I Believe the Hawk Is Dead

Tonight, Temple's Men's Basketball played St. Joe's at home in the Liacouras Center. Their slogan, being the St. Joe's Hawks, is "The Hawk will never die." Accordingly, Temple's Wild Cherry fan section themed tonight, "The Hawk's Funeral." T-shirts were printed up, "RIP: The Hawk." Veils were given out, flowers, tissues. A cardboard coffin was crowd surfed down the student section while priests and nuns and people in suits mourned in the front rows. During the entrance of their team, the entire student section knelt and held their hands in prayer. Finally, once TU's victory was secured, our alum brought about the "I believe" chant to end with "I believe the hawk is dead." We went through three iterations of the cheering and jumping. It was marvelous.