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2006-11-10T14:42:00.000-06:00

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2006-11-01T01:59:00.000-06:00

Irish Airlines

2006-09-25T14:56:00.000-05:00

Come fly the Irish skys...

- skylar

Silencing all your Fans

2006-09-12T07:18:00.000-05:00

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Swingers

2006-06-16T22:45:00.000-05:00

[4 months ago]

Answering Machine: Hi, this is Jimmy. Leave a message.

Pete Carroll: Hi. Uh, Jimmy, this is Pete. I met you at the, um, at the 5 Star Football camp, uh, tonight. Uh, I just called t-to say that I had a great time... and you should think about USC and call me tomorrow, or in, uh, t-two days, uh, whatever. Anyway, uh, my number...[Beep!] is...

Answering Machine: Hi, this is Jimmy. Leave a message.
Pete Carroll: Hi, uh, Jimmy, this is Pete again.
I just called 'cause it sounded like your machine might've cut me off... when, uh, when I... before I finished leaving my number. Anyway, uh... And also, uh, sorry to call so late,
but you were still at the 5 Star camp talking to Coach Weis before I left to throw more dummies off the USC campus buildings, so I knew I'd get your machine. Anyhow, uh, uh, my number's...[Beep!]

Answering Machine: Hi, this is Jimmy. Leave a message.
Pete Carroll: 213-555-USC(#)2. That's it. Just wanna leave my number.
I didn't want you to think I was weird, desperate, basing our franchise solely on 2 players for the past 3 years, or being out-recruited from my own backyard-d... We should just, uh, hang out... for the next four years or so and, uh, see where it goes. 'Cause I’m nice, and, uh, you know, we have no more national title e-expectations. So, okay? Thanks a lot. Bye-bye.

Answering Machine: Hi, this is Jimmy. Leave a message.
Pete Carroll: I just got out of a four-year relationship with another quarterback who might be auditioning to be the 5th member of 98 degrees okay? That should help explain why I'm acting so weird. I just wanted you to know that. It's not you, it's me. Do you like Snoop Dogg and Jimmy Fallon…? I can set-t … set that up… nevermind… I'm sorry…
Pete Carroll: … This is Pete.

Answering Machine: Hi, this is Jimmy. Leave a message.
Pete Carroll: Hi, Jimmy, this is Pete. Could you just, uh, call me when you get in? I'm gonna be up for a while trying to find a quarterback who isn’t named after a slang word for a part of a person’s anatomy or one who isn't sexually harrassing coeds and I'd rather speak to you in person... instead of trying to fit it all into [Beep!] ... F**k!

Answering Machine: Hi, this is Jimmy. Leave a message.
Pete Carroll: Uh, Jimmy? M-Pete. It's, uh, uh... It's just, uh... This just isn't working out. I- I think you're great, but, uh, I-I... can’t handle the pressure of molding quarterback talent. Maybe we should just take some time off from each other. It's not you, it's me. It's what I'm going through. All right? Uh, i-i-it's, it... It's only been 4 months since my last quarterback...

Jimmy: Pete?

Pete Carroll: Jimmy! Great! D- Did you just walk in, or were you listening all along?
Jimmy: Don't ever call me again.

[Click]

Pete Carroll: Wow. I-I guess you're home.

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Big Charlie Style

2006-05-12T22:58:00.000-05:00

Woo
Uh, uh, uh, uh
Ha ha, ha ha
What, what, what, what
Ha ha ha ha

On your mark ready set let's go
Offense pro
I know you know
I go psycho
recruitin' big name kids
Just won't quit
Gotta get Jimmy wit it
Ooh that's it
Now gun-it gun-it out wide
N-F-L type
Offense you will thrive
You gotta
Golden
Arm with a lotta
Zing on it
Bring us 4 rings
Let's spin

Everybody lookin' at this
new Heisman bid
Wishin they Irish dancin' a jig
Here with this handsome kid
Blue chip-a chip-a right from Cali-forn-ia
We don't fight it
He's got the look
Now let's sign him
Best Irish catch since Mo at Navy
Givin out TD's
Bringin heat on gameday
Yo his spikey hair's infinite (ha ha)
Big Charlie Style's all in it
Gettin' Jimmy Wit It

Na na na na na
Na na na na na
Gettin Jimmy wit it
Na na na na na
Na na na na na
Gettin Jimmy wit it

Private Team Jet if you need a lift
Wanna learn from the best?
Who else B. Quinn
Living that life some consider a myth
Rock from South Quad to Finn-i-gans
Recruits used to tease me
Commit to me now nice and easy
Since I moved up like Mack and Pete-y

Dream to the maximum
I be asking em
Would you like to bounce
with the brother
that's platinum???

