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NOTES FROM A KEEPER
 The Uzo Ups and Diamond White Downs of Life as a Keeper Leaguer
by Michael E Lawrence
15/10/2007
Speed kills, according to the road safety ads, and if the Holybourne Prophets were a car, there’d be dismembered lollipop ladies and splattered green cross code men all over the road.
Such is the carnage, the joy, the littlest, swiftest Prophets of all Steve Smith and Wes Welker afforded me on Sunday with their 260 yards and 3 touchdown catches between them.
Aw, but did you see them run? They were like meteors out there, time and space rearranged in their wake.
So caught up was I in the smurf-speed continuum on the weekend, I even started Ted Ginn on a whim. And of course, he only went and returned a kickoff for a touchdown himself (though, through no fault of his own, it was called back).
And I, Papa Smurf on the sidelines, couldn’t have been more delighted.
Couldn’t have been more delighted because, on balance, my vertically adept though vertically challenged pass catchers have been a letdown this season, typically getting into far more scrapes than they’ve got into end zones.
Don’t even get me started on the week I had to bail out Clayton and Evans when they were ID’d trying to buy cigarettes down the local Costcutter.
You should be ashamed, the lady behind the counter said to me, two little lads like that asking for cigarettes. I smiled meekly and shunted them into the car with a clip round the head.
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Nearing the halfway point then 6 games through the 13 game regular season and the Prophets are .500: three wins, three losses precisely.
Not great, but with the league’s third highest points-for total we’re scoring a tonne, which can only mean good things down the stretch. More than that, the Prophets finally have Stars in their Eyes.
This year, Matthew, Tony Romo has become Brett Favre; Ronnie Brown has become LaDainian Tomlinson; Dallas Clark has become Shannon Sharpe; Steve Smith, like I say, has, thank God, become Steve Smith.
Each of them, as things stand, is on course for career years.
And like Dick Vermeil picking out a chick flick in Blockbuster, just the thought of it makes me cry.
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