By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia In 1965, after beginning his officiating career working college games in the San Francisco Bay Area, the NFL hired Burl Toler as a head linesman — making him the first Black official in any major professional sports league. Toler, who died in 2009 at the […]
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