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Nightshift · week 1 · 2006

The long way round: P. Northcutt goes for 143

Hal Vandergrift, veteran beat

Pinky Northcutt QB
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I have been doing this long enough to have written off men like P. Northcutt, who was signed off a practice squad in November and never gave the job back. 143 yards is the league's way of saying nothing is settled. He calls his grandmother before every game and after every loss, which his teammates have stopped remarking on. It counts the same as anybody else's.

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