controversy. If we don’t have a quarterback issue, wailing and gashing of teeth and a good old handwringing over who will lead the Team, then we are just not ND under Kelly.
by some 4th level depth chart player, and for the board to lose its collective mind.
Punt on 4th down if they haven't turned it over. See how smart I am
will Kelly muse to himself.....
...against Michigan.
I’m mostly kidding, but then there’s Texas 2016 to consider.
that I just booked a return flight from New Orleans to Seattle right in the middle of our likely humbling opener vs. Michigan.
My wife and I would rather go watch Tulane/Wake Forest Thursday evening, watch our son in the band, attend a cooking class, and take in some jazz and good food.
If we end up beating Michigan, I'll skip through it on the DVR Sunday morning over coffee and a blueberry muffin.
Ara Parseghian was Northwestern's head coach, Joe Kuharich was ND's head coach, and I wasn't born yet. For the record, I'm old. ND now has a 5-game winning streak in Evanston (4 under Ara), but hasn't played there since 1976.
In '65, my sophomore year, at Notre Dame; and, in Evanston the following year. We won both handily (38-7 and 35-7 respectively). The '66 game was played on a beautiful October day--sunny and warm. The score could have been 50-0 if Ara wanted to run up the score. We had a couple scores called back including a 70 yard punt return by Tom Schoen.
There was a 16-year hiatus in the series after 1976. In 1992, the NW home games were moved to Soldier Field. Again, a hiatus after the 1995 game until we played them in '14.
My dad said the series was animated by real hatred in the 30's and 40's. We were the Papists, and NW was seen by Irish fans as a bastion of WASP privilege.
during my first summer job in law school. I clerked with Barnes & Thornburg in South Bend. We spent one day that summer at the Indianapolis office. All the summer clerks briefly introduced themselves. One of them emphasized that she was going to law school at "North-WESSSSS-tern." It was Charles Emerson Winchester-esque. My fellow South Bend clerks and I made fun of her for the rest of the summer.
After the game, we ran down to the field to meet one of the NW pom-pom girls. It was a pre-arranged meeting--I had called her a few days prior to the game. Judy had been my high school classmate, and we saw quite a bit of each other during the 4 years she was in Evanston and I was at ND. I often went to Chicago for weekends. I stayed with my grandmother who lived in Evanston, and Judy would fix me up with her sorority sisters.
Anyway, Judy invited us to a frat/sorority party that evening. We agreed that we would meet at the venue, an apartment on Belmont. Suffice to say, we were not exactly welcomed, at least by the men at the party. I've never encountered a bigger bunch of assholes. I think they resented us because the women were quite attracted to us. I don't know what it was. Perhaps it was because we were so devastatingly handsome. Or maybe it was because we were exotic--real, live Catholics with strange surnames, names with lots of consonants. We didn't stay long--we grabbed the women we'd hooked up with and went a short distance to some bar on Clark. We had a ball.
replacement?
Not that Savvy wouldn't pursue him, but I think he'd tell him to pound sand.
of being rebuffed by Northwestern head coaches.
Ron P. won 3 heismans), was that in Soldier field?
and 1994 in Powlus's debut. So we've won 7 straight road games against Northwestern, as the Soldier Field games were NW home games.
how much of my free time I spend on YouTube searching for videos of past ND games.
Not surprisingly, Northwestern itself posted these videos.