For God and Ulster and Michigan...

As readers may know by now, I'm hopelessly in love with college football. Within that realm, I follow the University of Michigan. Today, the Wolverines travel to South Bend, Indiana to face Notre Dame. The two most successful programs in college football history go face to face in what is, given their respective recent travails, a Cripple Fight for the ages. UPDATE: Well, that didn't go as well as it might have did it? Always tough to win when you give the opposition a three touchdown start...

I think I've said before that I don't care for the Fighting Irish:

It's often said that the definition of intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing opinions simultaneously. Perhaps so. But the Notre Dame fanbase specialises in clinging to a brace of emotions, namely paranoia and entitlement. This is a caustic and unhealthy mix prejudicial to sound mental health.

Sadly, even shamefully, I've never actually attended a UM-ND game. I was supposed to go a few years ago, but work or something equally foolish intervened. Working on the doubtless juvenile presumption that sport is enlivened not diminished by good-natured sectarianism, my contribution to the festivities was limited to suggesting that my Wolverine pals fly this flag at the tailgate:

I don't know how many Notre Dame fans got the joke. (That's the Red Hand of Ulster, in case you didn't recognise the flag.)

Bonus coverage: here's a piece I wrote last year for the Sunday Business Post in Dublin on "The Decline and Fall of the Fighting Irish".

Also, below the fold, evidence emerges that John McCain is no friend to the Irish...

Go Blue!

(For proper pre-match coverage see: Mgoblog and the Rakes of Mallow respectively)

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[Panenka'sChip]

As ever, I hope the Wolverines get their asses well and truly kicked by the Irish.

I was lucky enough to visit South Bend once for a match and the atmosphere was superb That will be cranked up a notch today. I've found somewhere online to watch it too, if you're interested in the URL.

And while college ball is a great sport to watch, perhaps you could enlighten us on your decision to support Michigan, which is something akin to choosing to support Man United at football, like so many citizens of other countries do. Gloryhunter!

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Rudy sucked.

Go blue.

Beat ND!

[Panenka'sChip]

Go Irish!

You can at least console yourself with a Selkirk win Alex...Michigan suck. Just haven't been able to convert possesion into enough points.

[Nathan P. Origer]

I love, generally, what you've to say, Massie, but, well, I hope you've, miserably, been watching this rain-soaked trouncing. Just as, someday, the Irish shall reclaim Ulster, the Irish of Notre Dame subdue the heretical northerners from Ann Arbor, who, according to various shirts that I have seen, is something of strumpet.

Cheers, and Go Irish!

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