One of my readers recently sent an interesting query: What were the colors of Clarence Saunders’ football uniforms?
Now, if you don’t even know what I’m talking about, that hurts my feelings, because I’ve written many, many times in Memphis magazine about the semi-professional football team that the grocery store magnate fielded here in the 1920s. In fact, as recently as April, I mentioned it AGAIN, when I complained that his decision to turn down an offer to join the NFL was a really, really bad decision.
Here’s what I said, in our cover story called “April Fools” (go here if you want to read the whole thing.)