Never see Lloyd attractin em
Rather play ball with Chad and them
Michigan...
Psyche

Irish
You thought we took a spill
But we didn't
Weis callin all the shots we're winnin
Touchdown Jesus so rich with tradition
Gug for the team on the outskirts of Ivy
You tryin to flex on ND?
Don't be silly
Getting Jimmy wit it

- First and Gold

Classified

2006-05-02T22:34:00.000-05:00

Charlie: Thank you. Hello. We will be dealing with USCs and PSUs as our simulators. Now, then, as most of you know, USC's recruits doesn't have the TD-to-INT ratio that Clausen has. And, it doesn't bleed blue and gold while running a 4.43 40-time like Walker. However, our offense does have a problem with its 2nd quarter point totals. It won't put up the 21+ points we need. The latest intelligence tells us that the most it will do is one touch --um-- Excuse me, clausen. Is there something wrong?

clausen: Yes sir, the data on our high powered offense is inaccurate.

Charlie: How's that, sir?

clausen: Well, I just happened to be like a MiG 28 the way I throw touch....

O-Line: We!

clausen: Uh, sorry O-Line. "WE" happened to be like a MiG 28 that can put up 40 pts a quarter.

Charlie: Where did you see this?

clausen: Uh, that's classified.

Charlie: It's what?

clausen: It's classified. I could tell you, but why dont i just show
you the national championship.

- First and Gold

2006-03-29T12:07:00.000-05:00

Sweet September: Can't Come Fast Enough

ND Football Highlights 2005

Brokeback University (USC)

2006-03-07T14:00:00.000-05:00

[Somewhere in the Raging Ghetto of South Central Los Angeles]

Pete Carroll: Tell you what, we coulda had a good life together! F**kin' real good life! Coulda had us more National Championships. But you didn't want it, Reggie! So what we got now is a “one-peat” at Brokeback University! Everything's built on that! That's all we got, boy, f**kin' all. So I hope you know that, even if you don't never know that I could only win one national title with your amazing talent! You count the damn times that you saved our ass these past three years and you measure the short
f**king leash you keep me on - and then you ask me about, and you know that the possibilities of me every winning a national championship again is close to zero without you by my side. You have no idea how bad it gets! I'm not you... I can't make it on a coupla national championships once or twice a century! You are too much for me Reggie, you sonofawhoreson bitch!

Pete Carroll: … I wish I knew how to quit you

Reggie Bush: (Crying) Well, why don’t you? Why don’t you just let me be? I’m going on to be the Texans first round draft choice and I’m looking forward to finding out first hand what David Carr knows already, and that is what the flavor of the turf at Reliant Stadium tastes like. Get the f**k off me! I can’t stand you taking credit for all the hard work that I’ve done these past few years… sure we’ll always have Brokeback University, but I can’t stand being Poodle’s pet anymore…

[What happens next can most amply described by Poodle Pete’s decline into obscurity while Mr. Bush continues to go find out that his amazing talent is egregiously outshadowed by the poor skill level of his new Texan linemen]

2006-01-16T22:43:00.000-05:00

"Yaaaay!!! A Touchdown!!!!!"

Not so fast, sweetheart...

They say a picture is worth a thousand words...
This one says "USC Sucks" 500 times

ND v. Syracuse

2005-12-19T19:33:00.000-05:00

New Syracuse Video is up...

ND v. Syracuse

Brady Bunch

2005-12-18T21:26:00.000-05:00

Here's the story of our brand new coach,
Who was boasting three glistening bowl rings.
All of them were from the pros, the super bowl,
The newest one last year.

Here's the story, of our quarterback Brady,
Who was struggling under mediocre coaching.
He was with our tem, losing all together,
Yet they were all alone.

Till the one day when Charlie met this Brady,
And they knew that it was much more than a hunch.
That this group would somehow form a championship.
That's the way we all became the Brady Bunch.
The Brady Bunch, The Brady Bunch.

Power Hour DVD

2005-12-17T17:20:00.000-05:00

This post has nothing at all to do with Irish football.... but it does have something to do with being Irish...

