Since Notre Dame clearly didn’t play well enough to beat Michigan State yesterday, I offer the following explanations for the Irish’s impossible comeback:
• The rainbow
• Karma, b*tches
• Mascot superiority
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• John L. Smith is a crazy mo-fo
• The rain scrambled the Robot Genius’s circuits… and made him INVINCIBLE!!!
• The curse of Becky
This is, by far, the most important one. Becky has some sort of a flu bug, so she was feeling like crap yesterday and, uncharacteristically for someone who really likes college football, she went to bed during the fourth quarter when USC’s win was still slightly in doubt — and Notre Dame’s impending loss seemed certain. The Irish were down by 10, well into the fourth quarter. But then, just minutes after she went to bed, Chinedum Ndukwe (Becky’s favorite Irish player) recovered a Spartan fumble, and the comeback was on. She was sound asleep by the time Notre Dame completed the miracle. So I think it’s now official: Becky is a curse.
P.S. Becky elaborates here:
The flu saved Notre Dame from the curse of Becky last night. If I was joking before, I think that I’m a believer. I curse ND.
You see, last night, I was feeling seriously under the weather and since I was falling asleep on the couch, I figured it wasn’t worth my time to stay up late to watch ND get its ass kicked by MSU. USC was up 10 points on UA, so I wasn’t concerned about the outcome of that game. I gave Brendan a cranky look and stumbled off to bed, solidly asleep about three minutes after my head hit the pillow.
I didn’t hear Brendan jumping around like a monkey that just sat on a pricker bush. I didn’t see the interception that bounced off the football stands, off the scoreboards, off the MSU player’s ass and into ND’s waiting hands. And I certainly didn’t see the Irish play like a team that had the tiniest bit of fight left in them.
Anyone have any suggestions about some sort of, uh, rain dance-like ritual that we could do that might lift the curse? A pagan sacrifice, perhaps? Or maybe just lighting a candle at the Grotto? Becky will be at the Purdue game on Saturday, and well, Becky’s first ND loss was the Purdue game in ‘04, so perhaps the Purdue game in ‘06 can be the one that finally breaks the curse. But we gotta do something to help the process along…
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Categories: Notre Dame, College Football
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September 24th, 2006 at 12:00:46 pm
Additional possibility: Large Irish crowd contingent never gave up on the team. Things got very loud in the ND section of the stands during the fourth quarter because nobody except a few Spartan fans who thought the game was in the bag (or who couldn’t stand the rain and wind any longer) had left. By the time it was 37-33, the rest of the stadium had gone silent.
September 24th, 2006 at 1:05:24 pm
Ah, perhaps the echoes came out last night.
September 24th, 2006 at 4:48:37 pm
Your boy(me) was in that section and thorugh the hardcore rain and wind the coaches, players, and fans never gave up. Also me and my cousin were the heart of that noise.
September 24th, 2006 at 5:44:04 pm
Well done, JP. Solid work as always.
As for our resident Wiccan, I suggest we tar and feather Becky and refuse to buy imported English goods.
September 24th, 2006 at 6:17:38 pm
A friend of mine took a picture of the rainbow going into the stadium, and took that as a sign for last night’s game. Another friend suggested that the two of you should try to sell your pictures to the bookstore for a poster series. I’ll bet you could make some good $$$. :)
September 25th, 2006 at 10:20:40 am
Some SC Alumn buy this girl a ticket to the ND/SC game–all expenses paid for~ ;O)
September 25th, 2006 at 10:11:57 pm
Actually, I suspect Becky may be more of a jinx than a curse in this situation …