I'm Catholic and have always hated the Fighting Irish. Something about their smugness bothered me, plus there were like 5 local Catholic college around me which got more local press.
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And ND has always spurned overtures from the Big Ten about joining them for football, so while ND would play Michigan or MSU regularly, the rest of the conference's greatness went unrecognized.
Which is sort of a deal breaker for Hawkeye fans.
They seem excited for the game...
https://www.barstoolsports.com/chic...e-invitation-to-the-camping-worlddot-com-bowl
https://www.barstoolsports.com/chic...e-invitation-to-the-camping-worlddot-com-bowl
With the exception of the 2011 Game between FSU and ND, they average about 40,000, and it usually looks like lower bowl only. Might not be an official thing, but I think they only open up seating in the upper decks if warranted by selling out the lower bowl first? Just checked the CWB Ticket Site, and they are only selling lower bowl tickets at the moment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camping_World_Bowl
Hope I am wrong and that we set a cardinal and gold attendance record this year!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camping_World_Bowl
fyi: 2002 would have been an Iowa State year with a win over UConn! Worst loss in ISU history IMO.
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For some bizarre, unknown and mystical reason, Gonzaga hired Melissa Click after she was ejected from Mizzou. Gonzaga is a jesuit institution...or was, or pretends to be or whatever. Notre Dame also purports itself as a Catholic university. Just more FYI.
Confirmed true for last two years. Won't be surprised if they open it for us. It would be silly to sell just 40k or less tickets given demand from these two fan bases.
2018 WV v. Syracuse
2017 Va Tech v. Okie St.
Whenever I try to picture an arrogant, smug ND fan, I picture the kid who wrote the article. He looks like he drinks White Claw, smells like Axe body spray, and tries to slip roofies in drinks all night.
F those guys and the horse they rode in on. They can EABOD. Talk about entitlement. I bet they are anti-vaxxers.
The thing I remember the most from all of that was there were articles about it, and it was really hard to keep track of what exactly had gone on.
When I was a young kid kid growing up in eastern Iowa in the early 70’s, I used to watch ND replays on one of the Quad City stations on Sunday mornings. Now, this may seem like a big up to most of you, but this was huge for a football fan when there were only three channels. This was also before there were any NFL pregame shows.
Was a nice change of pace from the cartoons of Boras and Natasha, Go Go Gophers, Rocky and Bullwinkle, Peabody and Sherman...there were a couple others I am forgetting as the Sunday line up paled to Saturday cartoons.
Was a nice change of pace from the cartoons of Boras and Natasha, Go Go Gophers, Rocky and Bullwinkle, Peabody and Sherman...there were a couple others I am forgetting as the Sunday line up paled to Saturday cartoons.
There was one thing he said that I agree with...
"... and I am pretty sure Baylor should still be on probation until forever."
For some reason, this got me to thinking about carillons. Notre Dame claims to have the oldest in North America. Are there any older than Iowa State's besides Notre Dame?
The Bullwinkle the Moose Show was for adults...
edit: I remember those Sunday mornings very clearly. Bullwinkle was the last cartoon before we had to go to church. Ugh...
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The Cornell Chimes are from 1867.
Windsor Memorial (Cathedral Church of St. Paul) in Des Moines, 1896.
Church of the Holy Spirit on the campus of Kenyon College (Ohio), 1879.
There may be more.
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Notre Dame alumnus José Napoleón Duarte was once the head of a vicious military junta.
Former Notre Dame football player Joe Theisman changed the pronunciation of his last name from Theesman to Thizeman so that his name would rhyme with Heisman. He's also generally considered to be an insufferable douche. Because of this, many people aren't super upset that he suffered one of the most gruesome football injuries of all time.
They have a strictly enforced system of social rules called parietals. Even the name sounds like something from the dark ages.
You have to go back to how Catholics, and the Irish in particular, were discriminated against; that was a very real thing, and it kind of peaked in the 1920s. The Oregon School Law, the KKK, Al Smith, Vatican conspiracy theories, even up to JFK's election - this was all in the 20th century. Heck, even "Fighting Irish" is a negative stereotype, they just owned it.
So that's why some Irish and Catholics are fans of Notre Dame. It was something they could identify with and be proud of when they were still 2nd class citizens.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Catholicism_in_the_United_States
LOL. Thanks. When I opened the thread, I was really looking more for key players, offensive tendencies, defensive alignments, etc. etc., but I was way off. I'll do my own research.
