Firebrands
O. Pennington threw 2 touchdowns to Deshawn Salter, who has now caught 30 from him. They have played 8 games together this season alone. One of them will leave first. They always do.
The ledger, after eight seasons: 6,889 yards, forty-one scores. He has never had a year like it. For two clubs.
He turned twenty-nine this year. He is from Grange, Illinois. He is unfailingly polite and completely unknowable. Nobody planned any of it. He was undrafted out of Dunbar Normal, signed the Tuesday after for the minimum.
Firebrands are 6-2 through nine weeks. Barney Grit is in year eight of it. There is one year left on the deal.
He has worn the same undershirt since his rookie year and had it repaired twice, and always has.