Re: Was (is) Roy G. Biv a real person?

Kathy, you have asked a really curly one! It is not really a science question, 
more an historical/bibliographic one.

I think that most probably your father was pulling your leg. "Biv" does not 
appear at all as a surname in the telephone directory of my very large and 
cosmopolitan city, though "Biviano" is fairly common. If Biv is such an uncommon 
surname, the "Roy G" is most unlikely to go with it, unless Mr & Mrs Biv were 
having a deliberate joke with the naming of their child!

On a quick web search, there were only two things of vague relevance that I 
found. Bell Biv DeVoe is a personality in the Music/Cinema industry. And there 
was an oblique reference to Roy G Biv in a web page from a school discussion forum. 
The discussion was about Ellison's novel "The Invisible Man". Perhaps he has a 
fictional character called Roy G Biv?

The other possible source of information is in the archives of whatever football 
code you think your father would have had in mind. If there was a real person, 
you might well get a lead on him. But if there wasn't, you could waste an awful 
lot of time looking for something that simply isn't there!