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 ...
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He Gets Paid For This? Seriously?
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 ...
ESPN.com Publishes “Dead Men Walking” Piece. Omits Joe Paterno. CFB World Confused.
What? Too easy? JoePa is helped up after reautomation software fails. ...
…make it Suntory time.
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 ...
2006 Her Loyal Sons Expert Picks: Week 1
If you wanna know the rules, they're here. 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. ...
The Herbies Are Here!
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 ...
The Shark for Heisman
Showing what's possible when seemingly impossible physical abilty, genius play-calling, national media attention, angry music, and a really, really big TiVo hard drive come together, the folks at Dietler.net present the first installment of the Grass Roots Campaign for The Shark for Heisman: [youtube]SK1H-DuFERo[/youtube] Click Here If You Can't See the Vid. Man, those defensive backfields must've really sucked. Yeah. All of them. Bonus Points for making Ty Willingham sounds like a ...
Her Loyal Infants
The folks over at Team Baby Entertainment have answered that age-old question - What happens when you mash "Baby Einstein" with "Rudy"? Well apparently Baby Irish is born. The company describes it best: "Baby Irish uses officially licensed footage of Notre Dame sports, mascot, marching band, and campus attractions to expose children to the University of Notre Dame in an exciting and playful manner. "Raising Tomorrow's NDTM Fan Today" features the music of The Band of the Fighting Irish as ...
Simply, Lou Was Awesome
ndolttown wowed me and other folks at NDNation with his latest post, and I'm saving the content here for posterity. Summary: Lou Holtz OWNED College Football: Thesis: From 1987 to 1993 Lou Holtz won more big games than any coach in history in a similar period of time and more big games than many of the top coaches in history ever did. It is a remarkable and, I would guess, unequalled record of victories over top competition in the history of CFB. In that seven-year period, Holtz beat ...
2006 Freshmen Will Not Win American Idol
Can't Help ND Win a MNC The rookie sqaud of the University of Notre Dame's 2006 inevitable champions Football Team apparently can't carry a tune. Charlie says he'll have the group lead the rest of the team in singing the "Fight Song", whatever that is, in the near future. In reading the article, it would seem the eventual goal is to get the rookies comfortable with singing the Victory March. Perhaps this is another one of those clever messages Charlie likes to send the team by referring to ...