I imagine having to write a post-game story somewhat limits your drinking during the game.
I could barely move after that horrid Michigan game the following morning...Rick
Heavy drinking leads to incoherence, so you're right about there being a fine line.
situation early on?
Louisville came out last season and was showing some formations that were unfamiliar to the defense and they gouged ND pretty well in the first half.
South Florida may have the same advantage. I don't think ND has a lot of film on them. Although I think our linebackers are further along now than they were last year.
Just a thought
If we get tired, they could also run on us late. The point of my article is to get ahead of them early so they won't have the luxury of staying with the ground game in the fourth quarter. We'll see how it plays out.
Exhausting.
Cash
Not only another football game, but a game that generates very little interest.
I can't wait until you retire so I can pass the article-writing torch to you. I hope I stay alive that long.
...I was at that game with our then-14-y.o. daughter and a friend of hers. I still can see the 99-yards-the-wrong-way TD in my nightmares, and hear the the loudest crack of thunder ever in ND stadium that chased the laggards into the concourse.
It'll be nice to see Lenzy and Tremble have at least respectable games. I assume our coach will have used his can of Rustoleum to cure the creaky aspects of the first game; that is, if the paint's dried by Saturday.
He is a junior at ND this year, and that game is the last time he witnessed ND lose at home. Pretty impressive record except he has endured some punishing away losses in the last 9 years (Texas, Alabama, among others).