View Single Post
  #8 (permalink)  
Old Thu Oct 04, 2012, 05:56pm
Robert Goodman Robert Goodman is offline
Official Forum Member
 
Join Date: Feb 2007
Posts: 2,891
Quote:
Originally Posted by bigjohn View Post
I had a middle school coach that called it the Gold Line! I once said coach you know it is Goal Line, right? He looked at me real weird and says, Why do you think they paint it GOLD!!! Some teams did use yellow lime for the Goal Line back in the 70s so he thought it was GOLD!!!
Hey, makes sense to me. The NASL had a "yellow line". Fed's proceedings during the 1940s included a proposal to rename the goal line since the goals had been moved to the end lines.
Reply With Quote