It's Christmas morning and Nero Alexander is celebrating the holidays in cold, snowy Yellowknife. He's disturbed from his morning irish coffee by a knock at the door. When he reaches the doorway, no one is there - just a very large package with a San Antonio shipping address. When he opens the package and looks inside, he is thrilled by the contents: a series of mementos from the S14 San Antonio Marshals. Evidently the former Marshals stadium has been demolished to build the world's largest Arbys, and thus everything in the stadium museum has to go.
Inside, he found:
Inside, he found:
- A pair of cleats from Morgan Marshall's monster 196 yard game against Kansas City
- A framed photo of the San Antonio defense celebrating in the end zone after Quenton Bode's 49 yard pick-six, also against Kansas City, signed by Bode himself.
- A laminated set of draft cards from the team's draft day that saw the legendary Fab V built.
- A used jockstrap that he immediately recognized as Cooter Bigsby's. The certificate of authenticity states that it's from the game against Portland that saw Cooter throw a pivotal pick on the 1 yard line to lose the game, but Nero knows better. It's from every game. Cooter doesn't change (or wash) his underwear.
- The jersey Nero was wearing when he recorded his first career tackle for loss, the first in a long career that has made him one of the most prolific behind-the-line-of-scrimmage tacklers in football history.
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