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Hellcats · week 16 · 2024

Turk Nakamura beats the Pikemen to it

Dez Cruikshank, team beat

Turk Nakamura QB
Hellcats

108 yards for Turk Nakamura, against the club that did not want him. We did. He is 36 now, which was most of the argument at the time. The fixture comes round again next year.

6,165 yards over eight seasons. Eighty-two touchdowns. Ninety-five games. His best was 2,070. This is not that, yet. Four clubs have had him.

He is from Verdigris, Kansas. He is unfailingly polite and completely unknowable. Nobody planned any of it. He was the younger brother of a player nobody in this league remembers.

Hellcats are 4-11 through sixteen weeks. Lorenzo Snodgrass is in year eleven of it. The contract runs out in the spring.

Nakamura calls his grandmother before every game and after every loss.

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