Your weekly blast from the past is here, with three more random anecdotes about the Notre Dame Fighting Irish upon which I have found it amusing to reflect in this time of no new football. This season is take-machine season, which gets straight to my first thing. People forget...

PTI Pretended This Was a Big Deal

The late 2000s were probably the peak of seething anti-Notre Dame bias within sports media, as the Irish were down and the familiar critiques - overrated, never play nobody, irrelevant - were never more true. The Irish were the nation’s piñata and the good folks at ESPN and elsewhere never hesitated to take a swing, even over the most trivial nonsense.