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Piling on Notre Dame
Posted by Joel on December 31, 2007
Ah yes, one of my favorite teams reside in South Bend, Indiana. God’s chosen team is the University of Notre Dame. How do I know this??? Because the school has a huge painting of Jesus on the library directly behind the football stadium, so that He may see his favorite team play. It warms the heart when the school’s band plays the fight song. The school’s list of famous alums spans the entire spectrum of life, from Regis Philbin to Condoleeza Rice…
Screw this: NOTRE DAME SUCKS!!! Now where do I begin??? Let’s start with the mascot. The “Fightin’ Irish”. To symbolize the “spirit” of the fight, the school adopted a leprechaun to represent it. So let me get this straight: A mythical creature which obviously does not represent any Christian values is the symbol of a Catholic school. Do I just look at things in a weird way, because while I am no biblical scholar, I don’t recall any leprechauns in the word of God. When Daniel was thrown into the lion’s den, there weren’t any “fighting leprechauns” fending off dangerous felines. Can we say hypocrisy???
Now let’s talk about the overrated football program. This football program has been living off of championships won years ago. Lou Holtz won a title, which must have been divine intervention, but what have they done since??? The fact remains that the school’s boosters is the only reason that the school is even relevant today. Every year, the school is preseason top 25, simply because it is Notre Dame. Guess where the school will be ranked pre-season next year??? I am willing to bet a #4 combo from McDonald’s that Notre Dame will be there, despite only winning 3 games this year.
Now, this I know will stir the pot of Irish fans, but screw it: The Ty Willingham thing was just wrong. Now, before I get a bunch of hate from “Irish fans”, which “scares” me, I am not talking from a racial perspective. But every coach that they have had was given 5 years. Willingham wasn’t. True, he won early, but to let him go after a “subpar” year for Notre Dame was wrong. Even Gerry Faust got 5 years, but because your big money boosters gave Kevin White some heat, he caved under the pressure. So you went out and got Fat Boy, Charlie Weis.
Oh, who can forget the “Great Architect” of the Patriots offense during the Super Bowl years. The only problem was that Belichick wasn’t coming with him. So you won early, getting 2 BCS Bowl bids that you did not deserve. Let’s revisit those 2 Bowl games:
*Fiesta Bowl-Ohio State blew you out, just like Brent Musburger gave “courageous” Brady Quinn and his sister Laura virtual blowjobs on the air…
*Sugar Bowl-LSU completely dominated you as soon as they stepped off of the bus. It wasn’t even close. Does this look familiar???
And this year, some of the Notre Dame alums have the nerve to blame Willingham for this bad year. He didn’t recruit well enough some say. Well it is funny because they were winning with his recruits the past 2 years, and now because they are losing it is still Willingham’s fault. Whatever. What happened this year is that Fat Boy could not put together a good offensive plan, even though Fat Boy is supposed to be the offensive genius. By the way, we can tell how much the Patriots miss him, seeing as though they are still undefeated and this year have had the best statistical offensive season in NFL history. Fat Boy never did that. Interesting. Even more interesting is that Fat Boy has a worse record than Willingham at the same point of their time at Notre Dame.
So now Fat Boy has another top 10 recruiting class coming in. Why a recruit would go to Notre Dame when they can go to much better programs, like USC (the one that wins championships and has those nice Song Girls), Ohio State, LSU, Florida, or anywhere else, I have no idea. Is it because of the NBC contract??? Ha. That’s very overrated. Thanks to cable TV, if a recruit goes to a major program in a major conference, they will get exposure. We are in the Information Age, and I can see the Fighting Nutria battle the Mudbugs for Directional Louisiana supremacy live if I wanted to. Fat Boy is like Jabba the Hut, Kevin White is the rat looking thing on a chain around Jabba’s wrist, and Notre Dame’s fanbase is just like the patrons in the Cantina scene on Star Wars. Luke Skywalker??? We’ll give that to the USC Trojans…
Oh, and “Touchdown Jesus” looking down on the football field to see his favorite team play??? Please. Jesus is all-knowing. I don’t think that he needs an end zone view of Notre Dame stadium. Plus, his favorite team is Alabama. He gave the school the Bear.
