The 2018 Rankings Are Up
Yes, rankings, not ratings. That must mean that it's time for...you guessed it: another season of Notre Dame football! What better way is there to "come to the end of another busy broadcast day"* than with a post about the greatest football** team in the history of the universe***?
Anyway, the point we're circuitously approaching is that Notre Dame is ranked #12 in the Associated Press's preseason college football poll. Obviously the voters are suffering from delusions about at least 11 teams, and it's up to Notre Dame to prove it this fall. Their first game will take place on September 1 in a home game against #14 Michigan, the first of five games against teams already ranked in the AP's top 25. Go Irish!****
* For you youngsters out there, that was the sort of phrase commonly used in the United States around 1 or 2 in the morning when, believe it or not, television stations would stop broadcasting for a few hours. This really did happen, starting I not-know-when and continuing until at least some point in the '80s, if memory serves.
** Not to be confused with soccer.
*** Yes, I'm being tongue in cheek here. (90+%.) But this disclaimer will disappear for the duration of the college football season.
**** Also for your newcomers, fear not: with very, very rare exceptions you'll only have to suffer/ignore (or enjoy, if you're a ND fan) a pair of posts on game days; otherwise, it will be business as usual.
Reader Comments (1)
Oh no, its not that time of year again when the so-called "Irish" come out and play the worlds slowest field sport. Real Irish people play the fastest field sport in the world, Hurling, although some consider it more of a religion than a sport. If you are not familiar with it, it is a 4,000 year old game where two teams of 15 carrying sticks (hurley) chase a hard ball (sliotar) around a field trying to score goals and points. Imagine someone striking a ball with a baseball bat a few inches from your face and your job is to stop that ball going forward with your baseball bat and not get killed in the process. Its an incredibly skilful game and if you ever get a chance to see one live then go. You won't regret it!
Anyway, we will suffer the ND posts only because of your wonderful and insightful commentary on the greatest game in the history of the universe*.
*Chess of course!
[DM: Interesting - it looks like a baseball-y version of lacrosse. It looks like the fatalities are waiting to happen, but it must be safer than it seems when the players know what they're doing. About football, there are breaks after each play, but it isn't slow during a play. If the action was continuous for all 60 minutes and the rules were roughly the same, everyone would end up dead by the game's finish.
Thank you for the compliment and for your indulgence.]