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It's Lieutenant. I'll wait in the hall.

Thanks, Lieutenant.

Why me?

Because it's a big story

and you're the best.

Thought you'd say it's 'cause I

have the best legs in the office.

No, Joe does.

Okay, Harvey, I'll make you a deal.

If I throw some facts together

about this Bombshell...

- Bullet.

- Bullet.

- And we chop down his apple tree...

- You get the assistant editor's desk.

Okay, Chief.

You get Mack's story, and

I'll get you your Bullet.

"The lone moment of glory

came in the 4th quarter,

"when Jimmy 'Dodge' Connelly

lateraled to Bakes Davis,

"who ran through a trio

of open-field tackles

"and into the Duluth end zone.

"And whereas the hotly disputed

contest will go down in the books

"as a Toledo victory, the hearts

and minds of all who witnessed

"the classic gridiron confrontation

were clearly won by the Duluth Bulldogs."

- Awfully good, Suds.

- Sure is a great thing to read, Suds.

When the muse strikes,

who am I to resist?

It's almost like you were

playing the game yourself.

What I try to achieve in my

prose is a sense of flight.

Now that's a crowd, ain't it, Dodge?

Sure is. We didn't have crowds

like that when I was in school.

You went to college?

- Colleges.

Waterford! Waterford next!

Waterford next!

Waterford!

Is that Big Gus Schiller?

- How you doing, boy?

- Hey, how you doing?

Here, get in this car.

Boys, I want you to be

meeting our newest player.

This is Big Gus Schiller

from Penrose High School.

Hi. How you doing? How's it going?

- So you're in high school, are you?

- Yeah.

Got held back, did you?

No.

Hey, kid, what position

did you play in high school?

Kicker.

- Kicker?

- What the hell?

Coach thought it'd be

the best position for me.

- Who's your coach?

- Math teacher.

Huddle up.

Hooked it.

God! Right in the...

Gus, look. You stand over here, next to

him, and you hit anybody that comes near him.

Anybody that comes near him!

Oh, I like him.

Dodge, I need to have a speech with you.

What do you mean folded?

Milwaukee can't fold.

They're broke, is what. Like

Akron. No money, no team.

We're broke, too.

- We're broke now? Our season just started!

- Look, we're broke, I'm telling you.

If you got no money to pay salaries,

no money to buy train tickets,

no money to rent a

field, then you're broke.

It's over, Dodge. It's time

to pack it up and go home.

The Starch King is gonna sell us

What's gonna happen to these guys?

I don't know.

And I thought the Milwaukee

game would turn it around,

what with Big Gus

coming on board for us.

Milwaukee got Joe Washburn

playing good, but...

Now there's no Milwaukee game.

It's finished.

Half these guys will probably

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