Hail, to our Thornwood High...

Hail to our Thunderbirds! Hail to the Blue and Gold! With Strength, We Will Fight, Fight, Fight, Fight!

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My high school -- opened in 1971 in South Holland, IL under the helm of a Michigan man, Doc Mitchell -- adopted the Michigan colors and adapted the Michigan fight song for the new school. I went to Northwestern ("Hail to Purple, Hail to White, Hail to Thee, Northwestern...") for j-school*, and Wisconsin (audible screeech: "Jump, Jump...Jump Around!)  for law school).

Thornwood, set to Michigan's melody, had the best song:. "With strength, we will fight, fight, fight, fight...!" 

Four quarters worth.

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* We threw marshmallows in the stands to encourage our NU players back then, proudly not a MooU football school, and chanted after every loss (not me! I was appalled...), "That's all right! That's okay! Y'all be working for us someday!"

** Never went to a UW football game. I was older then, lived in the Greensbush neighborhood adjacent to Camp Randall, and chose to escape to northwestern Wisconsin on gamedays when the police and security let the drunks have full run of the streets and lawns from sunup to sundown. Not impressed by Madison much. 

Evanston was more a university town near a major city, not a College Town in cow country like Bloomington, Champaign-Urbana, Madison (state capitol, but still... politicians and students, not the brightest brains in the box) or wherever Iowa is.

Go Blue. Beat Big Red!

Halftime Update:. 14 - 13 Michigan. Two more quarters to fight... Keep the foot on the gas, and keep your head in the game.  The bigger they are, the harder they fall