Extra Points Archives: Ultimate Defense
Posted Sep 10, 2009
The lighting on this late afternoon in November lends a surreal quality to the image that shows Brian Simmons, Kivuusama Mays, Greg Ellis, Vonnie Holliday, Russell Davis, Keith Newman and Omar Brown. The players are bathed in darkness, the sunlight awash on the far grandstand, and no faces are visible, even up close in an enlarged version. Opposing offenses ventured into the dark hole of this defense and never came out alive.
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