Rick Sayles wrote:
 
> I'm a Maine fan and I attended the three overtime game between Maine and
> Michigan in Providence in 1995.  I was sitting near the Michigan pep
> band and had to endure six periods of "Hail to the Victors".  Maine has
> had great success against Michigan in the NCAA's beating them three
> times, so now I think of the tune as "saluting" the Victors - MAINE.
>
 
The words to that have been changed in away you can only appreciate if you
were here in FortWorth last night, straddling a hilltop between two
tornadoes, listening to your storm windows shatter and watching
tangelo-sized hail pound your back yard and the outdoor table with the big
maize and blue Block M.  It's now "Hail on the Victors Valiant".
 
Bob
 
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