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Longshoremen · week 1 · 2022

152 yards, and a road nobody would recommend

Chip Nutbeam, hot take

Trip Iverson QB
Longshoremen

Trip Iverson had 152 yards. He was drafted late, on the strength of one game nobody else watched. Two of them found the end zone, in game 1 of his season. It counts the same as anybody else's.

Across fourteen seasons: 26,223 yards from scrimmage, 378 touchdowns, 231 games. There was a 3,035-yard year in there. This is not it.

He turned thirty-six this year. He is from Cattaraugus Falls, New York. Ask anybody: he talks constantly and means about half of it.

The club is 0-1. Zane Merritt II is in year seven of it. The contract runs out in the spring.

He reads on the team plane, actual books, which his teammates find hilarious, and always has.

This feature ran in the paper in week 1 of 2022. The rest of the season is there too.

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