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Umpire Skyler Johnson added, "Football, baseball - this should be in all sports. We needed our students to see there were officials that look like them on the field and they would get a fair shake," continued Breakfield. "They have done a bang-up job the first night and a bang-up job ever since."Īs they are all former athletes, being on the field is great, but they say it is an opportunity that has meaning for students as well.
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"I was more proud of them than they were," he said. Vernon Breakfield, Supervisor of Officials, says it was a day that was two years in the making. "The moment I put on these stripes, it was always the, 'What if, what does it look like, what it could be?' To be a part of what is now is an amazing accomplishment,'" added Fred Whitted, Back Judge, MFOA. White Hat Referee Darryl Moore added, "I was super proud when I got the call, to be a white hat of this crew. "Growing up where I came from, we didn't see a lot of people that looked like us on the field," said Ty Starks, Line Judge, MFOA. I would almost say it was our Jackie Robinson moment," said Sylvester Thomas, Head Linesman, Metro Football Officials Association (MFOA). "It was an exciting moment, groundbreaking - being the first. For the first time in NSAA history, an all-Black officiating crew worked together for a playoff semifinal football game.