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Entertainment & Sports

Sep. 28, 2006

Firing a One-Eyed Referee Can Cost More Than 15 Yards

FOCUS COLUMN - Justice should be blind, but what about NCAA football referees? Some fans might believe that blindness is a prerequisite to refereeing college football.


Focus Column

By John Lattin

     
      Justice should be blind, but what about NCAA football referees? Some fans might believe that blindness is a prerequisite to refereeing college football. But that is not the case in the Big Ten athletic conference On that playing field, partial blindness is grounds for termination, as evidenced by the case of James Filson, a one-eyed football referee who ...

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