Well someone better contact Weis & Co. before they jump on that plane to Atlanta cause Mark Bradley over at the Atlanta Journal Constitution has called an upset in Saturday’s game before the game has even been played. And I thought we where the ones with the direct line to heaven. I’m ever so grateful for this notification as I might still have time to sell my tickets before the game.

Gotta love lines like this:

“One team that will play at Bobby Dodd Stadium on Saturday has demonstrated the capacity to beat strong opposition, and it isn’t Notre Dame. One team has proved it can stop a good offense, and it isn’t Notre Dame. One team seems equipped to win this hugely ballyhooed game, and it isn’t Notre Dame.”

Blah blah blah….Hmmm…so Utah must have had one hell of an offense in that there Emerald Bowl with that 38-10 routing they gave Tech (yes I know we lost our bowl game also…but what is Ohio State ranked again??). Yes GT likes to talk of their D but the reality is they need to play some O to win this game.

Well as Mark says…

“Come midnight Saturday, one team will have seized a famous victory”

….but I’m afraid it will be the Irish.

BONUS - don’t miss the comments in the article in which all the Georgia Dawg fans wet themselves crying about how overrated ND is. Whaa we don’t get enough media attention.

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John Walters apparently hired a really good intern. I suspect that intern is probably is a Domer. And that Domer wrote a fairly complete Notre Dame Glossary. I love glossaries (glossari? sp?). They remind me of 2nd grade, when I used to look up terms like “Glossary.”
Anyway, read and enjoy. It’s 8 minutes of fun as you relive your time on campus. Ok, for me is was about 20 minutes of fun. I read really slowly, which, of course, caused me lots of trouble as I tried to cram for tests because I didn’t study earlier. I had a lot of Jedi Knight to play! Ok!? Gosh.

I’m trying to think of some terms the intern venerable John Walters missed. Feel free to add your own terms in the comments section.

Editor’s Note: I’m a moron. John Walters IS a Domer. I hate myself so much right now. The strkiethroughs above were added after realizing that I’m not smart. Again.

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Austin Murphy, of CNNSI.com has written a piece of lazy sports journalism covering Irish Football. Nothing new there. I’m just gonna keep track of this stuff as the season goes one because it’s mind boggling that these guys get paid for this stuff.

Sure, it’s not as malicious as that piece done by 2 South Bend bumpkins in which they couldn’t confirm any of their freely thrown allegations (since they never did A) any research or B) any interviews with ND people), but it is very, very lazy.

Among the offenses of lazines:

“The sobering news for Georgia Tech is that Notre Dame’s secondary appears to its most improved unit.”

Poor Editing, Guys. Easy Pickin’s. But then there’s more…

“Seeing walk-on Travis Leitko toss aside his blocker and jolt the running back sideways in a drill called “Irish Eyes.” Roared Weis, “I keep noticing you, Leitko!” A week later, Leitko was one of four walk-ons awarded scholarships.”

Calling Leitko a walk-on is incredibly misleading. If you aren’t familiar with the story, read it. It’s not like you’d have to spend more than 5 minutes around the ND program before you’d catch wind of his story. Any effort whatsoever would have rectified this miscue.

While we’re at it, someone please tell me how this guy gets a job in sports. Answering mail. And blogging. For real money. Anybody. Can we really trust something so important as College Football to this man? Do you think he’s ever, in his entire life, worn a pair of cleats? Do you believe that any blisters he’s ever had in his entire life were not localized on his hands? CNNSI.com has the original Dungeons and Dragons player as a featured columnist for their College Football coverage. I’m going to go kick a dog now.

Has pictures of someone doing something.

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What? Too easy?

JoePa is helped up after reautomation software fails.

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Boosters of the Virginia Technical Institute Football Program are rushing to put together enough funds to mitigate the effects of a new “Fines for Flags” program put together by their Special Teams Coach/Head Coach Frank Beamer. Beamer intends to fine $100 dollars from a player’s bowl-stipend for every personal foul they draw. Beamer also intends to make the players run a 100 yard sprint for every yard of penalties for which that player is penalized. The VaTech Boosters have not released any information on a plan to either fund this program or figure out a way to get people to run penalty sprints by proxy.

We’re also hearing reports of a giant sigh of relief by a large portion of VaTech alumni who, on first reading reports of this program too quickly, dropped the “L” from the word “Flags.” Those sorts of things just aren’t talked about in Virginia, son.

This is clearly an attempt by Beamer to clean up the image of a program that was penalized 12 times for personal fouls in their first 2 games of the 2005 season. This may also be a ploy to curry the favor of empathetic game officials who could realize that penalizing a VaTech player could cost that player as much as 1/20th their weekly handouts/salary/bonus tuition financing.

No word yet on whether Beamer’s attempts to clean up the program will include suspension of his “Unending 2nd Chances” policy that allowed Marcus Vick to continue playing for VaTech until it was no longer convenient.

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BGS just reminded me of one of my favorite scenes from one of my favorite movies, so they get a plug here. After all, one of HLS’s top maxims is:

Any reference that reminds you of a movie that made you laugh a lot that in turn reminds you of Scarlett Johansson is a great reference.

So well done there, BGS.

Further, I’d like to pitch in and say that the video BGS links to really is the best press conference Charlie gave during the entire fall camp. The anticipation for Saturday night comes thru so thick in his voice, you could cut it with a knife and spread it on a bagel. (Mmmmm… That’s yeastastic.) I kept from watching it at first because it seemed the NDNation world was so amped by it, it had to be overblown. Sorta like when everyone says last night’s episode of Entourage was the best of the season, and then you watch it, and it’s just Vince acting like a little bitch again. But no, seriously, this installment rules. Catch it!

Hey, speaking of bitches…

You can see the video here if, for some reason, you don’t want to click the link to BGS. I dunno. Maybe one of them owes you money for that night in Thailand but you know you’ll never get it back because you can’t really bring it up in the civilized world.

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First, The Game: #2 Notre Dame at Georgia Tech.

The Uber-hyped Fighting Irish of Notre Dame bring Offensive Fireworks, a speedier defense (we hope), and Catholicism upon Hotlanta.  The line for this game has steadily shrunk from ND as heavy favorite to barely giving the Technical College Kids 3 points.

Next, The Other Big Game: #11 Florida State at #12 Miami

Almost guaranteed to provide several missed field goals by FSU, Miami, or both.  Certainly guaranteed to make viewers wonder what the heck Bobby Bowden actually does with his time since it can’t be coaching football.

And Finally, The Game Nobody Will Actually Watch: Marshall at #5 West Virginia

The first game in West Virginia’s vaunted “Toughest Schedule in the Nation,” Marshall, like all of WVU’s 2006 opponents will surely bend over test Coach Rich Rodriguez’s squad.

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Kirk Herbstreit, regarded by many within the NDNation global movement community as the only ESPN College Football Analyst who is not a muppet on crack, has awarded his 6th Annual Herbie Awards. In doing so he’s revealed an already assumed man-crush on Brady Quinn, provided further evidence about our suspicions in regard to the big smile he has on his face whenever he’s in SEC country, and placed himself right in the shotgun position for our soon-to-be formed Travis Thomas Ass Kicking Band Wagon.

Still, there are several key categories in which Notre Dame didn’t do so well, and so…

YOU’RE ON NOTICE!

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