So I guess you remember going to the games. I should have realized you played based on the earlier threads.

Joe was a paisan and a wild man - believe he got suspended from school for a bit for hosting a stag party in the basement of Dillon. IIRC, he totaled a friends '67 Mustang convertible at the corner of ND Ave and Angela blvd. as well. Believed he roomed with Ed Guylas. I find myself thinking of him every time I am in SF walking past LaRocca's bar in North Beach. He's a great guy.

You must have played w/Joe Theisman as well. I had the great fortune of meeting him a number of years ago and the privilege of introducing him as one of our key note speakers at a sales conference. He got a standing O.

Told him he was the starting quarterback and needed to focus exclusively on football. Good decision. He was awesome at quarterback. Amazing, really, as we probably both recall.

the best one I ever saw while I was an undergrad, including the one that won the National Championship.

Their season-ending stretch was particularly harsh -- Georgia Tech and LSU were both ranked (LSU nearly beat Nebraska in the Orange Bowl), and Southern Cal had tied Nebraska, which ended up unbeaten and No. 1. Plus, we had to play SC at the Coliseum in a monsoon, and turnovers cost us the game. The 1973 team earned its championship by beating Alabama to end a perfect season, but there was a reason it was a substantial underdog going into the Sugar Bowl. The only ranked team ND played in the regular season was Southern Cal, and that was in South Bend. Pitt was No. 20 when we beat them 31-10 on the road, but they never rose above that and ended unranked.