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Cannoneers · week 14 · 2008

Career day for Spencer Eakins: 404 yards

Hal Vandergrift, veteran beat

Spencer Eakins QB
Cannoneers

Spencer Eakins is 32 and has played 147 games. He had never had a day like this one: 404 yards, past his old best of 337. He is 32, which makes it more surprising, not less.

3,023 yards over ten seasons. Forty-five touchdowns. 123 games. He has never had a year like it. For two clubs.

He is from Phoenix, Arizona. Ask anybody: he talks constantly and means about half of it. The route here: converted from quarterback, which he was not good enough at.

Cannoneers are 8-5 through fourteen weeks. Mike Rowave is in year nine of it.

One more thing: he collects vinyl and is insufferable about it.

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