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Roughnecks · week 16 · 2008

K. Kowalczyk was not supposed to be here

Ruth Fairbanks, features

Keegan Kowalczyk QB
Roughnecks

K. Kowalczyk had 170 yards. He was a track man who was talked into it by a coach who never let go. He is the last man off the field, every week, without exception, which his teammates have stopped remarking on. It is a long way from Auckland, New Zealand, and he did not come the easy way.

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