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Get Color TV Games in Your Stocking...

As football fans, we appreciate having the broadcasts of our favorite games in color to enjoy the vivid...

Orville Mulligan: Sports Writer
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"Get Color TV Games in Your Stocking This Year"

Last updated 📅 2025-04-01

As football fans, we appreciate having the broadcasts of our favorite games in color to enjoy the vivid colors and pageantry of the gridiron.

With this being April Fool's Day and all I want to share with you a great prank completed back in 1962 from hoaxes.org, from Sweden's only television network Sweden's SVT (Sveriges Television) brought their technical expert, Kjell Stensson, on to the news to inform the public that, thanks to a new technology, viewers could convert their existing sets to display color reception.

At the time, there was only one TV channel in Sweden, and it broadcast in black and white, so this was big news. Stensson explained that all viewers had to do was pull a nylon stocking over their TV screen, and the mesh would cause the light to bend so that the image appeared in color.

He proceeded to demonstrate the process, and thousands of people were taken in. Many Swedes today still report remembering their fathers rushing through the house trying to find stockings to place over the TV set. Regular color broadcasts only commenced in Sweden on April 1, 1970.

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"April 1 Football History"

In this episode of the Football History Headlines, we discuss a couple of April Fools Day Pranks and celebrate Doc Alexander, Carlos Alvarez and more as well as many more Pro and College Football Hall of Fame legendary stories.
April 1st, a date often synonymous with lighthearted pranks, also holds a few notable, if less earth-shattering, moments in American football history. While not a prime time for major league decisions or game action, the date has occasionally marked significant player movements and organizational shifts. For instance, early franchise relocations or the formalization of coaching hires might have been announced on this date, often after the flurry of the main offseason had begun to settle. Enjoy the Gridiron Each and Every day! In this episode of the Football History Headlines, we discuss a couple of April Fools Day Pranks and celebrate Doc Alexander, Carlos Alvarez and more as well as many more Pro and College Football Hall of Fame legendary stories...

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We invite you to take a ride through 1920's sports history in the audio drama that takes the listener through the sounds and legendary events of the era through the eyes of a young newspaper journalist. You will feel like you were there! Brought to you by Number 80 Productions and Pigskin Dispatch _________________________

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