Pikemen
Lamar Klopstock had 148 yards. He was drafted late, on the strength of one game nobody else watched. Out of Ives Polytechnic, which sends one of these to the league about once a decade. It counts the same as anybody else's.
16,453 yards over eight seasons. 256 touchdowns. 136 games. His best was 3,009. This is not that, yet. Two of those shirts belong to somebody else now.
He turned thirty-four this year. He is from Cork, Ireland. He is popular in a way that does not show up anywhere useful.
The club is 3-0. Emmett Quarles is new. The contract runs out in the spring.
He has never once been photographed smiling on a sideline, and always has.