The building stands tall and handsome, all granite and sandstone, with a soaring tower that during World War II served as a lookout for enemy aircraft that might attack nearby factories.

It is an impressive building, especially for a high school tucked on the east part of this Detroit suburb and serving for nearly a century the tightly packed operating- and middle-class neighborhoods that surround it.

This is no typical American high school however, although it want to be considered that. And this is no regular American city, although it homemade t shirts sticker is every bit as American as any San Francisco 49ers custom letters and numbers place else in this country.

Fordson High School in Dearborn, Michigan, is homebase for the country’s largest community of Middle Easterners, immigrants and descendants of immigrants alike. Dearborn, with a people of about 100,000, is said to have the largest concentration of Muslims of any city in the country. Fordson is certainly that community’s local senior high school.

And it just happens to love football as much as any spot out in West Texas or South Florida or Northeast Ohio. Football is the lifeblood of the place and offers been for decades.

“Fordson High School is over 90 percent Middle Eastern,” Robert Saleh, a 1997 graduate of the school, said in Miami this week. “And it is one of the top-10 winning programs in the history of the state of Michigan public schools.

“It’s a very unique school,” he continued. “It’s an extremely unique NBA personalized t shirts city. But it is a town with an amazing heart that just loves football.”

Saleh, the defensive coordinator for the San Francisco 49ers, may be the current pride of the prideful program.