Now we're finally getting somewhere! Some of these games had serious legacy ramifications for the Brian Kelly era and Notre Dame football as a whole. Part One and the bottom tier can be found here, while Part Two is here. Remember that the formula for this is [(Excitement at the time + Quality of Opponent) [...]
It's candy time. It's time to indulge our sweet tooth and discuss the best, worst, and most underrated sugar sweets this country has to offer. It's a daunting task with seemingly endless options for praise and ridicule. To keep things relatively tight I limited myself mostly to candy bars and hard or soft candy that [...]
This is the next tier of wins for Brian Kelly at Notre Dame, where the competition is a little stiffer and the product on the field a little better. Remember that the formula for this is [(Excitement at the time + Quality of Opponent) * Legacy]. All of these factors are graded on a scale [...]
I'm positive someone at Notre Dame pitched an idea for paNDemic and made up a really snazzy graphic for it. Show it to the world. Should Jeopardy! come on before Wheel of Fortune? I think I prefer Jeopardy! to have the 7:30 time slot but I can never decide. The COVID-19 outbreak and its lasting [...]
With the end of the 2019 football season, Notre Dame football wrapped up its tenth season under Brian Kelly's stewardship. Since 2010, Kelly has amassed a 92-37 record and a unique legacy with the Irish, being among the most successful coaches in ND football history yet still looking for the elusive national championship. This series [...]
Earlier this week, one of those RT-bait Tweets designed to promote response turned up in our Slack discussion. It was right in our wheelhouse. Here it is: Question of the day: Name your favorite game where your team won, but it didn't involve a championship of any kind AND didn't involve your biggest rival. *Bama [...]
We continue our celebration of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish lacrosse graduates with a chat with attackman Stephen Chase! World events kept us from the chance to follow this team on its journey to a national championship, so ND-Atl 2.0 will instead use the time he would have spent writing previews and recaps to catch [...]
In all the years you've been reading our fair site, have we ever told you when we first set foot in the hallowed halls of the House That Rockne Built? Now the truth will come out. A couple of weeks ago our staffers got caught up in a digression in our Slack discussion, as we [...]
Rock may not be dead but it certainly isn't very popular anymore. Take a look over the Billboard list of best-selling albums of 2019 and there are a total of zero traditional rock bands among the top 100. The closest you can get to something in the neighborhood is the pop rock of Panic! At [...]
Welcome back to the Hall of Fame Series here on 18Stripes. If you want to read the prior posts to get a better understand you can go here. Today, we go to the backbone of the 2002 “Return to Glory” season, the defense. This player would become one of the leaders of the defense and [...]
We continue our celebration of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish lacrosse graduates with a chat with defenseman (and Atlantan) Charlie Trense! World events kept us from the chance to follow this team on its journey to a national championship, so ND-Atl 2.0 will instead use the time he would have spent writing previews and recaps [...]
In this time of uncertainty, we college football fans are probably spending more time than usual looking at the past. Part of this is opportunity - there's nothing but time on our hands, and for sports fans used to filling that time with games, there aren't any of those. Another is that plenty of folks [...]
The greatest musical artists of all-time made mistakes. No, I'm not talking about the intrusion of Yoko Ono or the decision to spend 8 minutes and 22 seconds of precious Beatles record space with "Revolution 9." Those are both low-hanging fruit that everyone talks about. I've got other more intriguing things to talk about. As [...]
Welcome back to the Hall of Fame Series here on 18Stripes. After the last couple of posts talking about the best players in modern Notre Dame history that can never make the College Football Hall of Fame due to external circumstances. Today, we begin our journey through the 21st Century of Irish greats who have [...]
We continue our celebration of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish lacrosse seniors with a chat with defenseman Jacob Kanak! World events kept us from the chance to follow this team on its journey to a national championship, so ND-Atl 2.0 (today with help from 18 Stripes original writer Whiskey) will instead use the time he [...]
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