I have taken the idea of Power Hour to the next step and created a Power Hour DVD... take a look:

Skylar Novak's Power Hour DVD

enjoy.

- A Skylar Novak Joint

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ND 'Twas the Night Before Christmas

2005-12-15T23:06:00.000-05:00

"Twas the night before Christmas, when all through South Bend
Not a creature was stirring, neither Zombie nor Pyro"

The banners were hung on the stadium with care,
In hopes that St. Charlie soon would be there

The alumni were nestled all snug in their penthouse condos,
With dreams of Leahy and Holtz in their heads;

While the students at the Grotto, down by the lake,
Were just giving thanks for a long winter break,

When out on those quads there arose such a clatter,
I sprang from my bed to see what was the matter.

Away to the window I flew like a flash,
Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash.

The Dome with a crest of new-fallen snow
Gave a luster of mid-day to our campus below

When, what to my wondering eyes should appear
A high-powered offense: the Champions of every year!

With a large and proud leader, so friendly and nice
I knew in a moment it must be Coach Weis

As fast as Four Horsemen, onward they came
He whistled, and shouted, and called them by name:

"Now Hoyte, Now Samardzija, Walker, Fasano
On Stovall, On Shelton, Wooden, Anastascio"

To the top of the rankings, to the top of them all
"Now throw a-way, run a-way, and dive for the ball!

We will move like the wind, our runners will fly
And just for balance, we'll take to the sky!"

So up to the top of the rankings they flew
With a big book of plays, and Brady Quinn too

And then in a twinkling, to the sound of their cleats,
Their scoring, and their wins; I forgot all thier past defeats

As I drew in my hand, and was turning around,
Down the chimney, Coach Weis came with a bound

He was dressed with his rings, and headset to boot
And his clothes were all drenched with Gatorade and Fiesta loot

A number of victories he carried on his back
And he smiled as he turned and presented a sack
of trophies--how they twinkled! Like heaps of gold treasures
His cheeks were like roses, his wisdom past measure

Weis commanded the team on fourth downs to throw
Through hail and through fog, through sleet and through snow

His genius caused points in the forties and fifties,
to hearten alumni and keep our stats spiffy

Weis had a broad face and a little round belly,
That shook, when he laughed, like a BCS bowl-ful of jelly.

He was chubby and plump, and so sure of himself,
That I cheered when I saw him, in spite of myself;

A wink of his eye and a twist of his head
Soon gave me to know, Ohio State would soon be dead

He boasted not a word, praise makes not his day
But all now know, for the title we'll play

And laying a finger to the side of his nose,
And giving a nod, up the rankings we rose

At his departure I heard Trooper McCarthy say;
If your sleigh flight looks fishy, you'll be the catch of the day!

Weis sprang to the roof, to his team gave a cheer
And away to a victory in the Fiesta next year;

And I heard him call plays, for winning that game
"Merry Christmas to all. And love thee Notre Dame!

- Submitted by Anonymous

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Carr Grants Dying Wish

2005-12-14T00:24:00.000-05:00

ANN ARBOR, Mich – Lloyd Carr usually doesn’t let anyone else run his Michigan Wolverine team. However, for 10-year-old Desmond Dierdorf Jones he made an exception. The Michigan coach met last week with Desmond, who had been told by doctors weeks earlier that he might only have weeks to live.

“He was a big Michigan fan in general, especially football, and especially of the greatest quarterback in this modern era – Chad Henne,” said his mother Mrs. Jones.

Carr showed up at the Jones’ home in Ann Arbor, Michigan and talked to Desmond Dierdorf about old pranks that he used to pull on Tom Brady back when he coached him at Michigan. He told Desmond that he would intentionally make Brady run wind sprints at the end of practice, then Carr would sneak out and slit Brady’s tires with a broken beer bottle so he couldn’t get home at night. Then he would do little things like place used chewing gum in between the pages of Brady’s play book and take all his clothes out of his locker and throw them in the pool while Brady was at practice. Then as the ultimate prank, Carr said that he decided to bench Brady behind Drew Henson because he always thought it was funny to see Tom (Brady) leaving practice in tears.

