“What’s black and white and never right?”

In the early days of football, the referees wore white shirts with bowties. But often, so did the players. (White shirts, not the bowties.) In a game in 1920, a quarterback passed the ball to a referee, Lloyd Olds, thinking he was a running back. Olds went to friend who ran a sport shop and asked him to make a shirt that would make the referee unmistakable on the gridiron. Olds never caught another pass but he made referees unmistakably visual.

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Steve Levi is an Alaskan writer who specializes in the Alaska Gold Rush (nonfiction) and the ‘impossible crime,’ (fiction.) An ‘impossible crime’ is one where the detective must figure out HOW the crime was committed before going after the perpetrators – like a Greyhound bus with bank robbers and hostages disappearing off the Golden Gate Bridge –THE MATTER OF THE VANISHING GREYHOUND. Steve’s books can be found at www.authormasterminds.com/steve-levi

“What’s black and white and never right?”

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