It all started with the most vicious, savage, satisfying ending to a blowout college football game that most of us had ever seen.
Notre Dame Fighting Irish safety Elijah Shumate intercepted Michigan quarterback Devin Gardner’s final pass of the 2014 game in South Bend, sealing the Notre Dame 31-0 victory.
But on a night that marked the end of the regular ND-UM series of football games, and after Michigan had called ND “chicken” for simply beating them to the punch of canceling the series, just intercepting the pass against the hated “rival” wasn’t enough.