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All Hail Your #HLSRecapMadness Champ, @bridgetgoirish!

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HLSRecapCongratulations to Bridget (@bridgetgoirish), who has won the 2016 #HLSRecapMadness tournament and is the recipient of the coveted #HLSRecap #DammitPoot Memorial Trophy.

Bridget’s winning tweet, to me, encapsulates #NDFB Twitter perfectly. It’s demonstrates a passion for cheering on our football team, but also our fondness for drinking copious amounts of adult beverages in the process.

As Bridget progressed, she had to explain to her non-football-loving husband about #HLSRecapMadness (imagine that conversation), which surprised him since HE APPARENTLY DIDN’T KNOW SHE WAS ON TWITTER! We also want to give a special shout-out to Bridget’s mom, who was talking up Her Loyal Sons in her beauty shop.

We wrote about Bridget and her tweet during the Final Four round, which we’ll reprint below the winning tweet. We want to thank each and every one of you who cast a vote through our six rounds of madness. It was a lot of fun!

YOUR #HLSRECAPMADNESS TOP TWEET OF 2015 FOOTBALL SEASON

@bridgetgoirish – Winner of Puns/WTF Region & National Semi-Final #2

  • beat @The_Durf, 28-21 (57% to 43%) in Round 1;
  • beat @PeteSampson_, 12-6 (67% to 33%) in Round 2;
  • beat @PDXIrish, 33-20 (62% to 38%) in Sweet 16
  • beat @TomFornelli, 27-14 (66% to 33%) in Elite 8
  • beat @CBusIrish, 78-45 (63% to 37%) in Final 4
  • beat @SupermanTDJesus, 61-17 (78% to 22%) in the National Championship

Hometown: No one will know where it is so I will just say, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania- home of Yuengling beer and the birthplace of Muffet McGraw.
Current City: Nashville, TN
Preferred Smartphone/Twitter application: the generic twitter app, but I’m open to suggestions!
Started tweeting: I Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind-ed that season and the months that followed, so I don’t remember a lot. Also, as you can see from my tweet, I like to drink.

At what point in the season did you write your tweet?

Bridget: It was during the UMass game. I’d been wanting to do something with the Victory March for quite some time, and it came to me like a blessing from Heaven.

Where were you, and what were the circumstances/feelings surrounding your tweet?

Bridget: Everyone was touting it an “easy game” and I honestly would worry if my office put together a pickup team and played Notre Dame. I can’t remember the exact circumstances, except Notre Dame, Notre Damed.

What would this #HLSRecapMadness victory mean to you?

Bridget: The only thing that would mean more would be never hearing a Manti Teo joke ever again.

Who helped you along the way to Twitter greatness?

Bridget: You are my biggest supporter, Jude. [Ed. note: It’s cause you’re funny!] When I miss football season I read old HLS recaps and they still crack me up in my cube. And what are you supposed to say to that? “Oh sorry, just laughing at a joke from when ND played Stanford in 2013?”

How does Twitter enhance your gameday experience (or does it)?

Bridget: Because I married someone who couldn’t care less about sports in general, my family who does care is far away from me, and going to a sports bar is out of the question because I live in SEC Country, Twitter is my lifeline during football season. I don’t know how I ever survived without it!

Growing up, when did you first realize you wanted to be #HLSRecapMadness Champion?

Bridget: I can’t remember a time I didn’t want to be #HLSRecapMadness Champion. I think that’s what I said I wanted to be when I grew up at Kindergarten graduation.

Where do you find your inspiration?

Bridget: @PDXIrish is the funniest person on twitter. I fan girl on her hard. I told her when my tweet was up against hers in a previous round that I felt like Coach Brey playing Coach K.

Aside from the remaining finalists, who would you consider your Twitter nemesis?

Bridget: I recently got a tweet from a Tennessee fan I never met, telling me to get back to the kitchen.

Where do you go from here? Will you turn professional?

Bridget: I am thinking we all need a reality show, perhaps “A Season With #NDTwitter.”

Anything else?

Bridget: I invited Brian Kelly to my wedding. He couldn’t make it, but did RSVP rather quickly.

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