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Prospectors · week 8 · 1979

116 yards, and a road nobody would recommend

Hal Vandergrift, veteran beat

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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 reads on the team plane, actual books, which his teammates find hilarious, which his teammates have stopped remarking on. It counts the same as anybody else's.

This story ran on the wire in week 8 of 1979. The rest of the season is in the paper.

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