A Cheer that Rings through the yEars

      Sports seasons overlap and merge with one another; high school, college, professional sports; women's sports, men's sports, kids' sports.  In thinking how most of them have cheer leaders, and the crazy yells and songs you and I may have given voice to in our lives supporting one team or another, I recalled what our St. Paul Central High cheer leaders came up with in a frivolous mood and which they couldn't help sharing with our student body at an assembly:


               We may lose one,
               We may lose two,
               We may lose three,

               Tee-He-He


We laughed.  That little "cheer" was supposed to die right there.  But it was too catchy and cute and satiric, and we students wouldn't let a game go by without voicing a rendition or two of it.