Blue & Gold Illustrated: America's Foremost Authority on Notre Dame Football
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FAN FORUM Irish defensive front seven takes the field I hear the attention-getting open- ing chords of Elmer Bernstein's "The Magnificent Seven." For some reason, every time the I HEAR A SYMPHONY Trenton, Mich. Matt Hart an awesome defense! — and saw a classic. Or I saw much of it … I think I saw a lot of it, at least. There is no replacement for being I was at the Stanford game — what DISTANT REPLAY successful Irish lacrosse team, a Notre Dame professor/scientist, Mrs. Kelly and her cancer charity, and others, were properly honored during the game. It is sad that the 80,000-plus attendees didn't see much of them. And it is too bad that we can't watch clips of our Notre Dame greats dur- ing the frequent and interminable TV timeouts, especially during this 125th anniversary of the football tradition. there, but it would have been nice to know what just happened after every play. We were using my friend's bin- oculars to look for a TV in the press box, hoping to learn what we just saw. The great Dave Casper, the uber- Blue & Gold Illustrated P. O. Box 1007 Send your letters to: Letters BE HEARD! Notre Dame, IN 46556 or e-mail to: lsomogyi@blueandgold.com teams? We would love to cheer the success of all of them. There is NO VALID REASON for an innovative, modern, competitive, and outstanding university to hide behind "tradition" to explain why they de- prive fans of a full game-day experi- ence without a Jumbotron. The only people in the country that And why not show clips of the other care to know what just happened in the game — and can't find out — are the people that paid for a ticket, hotel, gas, and weekend to be there. If you stay at home you know what happened and can replay it 10 times. If you go to the game, you wait until you get home and watch your DVR recording. Please get a Jumbotron! It will en- hance and display Notre Dame's tradi- tion, not harm it. ticle on how Frank Leahy has been overlooked. To me, he was the greatest coach Notre Dame had in my time. People either love Notre Dame or How I enjoyed Lou Somogyi's ar- LOVE FOR LEAHY hate them. The same may be said for Leahy, who sometimes didn't endear himself to the writers on the sports beat. He loved his alma mater, which he referred to as "Our Lady's School." I can remember in grammar school on a Friday afternoon the good nuns would have us pray that Notre Dame wins on Saturday — and they always added no one gets hurt. I also believe that Leahy was forced Paul Hass Franklin, Ind.