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The Porterhouse · week 9 · 2009

209 yards, and a road nobody would recommend

Ruth Fairbanks, features

Rudy Danforth Jr. RB
The Porterhouse

There is a version of R. Danforth Jr.'s life where none of this happens. He was a basketball player until he was twenty, and it still shows. Instead: 209 yards. He carries a chess set on the road and beats everyone, which his teammates have stopped remarking on. It counts the same as anybody else's.

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