Question: What does a gang of flies and Notre Dame fans have in common??? They can live off of fossilized turds for 50 years…
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Al said
You are a fucking idiot,plain and simple.
Thomas the Terrible said
Looks like you struck a nerve. (snicker)
Joel said
Hey, I think USC needs to have an extra horse when that play Notre Dame next year, in case Traveller runs out of energy when USC puts up 50…
CSI Galax said
Nothing Irish about them. They were founded by french missionaries. Notre Dame du Lac , their official name, is french for Our Lady of the Lake. They play so many cupcakes in their schedule, that they should rename their home field: Little Debbie Stadium.
http://nog2.blogspot.com/
zigzag said
When do we get to see Charlie Weis, Mark Mangino and Ralph Friedgen at the same trough?
Joel said
@4 I was thinking Krispy Kreme Field, so they can really get some big time corporate dollars behind them. If they really wana keep with the religious theme, Trinity Broadcast Network Stadium…
@5 My friend Zigzag, probably when they finish up at CiCi’s Pizza…
Zach said
Notre Dame is just one of those things in life that I love to HATE, if you aren’t Catholic with black curly hair growing out of your potato clogged ear’s then you aren’t welcomed Notre Dame. Now where the Chancellor and his recruiter’s have been able to find so many look-a-like student’s is anyone’s guess. Maybe Rhode Island, Delaware, the East Coast, Bentsen-Hearst, The Bronx, Sicily? You get the picture. The whole NBC-Notre Dame thing is just sort of a waste if you asked me, but I’m sure there again NBC broke out their sharp pencils and put their tall skinny people with pointy head’s to work, and they probably found out that Notre Dame Football has a million fan’s who tune in every week to watch, and depending upon that ONE game per season when ND actually plays a division 1A team with a winning record they draw an additional half-to-three-quarters of an million viewer’s making NBC’s suicide pack with Notre Dame appear to work just fine, however there are still the opportunity cost’s that go by the wayside never considered, or looked at from at least from the FOOTBALL FANS point of view that is, those sharp penciled pointy head’s are still giving a thumbs up on the deal, so it appears. But, they were winning 6 to 10 games each season, every season when that deal was first initiated, or struck for the dummies. . . Personally, I think the deal stink’s, and the entire nation is then cheated out of one of those games that falls to Game-plan, or just OFF. . . . But, remember I am an unreliable hater of Touchdown Jesus’ football team. . . So, can I really be listened to?
satiricalobservations said
NBC signs the deal with Notre Dame because they understand the passion that fans of the University are loyal and will watch, and so will the people who want to see Notre Dame lose. Its called a marketing strategy. Though using such multisyllabic words may confuse you so I will try to keep things simple.
Now I know that having a leprechaun as a symbol is not as sexy as having a blue tick hound dog, especially knowing the back story of how such a majestic beast was chosen. Being Catholic is in doing right actions, instead of concerning themselves on the mascots of football teams. With the Leprechaun being a common symbol from the old country it was an easy choice for the Fighting Irish.
I will be sure to keep your opinions in mind on firing Ty Willingham being wrong with all the success that he has had in Washington. Losing a 21 point lead over Hawaii in your own house in bad weather is not exactly the person you want to be defending as a “wrongful” hire.
To the BCS contention, I personally didn’t want to play those bowl games, in fact I wanted them to be slighted out of the bowls to give them the grit and determination that spurred Miami several years ago. But I don’t think we should feel bad at the fact that a Notre Dame team lost to this years National Champion. They had a weak defense, and everybody knew it. So they got chosen to play in a home game for LSU, and yes got beat badly.
I wanted an equally overrated Oklahoma and have LSU do to Boise State what Georgia did to Hawaii last year. From what we have seen at this years Rose Bowl the school has no say over who picks them. But then that would require an objectivity that can not be present when one is motivated by envy.
It is a wonder that Charlie Wies didn’t break all of those offensive numbers having Randy Moss, Wess Welker, and Dante Stallworth as his wide receivers. Wait he didn’t have those guys. He had a less talented team? Even the Patriots look at their past squads and say they were less talented across the board? Well then I guess statistics and rhetoric about stuff you know nothing about isn’t limited to BCS officials.