“While there I gave him an opportunity to hammer me on getting blown the f**k out in last years Rose Bowl to Texas and single handedly launching Vince Young’s Heisman campaign for this upcoming year,” said Carr. “He (Desmond) got me pretty good, and it reminded me of my wife when she called me a big fat loser after the debacle and took my two dogs and kicked me out of the house.”

Before leaving, Carr asked Desmond Dierdorf a question. He asked him if there was anything that he could do for him. Desmond responded that his only request on his deathbed was for Chad Henne to start at quarterback for two straight years no matter what. Even though Carr had highly sought after QB recruit Matt Gutierrez waiting in the whim to help save a dismal Wolverine team, Carr granted the wish and said that Chad Henne will start for the next two seasons under all circumstances.

Desmond Dierdorf never got to see Chad Henne lead Michigan to a painful 7-4 season and Pre-New Years Day Bowl game. He also missed out on Chad Henne’s often outrageously bad performances against Notre Dame, or when he slipped without being touched and fell down, like a school child who fell off the monkey-bars during recess, on the last play of an excruciating Wisconsin loss.

And when Michigan faced a grueling Ohio State defense and a healthy, robust, athletically superior Gutierrez could have won the highly touted rivalry game the question was raised, “what are we going to do?” Carr responded, “we have no choice, put Chad in the game.” The end result was a loss to the Buckeyes and the crippling of a once proud program, but it’s a message that reached all the way back to a family in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

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Thanks Boston College

2005-12-13T13:11:00.000-05:00

Robert Moses
Chair - Hiring Committee First and Gold
443 Irish Hall
University of Notre Dame du Lac
College Hill, IN 79443

Dear Boston College,

Thank you for your flow chart of November 16. After careful consideration, I regret to inform you that I am unable to accept your lame ass flow chart, or any of the arguments contained therein.

This year I have been particularly fortunate in receiving the usual large number of ridiculous arguments and general pundit speak, of our jealous critics. With such a varied and promising field of candidates it is impossible for me to accept all absurd arguments.

That fact that your University has absolutely no outstanding qualifications and previous experience in original thought, I find that your flow chart does not meet even the lowest standard of human thought. Therefore, I will assume that this was really just the product of an experiment conducted in your social sciences department on underdeveloped apes. I look forward to reading the report in Nature.

Best of luck in living in the shadows of a far superior University, mine.

Sincerely,

Robert Moses and Taylor Creed
First and Gold

Thank you, Ivan Maisel

2005-12-11T13:21:00.000-05:00

"1. Thanks to all the Notre Dame fans who marked the one-year anniversary of my eulogy for Irish football, written after Urban Meyer left the university standing at the altar and eloped with Florida. The column holds up -- well-written, clever -- with one exception. It's wrong. Not only wrong, but loud wrong. Oh well."
- Ivan "The Terrible" Maisel

Ivan, you know who else died and came back to life? Jesus. That is right, Jesus Christ. Don't worry Ivan "The Terrible", many people made the similar mistake, but there was only one Doubting Thomas. Thanks for the redaction Doubting Ivan "The Terrible". Next time, just don't say loud wrong because that doesn't even make sense.

-Robert Moses

In a sweeping landslide

2005-12-11T00:40:00.000-05:00

During his acceptance speech of the Heisman, Quinn just couldn’t believe what he was feeling. "Oh man, this is amazing," Quinn said, a row of former winners lining the stage behind him. "It's truly an honor to be elected to this fraternity. I've been in college for three years and it's the first time I've been invited into a fraternity. In fact we don’t even frats at ND, actually I usually just sit in my dorm playing Halo all day. Well no, sometimes we like to steal ice out of the ice machine and throw it on peoples’ doors. Oh, or my favorite, we use the emulator online and prank call people using Arnold Schwarzenegger’s voice, man I love that." In fact, that is probablly what Quinn was thinking about when they called his name. "I was in shock because Vince Young and Matt are such great... great…. Well they aren't actually all that good. I mean Matt fell apart again us, and all but lost the game till he screwed up and saved USC ass by fumbling the ball. And Vince is barely a QB, I mean he hardly throws, so I guess no I wasn’t in shock at all, I mean they really weren’t competition for me." Quinn said.

- Taylor Creed reporting from New York.

PAC-10: The Merry-Go-Round of Inferiority

2005-12-10T16:58:00.000-05:00

Although this post lacks the parody-like nature that you are accustomed to, this falls into the "plenty of irish love" category, and I feel that it is necessary to get a few words out there...

