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Roughnecks · Wild Card · 1985

24-10, and the bracket is a mess

Chip Nutbeam, hot take

Roughnecks

Seeds are a way of guessing, and this is what guessing looks like: 24-10. The Roughnecks were the sixth seed and spent the whole week being told what was about to happen to them. They led from the second quarter and were never seriously asked about it again.

This story ran on the wire in Wild Card of 1985. The rest of the season is in the paper.

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