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Pikemen · week 7 · 1980

The long way round: L. Klopstock goes for 174

Hal Vandergrift, veteran beat

Lamar Klopstock QB
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I have been doing this long enough to have written off men like L. Klopstock, who was drafted late, on the strength of one game nobody else watched. 174 yards is the league's way of saying nothing is settled. Two of them found the end zone, in game 7 of his season. The ones who arrive like this tend to know what it cost. That is usually worth something in December.

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