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The Fighting Ostriches · week 10 · 2014

The old man can still play

Hal Vandergrift, veteran beat

Corey Brinkerhoff TE
The Fighting Ostriches

C. Brinkerhoff is 39. He has played 251 professional games. He is averaging 13.0 a week and shows no sign of stopping, which is not how this usually goes. He reads Fragile, which makes the mileage harder to explain, not easier. It ends for all of them. Not this year.

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