No circumstances could make me happier as I return to this space after a long paternity hiatus than these - the Notre Dame Fighting Irish just got a bigger win than any in my lifetime, and I get to talk about how it happened.
In an amazing bit of trivia, my daughter - who turned two months just before Christmas - was in fact older at the time of Notre Dame’s 23-10 win over the Georgia Bulldogs in the Sugar Bowl than I, her 31-year-old father, was the last time the Irish won a postseason game of this significance on Jan.