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The Custodians · week 4 · 2009

The oldest trick this offence has

Hal Vandergrift, veteran beat

Isaiah Massengale TE
The Custodians

E. Vermicelli threw 2 touchdowns to Isaiah Massengale, who has now caught 30 from him. They have played 4 games together this season alone. It is the simplest thing this offence does and the hardest to stop.

Across fifteen seasons: 10,649 yards from scrimmage, 132 touchdowns, 259 games. There was a 1,179-yard year in there. This is not it. Four clubs have had him.

Thirty-six, and Auckland, New Zealand before that. Ask anybody: he is the first man in the building most mornings. Nobody planned any of it. He was a track man who was talked into it by a coach who never let go.

The Custodians, 2-2, and four weeks gone. Hutch Ellington is new. There is one year left on the deal.

Has a rule about not reading anything written about him, which he breaks.

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