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Miami Dolphins Keep Longtime Seamstress Busy throughout Football Season.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, August, 2003
By Michelle Kaufman, The Miami Herald Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Aug. 19--When Anna Starfas plops down on her sofa to watch a Miami Dolphins game, she is interested in one and only one statistic: jersey holes.
"Whenever there's a fight, and they start pulling on each other, I tell my husband, 'Uh-oh, another hole, more business," Starfas said. "The days after Dolphins games are my busiest days."
Starfas has been the Dolphins' seamstress for the past decade, and makes a good chunk of her living darning jersey holes, stitching on names and numbers, shortening football pants, customizing jersey sleeves and tails, and satisfying every uniform need of finicky Dolphins e...uipment manager Tony Egues. Starfas also works for the...
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