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The Fighting Ostriches · week 12 · 2017

156 against the club that let him go

Dez Cruikshank, team beat

Rudolph Uttermost TE
The Fighting Ostriches

156 yards for Rudolph Uttermost, against the club that did not want him. We did. He is 32 now, which was most of the argument at the time. The fixture comes round again next year.

Across ten seasons: 10,063 yards from scrimmage, 101 touchdowns, 172 games. There was a 1,229-yard year in there. This is not it. For two clubs.

He is from Kingston, Jamaica. Around the building he has never been described as easy to coach. The route here: cut twice before his twenty-fourth birthday. He was a competitive swimmer until his shoulders got too big, once.

The club is 9-2. Tomas Vinatieri is new. There is one year left on the deal.

He never takes his helmet off between series, and always has.

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