Gridiron.

Firebrands · week 8 · 1981

42 touchdowns and counting

Chip Nutbeam, hot take

Klaus Zimmer TE
Firebrands

H. Whistleman TO Klaus Zimmer. AGAIN. That is 42 of them now. They have played 8 games together this season alone. It is the simplest thing this offence does and the hardest to stop.

Across five seasons: 4,211 yards from scrimmage, forty-eight touchdowns, eighty-two games. His best was 1,426. This is not that, yet. Two of those shirts belong to somebody else now.

He is twenty-seven, out of Lagos, Nigeria. Ask anybody: he keeps his own counsel and his own hours. He was drafted on a medical gamble that three clubs would not take.

The club is 5-3. Crash Cavanaugh is in year four of it.

He eats the same breakfast every game day and will not discuss it, and always has.

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