Comments on: Notre Dame’s Best Card To Play

By: Don Sullivan

Don Sullivan — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 02:39:06 +0000

I remember the days before the 1973 Sugar Bowl game. We were a heavy underdog to Alabama and a really dumb article appeared in the Times Picayune that talked about one of the Alabama lineman who had this persistent desire to stand on railroad tracks and take on a train. Well, in a way he did. We overcame those huge odds and won the game. The win was so big that it doesn’t even appear in Winston Groom’s wonderful book about Alabama football. This game won’t be in his next book either!

By: D'Omer 79

D'Omer 79 — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 23:50:49 +0000

Has anyone really thought about how this benefits when we ask the “haters” for 10 points? Hard for them to say “no.”

Like talking candy from a baby.

By: Terry

Terry — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 22:27:53 +0000

What is our best card? We have not seen ND’s best game. We’ve seen Alabama’s best and it’s pretty damn good, but we have NOT seen ND’s best, so we don’t know how good it is.

We’ll find out in 3 weeks.

Favor to ask – can we just drop that odious word ‘haters’ until at least after Christmas? We’re talking about a football game here.

By: Bobby Kool

Bobby Kool — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 21:06:23 +0000

No Respect – we have seen and heard it all season, from the sportswriters, from the AP poll and coaches poll seven games into the season. We were no higher than 5th!! Mark May, Herbstreit and Corso- still No Respect!! We beat Standford, USC on road, still NO Respect, we go to BCS National Title Bowl rated #1, still no respect buy the point spreaders?? I see 9, 9.5 and 10pt underdogs, and I ask say to myself, boy all those haters out there are gonna be sorry, when Kelly’s Heroes take the field on Jan. 7th, after they hear the pre-game speech by Lou as heard in the 2009 Japan Ole Timers bowl, “Men you will remember this game for the rest of your lives, you will tell your children about it, don’t go out there without leaving 100% effort on the field , and don’t go out with anything else but to DOMINATE”!!! Final score ND 23 Crimson Cryer’s 17

By: Big Red

Big Red — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 16:57:01 +0000

I think this team has been feeding on the underdog mentality all year. Pundits will write it off as a team “happy to be here” running into the juggernaut of a confident, well-oiled Alabama machine, but I don’t buy it. Maybe that’s the mentality for the fans, maybe it’s how the team felt after wins over Stanford (BYU letdown) and Oklahoma (Pitt letdown), but it is simply impossible that a Brian Kelly-coached team that has been the underdog all season, that has found itself in terrible holes to bad teams yet found the will to win, will not be singularly focused on the Alabama team that stands as the only obstacle between Notre Dame and that crystal football. They’ll be ready, they’ll be primed and prepared, and they’ll be hungry for a National Championship.

By: NDtex

NDtex — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 14:49:39 +0000

We also have some precedence from this season. ND was a 13-plus underdog to OU. Not only did they win, but they did what I dub a “double cover” and beat OU by 17.