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The Fighting Ostriches · week 14 · 2009

Mateo Vanterpool is Zero Point Vanterpool now

Wendell Sowerbutts, notebook

Mateo Vanterpool RB
The Fighting Ostriches

Mateo Vanterpool is Zero Point Vanterpool from here on. He earned it for 9 straight weeks of nothing.

762 yards over his first season. Two touchdowns. Fifteen games.

Phoenix, Arizona is where he is from. He is twenty-two. Ask anybody: he says almost nothing and is listened to anyway. The route here: undrafted out of Sawtooth Junior, signed the Tuesday after for the minimum. Before any of it he was three credits short of a nursing degree.

The club is 11-2. Reuben Dupree is in year three of it.

Calls his grandmother before every game and after every loss.

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