Those of you that know a Pac-10 fan, you know that they are "beautiful individual" (Lou Holtz reference to Mark May during the ND football banquet) and you also know that they are one of those people who has been having the wool pulled over their eyes by the Pac-10 by being made to think that they are a reputable conference. However, last time I checked, having only one football team that can win in your conference didn't exactly turn you into a "power division." Just for fun... lets look at a few things...

Pac 10 record against top 25 teams: 4 - 25.... granted, Ty did his part in racking up those losses, but are you kidding me - TWENTY FIVE LOSSES. And i have news for you, USC has three of those wins; but perhaps it takes away a little when we see that 3 of those 4 wins have been against pac-10 teams that shouldn't be in the top 25 anyway (USC over ranked Oregon, USC over ranked UCLA, and Arizona over ranked UCLA)

In fact, to make it simple, here is AN ALL INCLUSIVE LIST of non-Pac-10 Top 25 Teams that the Pac-10 was able to beat this year:
1) USC over Notre Dame...

that is all

So what you are telling me, is that you have a power conference because one of the best teams of alleged college lore was able to get flat out, out played and win a football game by LUCK in the last :07 seconds? - There i said it!

See, the problem with the pac-10 is that everybody sucks, save for one team. However, don't get me wrong, they all suck equally though. There is no logical connection within the conference... eg. UCLA beats Cal, Cal beats Zona, then Zona beats UCLA... now this has been going on all year long but none of "experts" seem to realize it.... now in evaluating how good a team is you can pretty much do it on two levels. One you can sit down and watch every gut-wrenching, boring pac-10 game that is on TV because you live on the west coast and that is the only option you have and you can actually see that they are not good teams just in the way that they flat out objectively play... or you can do what I call the "ESPN Method" and just look at what a couple numbers say on the paper you are reading... eg. "Oregon has one loss, Notre Dame has 2, Oregon should go to the BCS." - Tony Cornheiser (PTI)... while we're at it, lets send TCU (only one loss) to the BCS bowl Tony... the fact of the matter is, is if you want to evaluate a team using the "ESPN Method" you need to take a look at the numbers in the context in which they lie... now everybody knows that when you conduct an experiment, it is always proper to have a "control" experiment and a "variable" experiment. The variable is the one that you are testing, but it doesn't mean anything unless you have a proper control to compare it to. That means, that if you are going to look strictly at the numbers and use the "ESPN Method" you should also make sure that there is a proper variable in your experiment. See the problem with the Pac-10 is that it isn't using any "variable" in the experiment. It only has a control - and that is the pac-10 playing each other and nobody else. So from this experiment, we know that the pac-10 can beat up on each other pretty good; however, we can't measure the strength of their football programs if they choose only to play this "round-robin" like season against one another only. We need to see a variable, such as scheduling a non-conference game maybe against Florida, Miami, at least even or Pittsburgh please.

Instead here are the non-conference teams that they selected:

Arizona: Utah, North Arizona, Purdue (and they got schlacked)

Oregon: Houston, Montana, Fresno (who are these teams)

UCLA: San Diego State, Rice, Oklahoma

Cal: dear Lord Sacramento State, Illinois, New Mexico St.

Arizona State: Temple, LSU (who they lost to), Northwestern

Stanford: Navy, UC Davis (D 1-AA team they lost to), ND

Oregon St: PORTLAND ST!!!, Boise St, Louisville (thank you - btw State, you got dominated in this one)

Washington St: IDAHO, Nevada, GRAM ST (do they even have football teams?)

Washington: Air Force, IDAHO, ND

And then

USC: Hawaii, Arkansas, ND, Fresno

Okay, so what we have here is Pac-10 teams that schedule very, very weak non-conference games and the semi-tough ones that they do schedule (ND, LSU, Lousiville) they get a well deserved beating handed to them.

