Jeff Burris joins our team as a Senior Defensive Analyst. '93 ND All-American First round draft pick 10 yrs in NFL pic.twitter.com/RTOxsez4mW — Notre Dame Football (@NDFootball) June 3, 2016 Head Football Coach Brian Kelly continues tweaking his staff. On June 3, the Irish announced the addition of All-American and 1993's MVP, Jeff Burris. Jeff joins the Irish from the Miami Dolphins. As a player, Jeff did it all: he returned punts, intercepted passes, and carried the ball at the ...
Playing Football in Baseball Stadiums is Awesome
Debate This is a recurring series on Her Loyal Sons in which two writers take opposing sides on a hot topic. Yesterday, you learned why playing football in a stadium designed for baseball is "dumb." Today, you learn why it's awesome. Many moons ago (these moons) (not that moons) (bless his heart), I wrote about the subway and the importance to the University of Notre Dame of its formative footballing years and how they helped build a national brand out of the little school on the shores of ...
That’s Bull: Texas to Trot Out New Mascot
If you predicted that Notre Dame would play Texas on a Sunday in prime time and that Texas would use the occasion to roll out the newest iteration of Bevo, their longhorn mascot, come collect your money. Yesterday, Texas announced that "Bevo XV" would make his debut against the Irish. He is evidently in training right now and the event is apparently the one hundredth year of Bevo-ness. Texas' television network, the Longhorn Network, "will commemorate the 100th anniversary and welcome Bevo XV ...
10,000 Days: Fighting… For Another Championship
Notre Dame football has not won a national championship in 10,000 days. Let that little factoid wash over you. Steph Curry, Rihanna, Adele, Haley Joel Osment, Emma Stone, and Michael Cera were all born the year the Irish last hoisted the crystal football, or whatever they hoisted back then. It was probably a rough-hewn marble tablet or something. Something sepia toned, and in the newsreels everyone moved too fast, and all the men wore hats. https://youtu.be/zVAhI0eSeCQ Vietnam is ...
Bryant Dead
In a terribly sad finale to yesterday's emotional pendulum, word is in from Florida that erstwhile Irish talent Greg Bryant passed from his wounds. He was 21 years old. ...
Greg Bryant Shot
Lord please hear our prayers for GB????????. We pray he will be okay. ???? — Nyles Morgan (@Obey_Pride) May 7, 2016 Sad news breaking today out of Florida, where former Irish athlete and four-star recruit from Delray Beach was discovered shot this morning in a car on I-95. According to reports, he is in critical condition and was the driver of the vehicle. Bryant is currently on the roster at UAB in Birmingham. ...
Holtz, Phelps, and Donald Trump
Did you happen to catch Lou Holtz's endorsement of Donald Trump earlier this week? The video, which runs about twenty seconds, has all the creepiness and poor production value of a North Korean political prisoner's "confession," and features our beloved seated on a padded chair in what appears to be someone's basement or, maybe, his dentist's office. Wearing slacks and what could be my father's old Notre Dame windbreaker, Lou endorses the Donald because he's played his golf course and stayed in ...
The Case for Brian Kelly…Grows Stronger
Corbett Family Head Football Coach Brian Kelly can look back on 2016 and enjoy the moment. With seven players selected in the most recent NFL draft, a solid recruiting class (ranked twelfth by Rivals, sixteenth by ESPN), and a ten-win season behind him, the case that Coach Kelly belongs in the pantheon with Lou and Ara and Knute has only gotten stronger. In addition to the seven drafted players, which included Notre Dame's highest pick since 1993, Ronnie Stanley, six players signed free agent ...
Dallas Cowboys Draft Jaylon Smith
Feel good story? Here it is. I mean, ignore that it's the Cowboys, but if you need an antidote to Tunsilpidity, you got Jaylon. Murder Train, Dallas station next!! https://youtu.be/dy5TimkM0bM ...
Texans Draft Will Fuller #21 Overall
How many times this season did Will Fuller amaze you? How many times did he save the season? Sixth-most touchdowns (13) in the nation last year, fourteenth-most receiving yards (1,145) and fifteenth-most yards per catch (20.5) and the best 40-time among the nation's wide receivers at the NFL Combine. Will Fuller, good luck, thank you, and go get paid. ...