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    Happy birthday to "Hook 'em" hand sign

    By Jim Nicar
    Jim Nicar
    Published: Nov. 11, 2010

    The “Hook ‘em, Horns” hand sign turns 55 years old today. How did our beloved and omnipresent hand sign come to be?

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      Dennis Roberts said on Sept. 12, 2011 at 11:19 a.m.
      Very interesting and timely Article. But I wonder if the author really knows how and where Henry Kirby Pitts originated the Hook'em Horn Sign? The article "H.K. Pitts Hook'em Horns Sign is 25" in the November/December 1980 issue of the Alcade has more details.
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      строительство said on Nov. 21, 2010 at 8:14 a.m.
      "In the 1950s, parades always preceded football rallies"