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The Fighting Ostriches · week 13 · 2012

The long way round: T.X. Lattimore goes for 217

Chip Nutbeam, hot take

T.X. Lattimore QB
The Fighting Ostriches

T.X. Lattimore had 217 yards. He was the son of a man who played eleven years at the same position. He eats the same breakfast every game day and will not discuss it, which his teammates have stopped remarking on. It counts the same as anybody else's.

Across eight seasons: 7,666 yards from scrimmage, 125 touchdowns, 110 games. His best was 1,893. This is not that, yet. Three clubs have had him.

He is thirty, out of Sable, North Dakota. Around the building he runs hot, and everybody has decided to live with it.

The club is 7-5. Reuben Dupree is in year six of it.

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