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Old Mon Aug 17, 2009, 07:30pm
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Originally Posted by Ref Ump Welsch View Post
If anyone on this board was around back then, he would remember red flags instead of yellow ones, and flags in the end zone instead of pylons, and...oh yeah, the goal posts on the goal line instead of the end line. Yes, a little history freak here.
...and no stripes on the socks and the wings "punching in" the TD and 4-man or 3-man crews and down boxes that were really boxes with a number on each of the 4 sides. I remember the goal posts on the GL for NFL but not FED ball. Maybe I am not old enough.

I contend that red flags would be better on dry fields late in the fall for afternoon games.
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