Now, one of those beautiful Pac-10 individuals, perhaps a lowly Ducks fan before packing his bags for San Diego for his lovely pre-New Years Holiday Bowl will likely say… “oh yea ND, well we killed Stanford, and you only barely beat them.”…. wow… isn’t that so cute. I think I remember having an argument like that before when I was on the swing set during recess in 1^st grade. Now in addressing just one of these lovely Pac-10 arguments, it is important to note that this method of arguing is circular and leads to no affirmative conclusions (eg. ND barely got by Stanford who Oregon whalloped... yet they fail to take into consideration that Oregon barely beat Arizona (by 3 points) who had lost to Stanford earlier in the year. So first off, anyone who tries to argue through disjunctive syllogisms (look it up Oregon fans) in sports would probably be best apt to do it back on the playground at Windom Elementary (I’ll give you directions if you need them). If history has taught us 2 things they are as follows:

1) the Holocaust was a bad thing, and
2) Using logically premised syllogisms to express the quality of a sports
team simply DO NOT work.... especially when the Pac-10 is concerned (See above analysis).

So in conclusion, the Pac-10 sucks (except for USC) and their records are grossly inflated because they are not tested outside their already terrible conference, so if you want to play the "ESPN Method", you must look at the context of the numbers, because numbers will lie to you... right TCU?

Skylar Novak is currently a failing law student because he spends all his time writing about college football and manipulating the minds of young ladies at the bar. His views and expressions in no way shape or represent the views of FirstandGold but he can be reached at firstandgold@gmail.com

I Believe we can touch the Blue Gray Sky

2005-12-08T18:48:00.000-05:00

And for your pleasure, here is the Believers [Vid] that hyped the USC v ND game.....

I used to think that ND could not get recruits
And life was gonna be nothing but an earful from the pundits
But now I know the meaning of Irish Glory
I'm looking up to Touchdown Jesus’ arms

If I can brag about it, then ND can do it
If I just believe it, there's no one to stop us

I believe ND can fly
I believe ND can touch the blue gray sky
I think about it every night and day
Unleash my wide outs and score again
I believe ND can soar
I see Darius running through that open hole
I believe ND can fly

See I was on the verge of breaking down
Sometimes the silence of no Heisman talk can seem so loud
There may be a Hawk, but lets not forget Blue Steel
But first I know it starts inside of Weis, oh

If I can brag about it, then ND can do it
If I just believe it, there's no one to stop us

Hey, cuz I believe in ND, oh

Hey, if I just let Fasano go
ND can fly
If I just use my wide outs
ND can fly
If I just let Darius soar,
Fly-eye; your next on the list Buck-eye

Go Irish

- Taylor Creed

Fiesta Bowl (Remix)

2005-12-06T00:49:00.000-05:00

After the season it's the selection party and
After the party, our bowl seasons startin' and
After the Jones then it's Darius, and
After the Insight it's the B-C-S...

Walker, Samard-zija, Fi-es-ta
Remix with the Charlie from the Mid-West Side
Game recognize, Ducks dont pretend
You could get this invite from the cupcake Pac-10

So Bucks, pop yo toasters
But don't ask for no sympathy
Bringin pain every down
Corey Mays & Zibby

Catches envelop
Racin Quinn's quota
Box up the trophy, back to South Bend
and we'll boast it

Whoever come closest - you've been warned
But OSU won't get the picture 'till the TDs is thrown
Make us wait 10 years, baby, "Bucks it's on!"
And we'll be stickin' it, Six in the Endzone

Droppin back for a pass to MoMo
Poppin blocks on the edge with MoMo
Put the CB on his ass with MoMo
Throwin balls up for grabs for MoMo

Cause it's about the Guinness flowin'
We gonna be drinkin 'till the whistle blowin'
Scorin high "Here come the Irish Bowlin"
Three-hundred yards before we even get goin'

Weis, Weis, Weis, Weis
Every time they see the big guy on the sideline
They say - Weis, Weis, Weis, Weis
Is what they all say when the Eighteen-Twelves on

Well y'all gotta Walker runnin draws and screen-as
Got'cha Bucks sayin "Have you seen our Defense?"
Yeah, "We ND" on the low
no we don't split our dough
gettin paid Tos-ti-tos

Fiesta

Fiesta, Fiesta

- JT Bishop

The Sound of Nasty

2005-11-18T14:39:00.000-05:00

A Special Feature brought to you by:
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The 2005 Video Highlights*
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Pitt - Episode I: Welcome Home Charlie

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Michigan - Episode II: Big House Big Coach Big Deal

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Washington PreGame - Pass Right

Washington - Episode III: The nasTY Bowl

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Purdue - Episode IV: Wakey Wakey Echoes and Brady

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USC PreGame - Believers

USC - Episode V: Darth Poodle

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BYU - Episode VI: Mission: Quinn Shark Stovall

