Gridiron.

Nightshift · week 17 · 1982

36 touchdowns and counting

Hal Vandergrift, veteran beat

Silas Ellery TE
Nightshift

G. Fourthquarter Jr. threw 2 touchdowns to Silas Ellery, who has now caught 36 from him. They have played 14 games together this season alone. One of them will leave first. They always do.

He has 4,151 yards from scrimmage in six seasons, and thirty-six touchdowns. His best was 902. This is not that, yet.

He is twenty-nine, out of Verdigris, Kansas. Ask anybody: he is the one the young players actually ask. The route here: converted from linebacker in his second professional season.

Nightshift, 9-7, and seventeen weeks gone. Meatball Speight is new.

Ellery learned to cook properly during a rehab year and now does it for the offensive line.

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