The fact that you praise Alabama of all places as being special in God’s eyes seeing how they are the Dixie Notre Dame, living off what happened in the past even worse than the Irish. The pure fact that Auburn has had the level of success is testament to the failure of Alabama to get past its own history.
Firing Mike Shula sure lead you guys to the promised land didn’t it. I guess he should have lost to Louisiana-Monroe at home then put it on par with Pearl Harbor and 9-11.
But what do I know, I am merely a Notre Dame fan that is a fan of the SEC as well. I think how guys act off the field is just as important as to how well they perform on the field.
Thomas the Terrible said
“The fact that you praise Alabama of all places as being special in God’s eyes seeing how they are the Dixie Notre Dame, living off what happened in the past even worse than the Irish. The pure fact that Auburn has had the level of success is testament to the failure of Alabama to get past its own history.”
It’s called sarcasm, I didn’t write the piece but it’s easy to figure out.
“Firing Mike Shula sure lead you guys to the promised land didn’t it. I guess he should have lost to Louisiana-Monroe at home then put it on par with Pearl Harbor and 9-11.”
Have you read all the stories that out and out bash Bama? Psst scroll up and look at the Tennessee picture at the top.
“But what do I know, I am merely a Notre Dame fan that is a fan of the SEC as well. I think how guys act off the field is just as important as to how well they perform on the field.”
Yes like Lorenzo Crawford, Donald Dykes, Abram Elam and Justin Smith who were expelled for rape.
Derrell Hand another example of Catholic morales arrested for soliciting a prostitute.
And the basketball team has those morales as well. Kyle McAlarney, suspended indefinitely from the team after being arrested on a marijuana possession charge.
Do I need to continue?
Joel said
“NBC signs the deal with Notre Dame because they understand the passion that fans of the University are loyal and will watch, and so will the people who want to see Notre Dame lose. Its called a marketing strategy. Though using such multisyllabic words may confuse you so I will try to keep things simple.”
USC & fans of 15 other schools are just as passionate. It’s called losing to your biggest rivals consistently…
“Now I know that having a leprechaun as a symbol is not as sexy as having a blue tick hound dog, especially knowing the back story of how such a majestic beast was chosen. Being Catholic is in doing right actions, instead of concerning themselves on the mascots of football teams. With the Leprechaun being a common symbol from the old country it was an easy choice for the Fighting Irish.”
Your school was named after a cathedral in Paris, France. It seems to me that your school’s mascot should at the least be named the “Fightin’ Pussies” with a pink vagina called “Pearly”.
“I will be sure to keep your opinions in mind on firing Ty Willingham being wrong with all the success that he has had in Washington. Losing a 21 point lead over Hawaii in your own house in bad weather is not exactly the person you want to be defending as a “wrongful” hire.”
Nevermind that Ty Willingham had a better record after 3 years at Notre Dame than Weis. And please don’t even bring up the fact that you went to 2 BCS bowls that you didn’t deserve to go to and promptly got dispatched. It almost makes you sound “Buckeye-ish”…wait, they have won a championship 5 years ago. When was yours???
“It is a wonder that Charlie Wies didn’t break all of those offensive numbers having Randy Moss, Wess Welker, and Dante Stallworth as his wide receivers. Wait he didn’t have those guys. He had a less talented team? Even the Patriots look at their past squads and say they were less talented across the board? Well then I guess statistics and rhetoric about stuff you know nothing about isn’t limited to BCS officials.”
True, those Patriot teams were less talented…on the offensive side of the ball. I seem to remember a Patriots defense that shut down a very high powered Ram defense in 2002 and a pretty diverse Panther and Eagle offense in 2004 and 2005 in the Super Bowl wins. The offense scored some points, but then again, I seem to remember a coach nicknamed “Hoodie” that is still there running the show. It was a TEAM effort, headed by a genius coach, Spygate notwithstanding. And a true fan would not have misspelled “Wies”…
“But what do I know, I am merely a Notre Dame fan that is a fan of the SEC as well. I think how guys act off the field is just as important as to how well they perform on the field.”
Be sure to card Jimmy Claussen when he goes to those bars in South Bend. That seems to be a pattern for Notre Dame QB’s, seeing as though Rick Mirer did the same thing 16 years ago. Demetrius Jones picked up for weed.