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Old Wed Dec 03, 2014, 06:38pm
Mark T. DeNucci, Sr. Mark T. DeNucci, Sr. is offline
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Originally Posted by JRutledge View Post
I have not seen a Byron collar shirt in probably nearly 17 years or so.

Peace

Jeff:

About three years before the NHFS went to the V-neck, the OhioHSAA allowed each crew to determine which shirt it would wear for the game: V-Neck or Byron Collar. Almost immediately everybody went to the V-Neck. I would still carry both because the MichiganHSAA didn't go to the V-Neck until the NFHS did. Therefore, I would carry a Byron Collar shirt in my bag out of habit when doing a game in Ohio just in case my partner was still to cheap to buy a V-Neck shirt. And sure enough, I had the championship game of a girls' VAR holiday tournament, and sure enough my partner showed up with only a Byron Collar shirt. I offered him one of my extra V-Neck, but he refused because he did not intend to spend money on a shirt he was not going to wear. I asked him about the next school year when we could only wear the V-Neck, and he said that he would only buy a V-Neck if the State forced him too. We wore Byron Collars that night and I haven't worn one since.

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