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Friday, November 17, 2006

Senior Day (aka better than "Judgment" Day)

Tomorrow is Senior Day, and for all our departing seniors (Brady Quinn, and whoever else), this will be the last time they will play at Notre Dame Stadium in their entire lives. Clearly an emotional event for all involved. Usually Senior Day involves bringing out the players' parents and having some of them address the crowd over the PA system. Unfortunately, due to the lack of wireless microphones at the House That God Built, each senior's departing message will be written in skywriting above the field at halftime.

This week, the Genius came up with a hilarious way for Notre Dame to beat Army. Noticing the similarity between the two teams' helmets, Mr. Weis had the secondary paint black stripes down the middle of their helmets to mirror Army's helmet. They will also be wearing color-change jerseys, which will change to white after being sprayed with water. This will lead to hilarious plays where the Army quarterback thinks he's throwing it deep to one of his receivers, when it's just one of our safeties pretending to run down the sideline. Instant interception!

I would be remiss if I didn't mention that Army is one of our biggest rivals (although every team we play is one of our biggest rivals, because we only schedule our biggest rivals!). Bruce Feldman on ESPN Insider did not even include this rivalry in his Top 10, which I don't have to tell you is ludicrous. Even though this is only the third time we've played Army in 21 years, those guys always come to play, which, I think we've established, is the benchmark for a Notre Dame rivalry. Sure, they've only beaten us eight times overall, but they tied us four times, and I'm pretty sure you can't get a tie in college anymore, so that is something.

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