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The Toboggans · week 17 · 2015

S. Okonkwo and Skip Morrow do the only thing they do

Chip Nutbeam, hot take

Skip Morrow TE
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S. Okonkwo threw 2 touchdowns to Skip Morrow, who has now caught 80 from him. They have played 13 games together this season alone. It is the simplest thing this offence does and the hardest to stop.

He has 8,242 yards from scrimmage in thirteen seasons, and eighty touchdowns. There was a 1,068-yard year in there. This is not it.

He is thirty-three, out of Two Rivers, Michigan. Around the building he says almost nothing and is listened to anyway. Nobody planned any of it. He was the son of a man who played eleven years at the same position. Before any of it he kept bees.

The club is 9-7. Slippery Massengale is new. The contract runs out in the spring.

Has never once been photographed smiling on a sideline.

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