Gridiron.

Anvils · week 8 · 1979

3 games out, 41.1 points in

P.J. Thorne, injury desk

Brandon Rowntree RB
Anvils

Brandon Rowntree returned from an MCL and put up 41.1 points.

Across three seasons: 4,987 yards from scrimmage, twenty-five touchdowns, forty-six games. His best was 2,338. This is not that, yet. He has done it in two buildings.

Baltimore, Maryland is where he is from. He is thirty. He is the one the young players actually ask. Nobody planned any of it. He was drafted late, on the strength of one game nobody else watched.

Anvils are 6-2 through eight weeks. Lamar Norwood is new. There is one year left on the deal.

One more thing: he carries a chess set on the road and beats everyone.

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