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Tenn - Episode VII: Bargain Shopping

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Navy - Episode VIII: You're Not Bad Yourself

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Stanford - Episode X: Whoa Nelly III

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Fiesta Bowl: ND v. OSU

Notre Dame 2005 Highlights

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A Tale of Two Programs

2005-11-15T13:35:00.000-05:00

Book I, Chapter 1
The Period

It was the beginning of the best of times, it was the beginning of the worst of times, it was the age of Irish wisdom, it was the age of Gator foolishness, it was start of an epoch of belief in Irish Glory, it was the epoch of an incredulous return to useless swampland, it was the season of Weis, it was the season of Meyer, it was the spring of discredit and quiet study for Weis, it was the spring of over hyped glory for Meyer, the Irish had everything before them, the Gators had nothing before them, as expected all the Irish were going directly to a BCS bowl, however, the Gators were all going directly back to their mud huts in the swamp — in short, the period was so far like past periods, that some of the noisiest ESPN ‘authorities’ insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only, because it was time for the Irish to be back on top.

There were a coach, who some called a king, with 5 large jewels on his hand and a quarterback, who some called a Heisman candidate, with huge arms; running the show in South Bend; there was a bum, who some called an over hyped lucky *** with a large jaw, that many of his subjects wanted to punch and a team that played like queens without any spirit or discipline, at the throne in the swampland. In both countries it was clearer than crystal to the lords of the Universe had restored the loaves of victory and fishes of celebration back t the Irish, yes, things in general were settled for ever, the Irish will always be dominant.

- Taylor Creed

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Show me the National Championship

2005-11-11T16:37:00.000-05:00

[Coach Weis has just told Brady Quinn he will continue to be the Coach of the University of Notre Dame for at least 10 more years, putting away all talk of only filling in at ND until a better pro offer comes along. Weis must now convience his, clearly NFL bound, team stay in college....]

Brady Quinn: Oh... That's great. I'm very... happy.

Coach Weis: That's what I'm gonna do for you. Now this is what you're gonna do for me. You listening?

Brady Quinn: Yeah, yeah, well what can I do for YOU, Coach?

Charlie Weis: It's a very personal, very important thing. Hell, it's a family motto. Now are you ready? Just checking to make sure you're ready (Charlie turns his boom box real low) here it is - "show me the National Championship". (He now blasts the boom box at full level) OHHH! SHOW! ME! THE! National Championship! Doesn't it make you feel good just to say that, Brady? Say it with me one time brother!

Brady Quinn: um...Show you the National Championship.

Charlie Weis: Oh, come on, you can do better than that! I want you to say it brother with meaning! Hey, I got Lou Holtz on the other line I better hear you say it!

Brady Quinn: Yeah, ye - no, show you the National Championship!

Coach Weis: AH! Not show YOU! Show ME the National Championship!

Brady Quinn: Show me the National Championship!

Coach Weis: Yeah, that's it brother but you got to yell that shit!

Brady Quinn: Show me the National Championship!

Coach Weis: Louder!

Brady Quinn: Show me the National Championship!!!!!!

-- John "you had me at Nasty" McAvoy

(Thanks for the submission John, First and Gold)

Charlie Weis: Gettysburg Address (2006)

2005-11-10T12:56:00.000-05:00

Four score and seven years ago our fathers, Gipp and Rockne, brought forth on this University, a first national championship, conceived in Greatness, and dedicated to the proposition that no other college teams were created as equals.
Now we are engaged in a great war, testing whether that University, the only University so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of war pitted against inaccurate ESPN pundits and unintelligible race-wheeling, bed-wetting derelicts. During this war, we have come to dedicate a piece of that battlefield, as a final shameful resting place for those who came and failed in attempt to thwart the destiny of that University. This is altogether fitting and proper.

But, in truth, those who have truly dedicated – those who have truly consecrated – and given their lives on this hallowed ground are the brave Irish -- those of Montana, Lattner, Lujack, and Quinn -- those who have established that University of unfathomable power. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, however it will never forget what that University did here. It is for us, the Irish faithful, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who so valiantly fought here have thus far so nobly advanced -- that from these honored, we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve to return that University to the Greatness that it was conceived in and -- that this great University, under God and Weis, shall have a new birth of Glory -- and that the regal new government of the Irish, by the Irish, for the Irish, shall not perish from the college rankings, but reign true for all eternity.

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