Now do these guys suck or what? They take an article about the skyrocketing prices for hotels (set by hotels), tickets (set by scalpers since face value is reasonable at less than $60) and rooms for rent (set by individual owners, etc.) and imply that it's the football team's fault! I mean, take a look at the headline: Notre Dame Football Introduces Its Fans To Inflationary Spiral. The italics are mine. Really WSJ writers? Did Chuck Weis and Brady Quinn walk out to the fans and ...
Notre Dame Football
Penn State Fans: The True (and sad) Story
This is the headline to a recent column in the Penn State student newspaper: Season not over with loss to Irish For a second there, I thought it was next week's paper, with the inevitable outcome highlighted in the headline, published early. But actually, it's a current article in their STUDENT NEWSPAPER proclaiming that everything will be okay if/when PSU loses to the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame tomorrow. This, my friends, is the difference between the two schools' fans. PSU ...
Paterno: “Um, about that whole ‘discipline’ and ‘rules’ thing… F&%K It.”
Showing that even an undead, ancient relic can have a total disregard for his own rules and principles when they are no longer convenient, Joe Pa's gonna let BranDon "Big D" Snow play in this weekend's game with Notre Dame. No way their juggernautalicious rushing performance against the Zips has anything to do with this. Quoth the Penn State Scout site: "At Penn State Media Day in early August, Nittany Lion coach Joe Paterno said veteran fullback BranDon Snow would miss at least the team's ...
Dillon Pep Rally Tonight – Crackhead’s Revenge
Yes, the Pep Rally is back. And I'm sure it will be absurd. Such a great and time-honored tradition, the DPR was brought into the modern day by our own BadKermit when he came up with the idea of tying the theme to the Karate Kid and later, Back to the Future. The Observer has a pretty lame article about it here: ...
Crybaby Coaches, Media Cry Like Babies
Mike Jensen wrote an interesting piece for The National Philadelphia Inquirer. It appears that Coach Weis's "arrogance" is rubbing some people the wrong way. The media and opposing coaches must have preferred that guy who got fired for being black rather than inept Tyrone Willingham's cryptic press conference answers and "Want to get in a quick 18 holes with me?" personality. They probably also enjoyed hanging an easy 35-50 points on his teams. Hey, media and opposing coaches? We had a ...
The Snow Bowl
Courtesy of NDNation, here's a link to the legendary ND-PSU matchup lovingly dubbed "The Snow Bowl". It warms my heart to see The Bus bowling over PSU defenders, much like he did with my hometown team the World Champion Pittsburgh Steelers for years. This is a great highlight reel, taking you through all the key plays. A great way to waste 11:31 at work. http://dietler.net/nd/videos/quickplay/?video=snowbowl ...
Irish Football Podcast Aggregation…
Do you like college football blogs (of course)...do you like sports talk radio (check)...do you like Fighting Irish Football (hell yeah)??? Well my friend then your going to love this...the HLS team has created an aggregated feed for the top college football podcast (heavy on Irish Football of course). Here's the deal, there are quite a few don't miss CFB podcasts out there but you need to go around and subscribe individually to each one. Harnessing the power of Odeo the HLS team has created ...
Road Trip – Notre Dame
SI on Campus has an excellent article which lists many don't miss things to do while up in South Bend. Just like last week's "Notre Dame Glossary" we at HLS are suckers for this nostalgic Domer stuff. And now for a "man this is gonna date me" observation...it appears Heartland has been renamed to the even lamer Club Fever. Man, I sure hope Fat Shirley's has retained it's name. You know the drill...feel free to leave your own "Best Place to" additions in the comments section. Thanks to ...
I’m Guessing This Is Fake.
But it just seems too real. It has to be fake, right? [youtube]nI6hqtJWtOQ[/youtube] Nice Double-wide. ...
Laugh At the Old Guy (AKA the Joe Pa blooper reel)
It really is too easy to keep taking pot shots at ol' Joe Pa but I'll be damned if we don't keep finding good stuff. It's almost as this blog is writing itself. I'm now officially convinced this guy doesn't dress himself in the morning. [googlevideo]-1137447702280413132[/googlevideo] ...