Blue & Gold Illustrated: America's Foremost Authority on Notre Dame Football
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murphy's Law dan murphy Irish Fans In A Can't-Win Situation W hat a year it's been for Notre Dame's fans. What a thrilling, wild, torturous tease of a year. The past eight months have been one long night on the town with a beautiful lady, followed abruptly by a peck on the cheek and an ice cold shower. What is it that fellow once said about loving and losing? Tis better this way? Lord Tennyson served as the poet laureate for the Irish. But a Fighting Irish sports fan, After enjoying a thrilling 12-0 regular season, Notre Dame football fans he clearly was not. endured the agony of defeat with the 42-14 loss to Alabama in the BCS The trouble started National Championship Game. photo by lon horwedel in September, cleverly disguised as hope. In the months swelled around Notre Dame nation. that followed, Notre Dame toyed with The month that followed was filled defeat and walked away unscathed with enough bad news to make even enough times that hope among its fol- the most chaste Irish fan feel they had lowers ballooned into a sense of invin- paid their penance for all the fun they cibility. On the eve of the BCS National had in the fall. Championship Game, a reporter with "I was furious to be honest with a Southern drawl asked head coach you," senior cornerback Bennett JackBrian Kelly if his team was one of des- son said about his emotions in the tiny. Kelly said he didn't believe in such locker room after the loss to the Crimthings. He was right. son Tide. "It's not even really a onceThe next night, Alabama launched in-a-lifetime experience. A lot of people a 240-pound pin named Eddie Lacy don't experience it all. I was like, what into that balloon of confidence that had the hell, man?"