Gene Steratore is happy that he can see again. (USATSI)

You know that old joke about some witty soul from the stands of a football/baseball game who sees a referee/umpire make a call against that patron's team and yells out, "Yo ref/ump, do you need to borrow my glasses?"

Turns out referee Gene Steratore could have actually used the help in the first quarter of the Colts-Bengals game.

That's because the game had to be slightly delayed because Steratore was having contact lens issues.

As you can see here, via SB Nation:

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Here's hoping that once Steratore's vision was restored, nobody thought to play "Three Blind Mice." Because refs/umps tend not to like that.