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Things People Forget About Notre Dame Football: Cursed Calls, Proto-Memes and a Very Weird W

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One of my favorite Instagram follows is a page simply titled People Forget, which periodically posts amusing factoids about a broad spectrum of topics - sports, history, pop culture and more. Its moniker is meant to mimic the start of a sentence recalling one of these tidbits, as in, “People forget that...” etc. A representative sample:

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In the time-to-kill spirit of the offseason, I’ve decided to mine my extensive, unjustifiable storehouse of Notre Dame Fighting Irish football knowledge - mostly from the last 20 years or so, to be fair - and deliver a few similar nuggets to the OFD faithful on a semi-regular basis (i.