10. We’ve been graduating students since 1889.

9. We built this city.

8. We’re the largest school in McKinney by at least 30,000 square feet.

7. We don’t have a middle name. We are McKinney.

6. We threw the first forward pass in Texas high school football history.

5. The stadium is named after our coach, who, by the way, coached us to a state championship and two state runner-ups.

4. Our graduates include a congressman, PGA golfer, LPGA golfer, NASCAR driver, MLS soccer player, an Olympian, a producer of Mad Men and the lovely Mrs. Alyssa Boehringer.

3. We played the Chicago White Sox in 1928.

2. When Jamie Foxx played quarterback in high school, we beat him on his homecoming night.

1. We were Boyd before Boyd was Boyd.

Like U.S. congressman Sam Johnson said at the Mane Event last Sunday, “Who wouldn’t want  to go to this school?”