[NU Sports] entertaining

[Jonathan Hodges]

If you are a red dye manufacturer, the Big Ten is now the place to be
(Nebraska, Wisconsin, Indiana, and Ohio State), although one must be careful
which exact shade to use and what to call it.

Jonathan

On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Mike Nolan <nolan at romaine.tssi.com> wrote:

> > I once was meeting a woman at the omaha airport (which I think is
> actually in iowa) and asked how I could find her and she said she would be
> the only one not wearing red.  Boy was she right !
>
> The Omaha Airport, Eppley Field, is part of Nebraska, but due to a shift
> in the Missouri river in 1877, the airport is surrounded by Iowa on
> three sides.  In an 1893 Supreme Court decision, the land where nearby
> Carter Lake IA is located was ruled to remain part of Iowa even though
> it is west of the current flow of the Missouri river.
>
> BTW, some years ago NBC ran a news magazine story called "If it is red,
> it will sell in Nebraska".  In it, several national retailers acknowledged
> that if they have an excess inventory of clothing in red, they will
> ship it to their Nebraska stores, where it will sell handily.
> --
> Mike Nolan
>
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