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Old Sun Oct 07, 2012, 03:50pm
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I found this info on the net so it must be true. There was a HS and college football and basketball official in Michigan named Dr. Lloyd Olds. He, like other officials, would always wear a white shirt to games (some of them even wore neckties or bow ties). In 1920, he was working a college football game, wearing his white shirt as usual, and one of the quarterbacks handed off the ball to him during a play.

He realized he needed to change his "uniform". He asked a friend to make him a black and white striped shirt and he wore it to a state championship basketball game in 1921. The idea caught on and that's how the striped shirt became part of our uniform.





I'm still trying to find info on how we got the black and white striped thong.
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I'm still trying to find info on how we got the black and white striped thong.
..."we"... ? ? ?
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I'm sure Mark Sr will be by shortly to tell us how it was done back in the day!
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I'm sure Mark Sr will be by shortly to tel us how it was done back in the day!
You mean striped shirts, right? Not the striped "other things" mentioned above.......
BM, repeat after me: "Fight it. Fight the temptation. No. Don't post an image. Fight it. C'mon, it's the new me. Don't do it. Just say no. I can't do it. No, no, no. Get thee hence... There, that's better. Whew, that passed!"
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Old Sun Oct 07, 2012, 07:00pm
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Thong One And Thong Two ???
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BM, repeat after me: "Fight it. Fight the temptation. No. Don't post an image. Fight it. C'mon, it's the new me. Don't do it. Just say no. I can't do it. No, no, no. Get thee hence... There, that's better. Whew, that passed!"
What's a "thong"?
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I found this info on the net so it must be true.
Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth president of the United States, told us not to believe everything we read on the internet.
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What's a "thong"?
Atta boy! I'm proud of you and your bold restraint.
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Old Sun Oct 07, 2012, 08:52pm
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A melody as in: " I left my heart, in Than Franthithco."
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Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth president of the United States, told us not to believe everything we read on the internet.
Did you read that on the internet?
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Did you read that on the internet?
Of course. Where else would I find 100% accurate facts?
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