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INDIANAPOLIS – This Robert Mathis story starts in a northside coffee shop. Mathis wasn’t there. Part of me figures he’s never been there, or to any coffee shop — ever. Mathis doesn’t strike me as a coffee drinker, but if he is, surely he takes his coffee black like the cowboys and soldiers and other hard-ass characters from the movies.
Because Robert Mathis is a hard-ass character from the movies.
Which is why this story begins in a coffee shop. I’m there with Colts punter Pat McAfee — the coffee shop was his idea, I say with a smile — and we’re discussing his stand-up comedy debut in Carmel.