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Nightshift · week 2 · 1982

145 yards, and a road nobody would recommend

Dez Cruikshank, team beat

Simeon Boxwell WR
Nightshift

Simeon Boxwell was drafted late, on the strength of one game nobody else watched, and this club found him. 145 yards. Remember who was looking. He refuses to be taped by anybody but the same assistant trainer, which his teammates have stopped remarking on. It counts the same as anybody else's.

4,227 yards over three seasons. Twenty-four touchdowns. Fifty-four games. His best was 1,687. This is not that, yet.

Muddy Creek, Kentucky is where he is from. He is twenty-three. He is popular in a way that does not show up anywhere useful. In another life he worked the overnight shift at a grain elevator.

Nightshift are 1-1 through two weeks. Meatball Speight is new.

This feature ran in the paper in week 2 of 1982. The rest of the season is there too.

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