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Anvils · the Iron Jug · 2019

Kowalczyk, 35, one afternoon from a third Iron Jug

Hal Vandergrift, veteran beat

Keegan Kowalczyk QB
Anvils

Keegan Kowalczyk already has two of these, won in 2006 and 2015. A man does not get to choose when the last one comes. At thirty-five he is playing like somebody who suspects this might be it. It did not, in the end, come down to him alone — it never does. But the Nightshift won it 23-20, and a fortnight from now nobody will be able to describe this season without describing Sunday.

This feature ran in the paper in the Iron Jug of 2019. The rest of the season is there too.

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