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John H.
John H.
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Listening to sports-talk radio does not lower your IQ, but it does permit you to witness someone lowering his IQ. Someone was saying Patrick Mahomes – or maybe it was Lebron James – has a global brand. Oh, come on. Any American who ever went to a foreign country would know that the only compatriots […]

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The Football Psyop

David Pettus
David Pettus
5216
 

So I’ve been reading the latest theories out there and let me see if I truly understand what’s happening in the world of sports and pop culture. In case you’ve been vacationing in Greenland for the past six months and haven’t been following the important news, pop star Taylor Swift and Kansas City Chiefs football player Travis Kelce are dating. She shows up to all of his home games and many of his road games and sits in the luxury box seats with the Kelce family and the wife of Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes. She cheers wildly whenever Kelce does something great, which is pretty often since Kelce is a very good player. After the game, they kiss a lot, just like people who are dating tend to do.

Or, maybe, they aren’t actually dating… According to the latest theory, the Swift and Kelce relationship is actually an intricate psyop and is totally under the control of the CIA. Swift and Kelce are only dating to increase interest in NFL games and the NFL is scripting the games so that the Chiefs will win the Super Bowl. After the Chiefs win the Super Bowl, which as a result of all of this free publicity will surely be the most watched event in human history, both Swift and Kelce will announce their support for Joe Biden and this will give Biden the final push he needs to be reelected president.

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Doug Watt
Doug Watt
25
 

I like to find the good once in a while when I post. I also like to find the good in the younger generation. Franny O’Brien’s story of losing her father at a young age motivated her to remember her father Frank O’Brien as a Notre Dame athlete. The ‘More Than A Number’ series from […]

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Doug Watt
Doug Watt
65
 

In the interest of full disclosure, I have been following Notre Dame football for a very long time. I’m well past the point of blaming officials for a loss and a loss does not mean my weekend is a total loss. I do watch every Notre Dame football game from start to finish regardless of […]

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John H.
John H.
12
 

“…before being traded to the Phillies for a bag of broken bats and a pop-up toaster.” After all these decades I am still quoting the baseball card book. Thanks to modern advances in mass communication, there is available now a slightly different, though not utterly contradictory version of what preceded Phil Linz’s repentant on-field performance. […]

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Doug Watt
Doug Watt
75
 

There were three college football games that were on my must-watch list during the Thanksgiving weekend. All three of the games were Pac-12 games. One of the games was Stanford versus Notre Dame, which was the last college football game to be televised by the Pac-12 television network. The Civil War Game in Oregon, although […]

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Chris O
Chris O
187
 

Legendary college basketball coach Bob Knight passed away Wednesday at his home in Bloomington, IN. Plenty of sources will memorialize, or have already, better than I can. As a Hoosier who grew up during his tenure at Indiana University, I may offer some personal perspective. Every Hoosier athlete of my age who stepped onto a […]

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Doug Watt
Doug Watt
118
 

I watched two games on Saturday. The first game was Oregon versus Washington. The second game was Notre Dame versus USC. The Oregon loss to Washington didn’t bother me, although I was rooting for Oregon. The bittersweet moment was watching a game knowing that this would be the last football season for the Pac 12 […]

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Q-Rating + Ego = Bad Coaching

Jacob Christner
Jacob Christner
571045
 

Here is a history lesson for the uninitiated, especially in this attention span of a fish world.

Tom Landry was an engineer who invented both the most innovative offense of the 20th century, and the most innovative defense of the 20th century. When you see the 4-3 defense with a middle linebacker free to roam most of the field like a knight on a chess board, that’s Tom Landry. Going outside the sport for talent? That was Landry. He picked up Bob Hayes from track and field. and Rafael Septien and Efren Herrera from soccer. Multiple formation offense? Landry. He knew other coaches would take his 4-3 and use it, so he created an offense with the ability to score.

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Doug Watt
Doug Watt
53
 

When it comes to football, I find college football more exciting than professional football. I have followed Notre Dame football from the time that you might get four televised games and you would have to listen to the next six on the radio. The second team I follow is Oregon. My son roomed with an […]

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Doug Watt
Doug Watt
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Notre Dame is second only to the Naval Academy in the number of students that become commissioned Naval officers. There is a shared history between the two schools. This Saturday, the longest intersectional rivalry in college football history will continue. Notre Dame will meet Navy in Dublin, Ireland. Preview Open

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