A Notre Dame Football Blog
Yes, New Mexico is tomorrow and Georgia is imminent, but it's never too early to due your duty as a Notre Dame football fan and prepare to troll Michigan in their own back yard. With that in mind, I'm happy to announce that I've whipped up one of our favorite moments in our series of mutual hatred and put it in our store: #RememberTheSix. Gone, but never forgotten are those six points that Elijah Shumate had to close out the 2014 tilt in wish the Irish won 37-0. Also never forgotten, ...
Under a blue-gray sky, the flags of the HLS Cotton Bowl Tailgate flew.
I think it's safe to say that I've traveled a rather unique path. Growing up in the Dallas area, the Cowboys were, and still are king. Doubly so in my family. Exhibit A, this is my grandpa: https://twitter.com/ndtex/status/1143173452033089536?s=20 My grandpa loved the Cowboys. He picked out his casket solely based on which one looked closest to Cowboys blue (and, in perfect irony, the casket had eagles on it). Complete strangers would become his best friend if they mentioned they were ...
via GIPHY Did I ever introduce myself the first time? I'm a placeholder persona for the zany intersection of the general college football landscape and the very particular ethos residing under the Golden Dome. My first act on this glorious site stemmed from the belief that Twitter was the World's Best Sports Bar and sent #HLSrecap careening down the tracks to a land of lost productivity. To paraphrase the sage football pundit Ron Burgundy, "Sixty percent of the time, I'm serious every ...
What, your copy of NCAA '14 looks different?
Last year, I decided that the HLS Podcast needed to do something different to differentiate Shane & I from the crowd. The first phase of this was establishing a Twitch channel. I saw the live-streaming platform branching out into non-gaming endeavors like the NBA G-League and even Pro Wrestling. So why not college football? I'm definitely not the only one that felt this way as a certain society of banners recently did the same thing. While I'm not sure if we were the first college ...
Some people were born Notre Dame fans. They were bathed in the light of the golden years. Tanned and bronzed from the championships, the Heismans, and the fact that they are somewhere around 178 years old. I am not one of those children of the summer. Indeed, if I reflect back, I have a difficult time pinpointing the moment I became an Irish fan. There’s no obvious reason for it. I am a born and raised southerner. My parents are from the northeast. Sure, they’re Catholic, but my Dad’s a BC ...
Back in 2011, when I was pinged to write for HLS, I never imagined running the whole thing. Nor could I have envisioned still doing it seven years, a marriage, and two kids later (trust me, I've tried to quit twice). Yet here I still am and here we still stand since 2006. This latest iteration of HLS has by far been my favorite. Granted, we post less now. Our desire is to keep this at an obsessive hobby level so we don't lose our day jobs, family life, and sanity. However, that doesn't mean ...
We’re BAAAAAAAAAAACK! HLS Peeps, its Throwback Week. Wherein Domer.MQ (AKA IDTHEMIKE) and I, The (one and only) Biscuit get back into things. For 1 week. Seriously. For 1 week. No longer. Sad? Sorry. All we can do. DEAL WITH IT DEAR READERS. DEEEEEEAL. So, what’s going on here? Well, MQ and I one night, drunkenly, thought this would be good to do during the season. Then the season passed. And we kept winning. And winning. And winning. And we kept not writing, not writing, and not writing. ...
A Notre Dame player holds up their helmet before the Notre Dame-Michigan State football game Sept. 17, 2016 at Notre Dame Stadium in South Bend. South Bend Tribune Photo/MICHAEL CATERINA
Friends and Countrypersons! Tis I, The Biz-kit! I LIVE! And I auction. Here it is folks, the annual auction to benefit the general scholarship fund. This year we have a killer slate of killer tickets to get your charitable juices flowing. Per usual it's a silent auction with the winning bid getting the tickets and the profits going to ND. Win Win and (hopefully) WIN! Especially over the Skunkbears and the Trees, which are the two games we have this year. So, here are the rules. 1. ...
Loyal Readers, you might have noticed that Jude, aka andrewwinn, has taken a new gig over at One Foot Down. His first post has something to do about the strangest version of The Book of Mormon ever, so be sure to check it out. All of us at HLS want to wish Jude well and thank him for the incredible amount of work that he's done here at HLS. Now, if you're thinking some kind of blog drama or blog war is brewing, I hate to disappoint you. Biscuit might be building a Death Star of dancing ...
Loyal readers and listeners, we made it through another long annual slog that is the college football offseason. College football is here, our first football Saturday is around the corner and Notre Dame will kickoff the evening after. Actual. Football! And here at HLS, we will be able to do so in a new home as my long-awaited redesign is finally complete. I'll still be tinkering here and there with some features as this is by no means complete; however, the meat and potatoes is all on your ...