Michigan joins the rest of us

[Mark Padgett]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

Something told me this was coming.

Peace

You know me too well, buddy. I guess us Chicago boys can read each other's minds - such as they are. BTW - I think you said you grew up in "rural" Illinois. What HS did you attend? I went to Bloom in Chicago Heights. Our two most famous alumni (besides me, of course) are author and former major league World Series winner Jim Bouton and sports impresario Jerry Colangelo.

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by Mark Padgett

You know me too well, buddy. I guess us Chicago boys can read each other's minds - such as they are. BTW - I think you said you grew up in "rural" Illinois. What HS did you attend? I went to Bloom in Chicago Heights. Our two most famous alumni (besides me, of course) are author and former major league World Series winner Jim Bouton and sports impresario Jerry Colangelo.

I attended Macomb High School. We were called the Bombers because an alumnus was in the plane that dropped the Atomic Bomb (or one of) on Japan in WWII.

The college that I attended is the only one named the Leathernecks after the Marine Corp.

Now you are from the Washington area. A former Seattle Mariner was from my HS. Phil Bradley.

Peace

[Mark Padgett]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

I attended Macomb High School. We were called the Bombers because an alumnus was in the plane that dropped the Atomic Bomb (or one of) on Japan in WWII.

The college that I attended is the only one named the Leathernecks after the Marine Corp.

Now you are from the Washington area. A former Seattle Mariner was from my HS. Phil Bradley.

Peace

Thanks for the info. I see you went to Western Illinois. I had a girlfriend who went there (not you, of course). I went to Northern Illinois.

Also, please note that Oregonians do not consider themselves as being from (or in) the Washington area. In fact, when the Seahawks and Mariners were formed, there was a lot of resentment in this state when those teams assumed that fans in the Portland area would "automatically" support them because they were from the Pacific Northwest. Even now, there are probably more 49er fans around here than Seahawk fans (although the gap is getting smaller due to the Seahawks recent success) and tons of baseball fans support the Bay area teams, mostly the Giants.

Of course I am a White Sox and Bears fan.

[RookieDude]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

I attended Macomb High School. We were called the Bombers because an alumnus was in the plane that dropped the Atomic Bomb (or one of) on Japan in WWII.

Interesting JRut....one of the High Schools, here in the Tri-Cities, is called the Bombers. (Richland Bombers) The WWII Atomic Bomb was assembled at the nearby Hanford Federal Nuclear Reservation.