Blue & Gold Illustrated: America's Foremost Authority on Notre Dame Football
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fighting words Wes morgan among other ridiculous things: @theiphonerules: ���I would have voted for Mitt Romney for #NotreDame BCS tix.��� @cushman_24 ���I was born w/ 1 kidney. W/O doing any research at this point to what a life of dialysis would be like, I might sell my kidney.��� @KyleBiggs: ���terrible, unforgivable things.��� @jasonclark28c: ���put my parents in a nursing home, kiss every member of the team! Run my best friend over!��� But to others, like Middle Tennessee State University freshman Justin Ware, no amount of money is too much for an experience he���ll never forget. That���s why, when Notre Dame kept winning, Ware told his father, Thomas, that if the Irish made it to the title game, he���d sell his truck to get to Miami. It���s a nice ride, too, and he���s only had it for four months. Thomas Ware just laughed, at least until the Irish topped USC in the regular-season finale and his 18-year-old posted an advertisement on Craigslist.com a couple days later. Anyone interested in a 2003 Chevrolet Silverado? It���s pewter, powered by a 5.4-liter Vortec V8 engine, features 20-inch chrome wheels and an eightinch touchscreen radio. Justin���s asking $10,000, but he���ll take the best offer (and he���s received a few already). ���All year long we���ve been undefeated,��� Ware said. ���I promised my dad if they go the national championship game, I���m going somehow. He always thought I was kidding. As soon as I get the offer I want, it���s gone.��� And so are the Wares. What his father doesn���t know is that Justin plans on purchasing two championship game tickets, two round-trip flights and a room for two in Miami. ���I���m going to get his ticket,��� Justin Ware said. ���That���s going to be his Christmas present for about the next three or four years.��� Four years? How about forever? ���Yeah, probably,��� Ware admitted. ���The truck is my baby; I probably wash it more than I wash myself.��� The expected cost of the total trip is around $8,000, which would leave Ware a couple grand for a down payment on a new vehicle. But if he were to blow the entire 10 grand, he���s at peace with that. ���I���m not going to lie; if I don���t have a dime left over after it, I will be completely fine,��� he said. ���But they have to win this game.��� His college buddies think Ware���s nuts; they don���t understand or appreciate such sacrifice for one game. ���They just don���t have any idea how much I love my Irish,��� Ware said. ���They���re No. 3 on my priority list, second to God and my country.��� Ware lives about a block from campus, so he���s not afraid to get his ���lazy butt up and walk every now and then.��� ���If that doesn���t work, I���m going to have to start selling a whole bunch more stuff.��� At least ask for a loan from pops. He���s going to owe you. ��� Assitant Editor Wes Morgan has been with Blue & Gold Illustrated since February 2011. He can be reached at wmorgan@blueandgold.com