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Prospectors · week 7 · 1979

L. Bombardo finds it, in year 7

Hal Vandergrift, veteran beat

Lorenzo Bombardo WR
Prospectors

I have been doing this long enough to have written off men like L. Bombardo, who was found at a regional combine by a scout whose flight had been cancelled. 116 yards is the league's way of saying nothing is settled. He is 27, and he is the first man in the building most mornings. The ones who arrive like this tend to know what it cost. That is usually worth something in December.

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