Timberjacks
Keegan Kowalczyk had 85 yards against the Roughnecks, who used to employ him. He would rather be almost anywhere else on a Tuesday, so nobody expects him to say much about it. The fixture comes round again next year.
Across thirteen seasons: 25,237 yards from scrimmage, 411 touchdowns, 234 games. His best was 2,607. This is not that, yet. He has done it in two buildings.
Thirty-four, and Auckland, New Zealand before that. The route here: a track man who was talked into it by a coach who never let go. In another life he kept bees.
Timberjacks are 8-3 through twelve weeks. Kellen Norwood is in year four of it. The contract runs out in the spring.
Kowalczyk is the last man off the field, every week, without exception.