The only game that matters this coming week...

[VaderFin]

Which is why I hate Notre Dame, the Yankees, the Lakers...for every 1 long time good fan they have 5 bandwagon assclowns talking smack when they are good and nowhere to be seen when they suck.

[Plindsey88]

Which is why I hate Notre Dame, the Yankees, the Lakers...for every 1 long time good fan they have 5 bandwagon assclowns talking smack when they are good and nowhere to be seen when they suck.

At least there are good people like you who will proudly wear the - ummmm.... Exactly what do they call the Miami colors? Teal and Coral? LOL... Anyways, Vader, I can respect the fact that you will sport those God-awful obnoxious colors even though the Dolphins blow... It builds character....

[CC]

One thing I don't get is Irish people loving Notre Dame strictly because they are called the Fighting Irish. I am Irish (37th generation 100%) and I am a huge Michigan fan, and some of my friends that are also Irish have referred to me as UnIrish because In don't like Notre Dame.

Please.

[VaderFin]

Which is why I hate Notre Dame, the Yankees, the Lakers...for every 1 long time good fan they have 5 bandwagon assclowns talking smack when they are good and nowhere to be seen when they suck.

At least there are good people like you who will proudly where the - ummmm.... Exactly what do they call the Miami colors? Teal and Coral? LOL... Anyways, Vader, I can respect the fact that you will sport those God-awful obnoxious colors even though the Dolphins blow... It builds character....

Aqua and Orange. No TEAL!!

[Plindsey88]

One thing I don't get is Irish people loving Notre Dame strictly because they are called the Fighting Irish. I am Irish (37th generation 100%) and I am a huge Michigan fan, and some of my friends that are also Irish have referred to me as UnIrish because In don't like Notre Dame.

Please.

It goes back to a time when the Irish were highly discriminated against in the US... There was a time round about the turn of the century, when being an irish immigrant was not much better than being "colored" (pardon the phrase, I'm just going with historical accuracy, here)... Ever see those signs from the 1920's that read "Now Hiring: Irish need not apply" ? Well, anyways, back then not that many Irish folk attended college, as a percentage of the Irish population in America as a whole... Those that did typically attended Catholic Schools... And very few small Catholic Schools had football teams... If they did, they were extremely crappy... Then along comes Notre Dame, and starts beating up on some of the best college football programs in the country... In a way, the Fighting Irish were sticking it to the man - all the rich folk that wanted nothing to do with the Irish immigrants... FINALLY, the sports-loving irish immigrants had someone to root for... So they did... And they raised their children to do the same... And their grandchildren, and so on.... To the point that now-a-days, a whole helluva lot of decendents from those Irish families root for Notre Dame, even though they don't attend the school, no one in their family attends the school, and they've never lived anywhere near South Bend... It's about a whole lot more than just being called the fighting Irish.... It's about a football team which embodied the hopes and dreams of an oppressed, impoverished people in the not so distant past....

What the Fighting Irish did for the Irish peoples of America is very much like what Joe Louis did for Black Americans... And that legacy lingers to this day....

[CC]

Well that put me in my place.
I guess if my dad was a football fan I would probably like the Fighting Irish as well.

Thank god.

[Tiki]

GO GOPHERS!

[Crimedogg32]

GO GOPHERS!

[Nilmerf]

If both Michigan universities win this week, Christmas will come early for rabid Wolverine fans. Go Blue!

[CC]

Well, that was exceedingly painful to watch.
Add to that I got two phone calls of pure heckling minutes after the game was over.

Go Penn State!
I am going to the Orange Bowl and I'll be damned if I have to drive 24 hours to watch Ohio St.