FIRST!
ConchoBar | Email | Homepage | 06.20.08 - 2:19 pm | #

Roderick Bone??
belden | Email | Homepage | 06.20.08 - 2:35 pm | #

From the typewriter of the wonderfully-named Tex Maule, comes this gem from 1957, when ND halted Oklahoma's win streak at 47, held them scoreless (first time the Sooners had been blanked for 123 games) and rained on the State's 50 Birthday Celebration Parade.

Link here ..

http://vault.sportsillustrated.c...899/1/ index.htm
Burbank Steve | Email | Homepage | 06.20.08 - 4:16 pm | #

SI Vault is great. The link that shows you all of NDs cover pics is kinda cool:
http://vault.sportsillustrated.c.../1/24/ index.htm

I definitely like the one with Jim Flanagan after the victory over FSU:
http://vault.sportsillustrated.c.../9408/ index.htm

Is it football season yet?

--LA Domer
LA Domer | Email | Homepage | 06.20.08 - 4:16 pm | #

Judging from the link above, ND hasn't had an SI cover since '96. Is that accurate?
Domer Guy | Email | Homepage | 06.20.08 - 5:25 pm | #

Don't you remember the one from Ty's first year with Stovall catching a pass vs. MSU? I believe the headline was "Return To Glory" with a subtext of "What a Difference a Coach Makes"
KWH | Email | Homepage | 06.20.08 - 5:48 pm | #

http://images.google.com/imgres?...l%3Den%26sa% 3DN
KWH | Email | Homepage | 06.20.08 - 5:50 pm | #

"What a difference a somnambulent golfer makes"
Fighting Binny | Email | Homepage | 06.20.08 - 6:19 pm | #

Just before the 2006 season started, I believe SI had Brady, Travis and Zibby posing on the cover. ND was then ranked No. 2 behind OSU.
Don E. Brook | Email | Homepage | 06.20.08 - 7:44 pm | #

August 22, 2006.

Here's the link.

http://vault.sportsillustrated.c...10436/ index.htm
Don E. Brook | Email | Homepage | 06.20.08 - 7:58 pm | #

yeah, but those were regional covers. If you page forward and back, you'll see tOSU, Texas, LSU, USC etc. made 'covers' of the CFB preview.
indy | Email | Homepage | 06.20.08 - 9:09 pm | #

Don E,

I called the '06 trap ranking.

Domers and Domeys wouldn't buy it.

The old Domer-Cassandra . . . . thing.

SIGH.
ThE LoSt BoY | Email | Homepage | 06.20.08 - 11:22 pm | #

Regional covers are a crock. That's not the way God intended magazine covers to be. One nation, one cover.
Voice in the Wilderness | Email | Homepage | 06.20.08 - 11:25 pm | #

You sure about that Lost Boy?

We probably beat GT, based on history - if nothing else. For some reason, they haven't done well against us. GT has good athletes, so I expect a strong game.

My only concern in the PSU game is their LB's. They will play the way OSU did - give us the run and play the pass. Grimes & TE's will need big games. Weis will have to be patient.

Michigan games are usually decided by (gulp) 7 or less. If we lose to Michigan, our kicking game will lose it.

I still think MSU is a trap game - being right after Michigan. We take MSU because our strong road record and our new found defensive depth.

We always seem to have one choke game a year v. middle-of-the-road programs. This year we have Purdue, Stanford and UCLA all in-a-row at home. Although we have 2 weeks for UCLA. They all have the weapons to beat our DB's and eek out a win with sub par ND kicking. After that, smooth sailing until USC.

I think we take the USC game. They cannot replace Bush (once-in-a-decade NFL player) and Leinart (4th & long audible, anyone?). We are on the road with faster LB, and finally (whew!)college-level CB's. However, we played like garbage on D v. Stanford last year. Watch out for season-ending West-Coast night games!

An early one-loss (Mich or another [vomit] MSU choke) ND team may be hard to keep out of the title game.
ThE LoSt BoY | Email | Homepage | 08.29.06 - 1:59 pm | #

Looks to me like your post was in line with everyone else who figured ND would beat USC and have a great shot at the national championship game.

Let's try to tone down the "I told you so" comments, especially when they aren't really true. It's never fun when you injure your shoulder trying to pat yourself on the back.
Pat | Email | Homepage | 06.21.08 - 12:50 am | #

Judging from the link above, ND hasn't had an SI cover since '96. Is that accurate?

No, the comeback win against Michigan State (Ty's first season) was on the cover (the glorious shot of Maurice Stovall catching a TD pass with the stands of Spartan Stadium in the background. 9/30/02.
DJ | Email | Homepage | 06.21.08 - 1:35 am | #

Whoops. KWH posted it before I did. Always read the thread first.... :(
DJ | Email | Homepage | 06.21.08 - 1:36 am | #

HAH! Hilarious, Pat.
kmf | Email | Homepage | 06.21.08 - 10:45 am | #

Pat,

Thanks for the archive-dive & TLB anti-Kool-Aid smack down!

RE: the trap ranking post. I recall saying #2 was a leeetle generous given loss of Mo-Sto, Fasano, same DB's (what "college DB's?!!"), same DC. Thought I was in Hell with all of the flames (Whoosh!). A handful thought I was right, most lit the gas. The trap ranking post ("We didn't deserve #2") was right (arg!) -hence the Cassandra ref's. I wish we would have gone 13-0 and been even more wrong-er (intended) wrt W-L!

I don't recall when I started calling for Minter & Polian to get run. I remember catching Hellfire for it.

Everyone blows the ole W-L thing, occasionally. I Kool-Aided the U$C call - "Quinn to Mc-Drop!" Sorry for being one game off. Last year my prediction was pathetic. Had to turn in my ND crystal ball.

At least the important crystal ball worked. I bailed out of the market at the top.

2008: 6-6 +/- 1. Won't try to predict how we get there (wink!). Just win a Godforsaken bowl game!
ThE LoSt BoY | Email | Homepage | 06.21.08 - 12:23 pm | #

Here's another:

http://vault.sportsillustrated.c...10535/ index.htm
Danny | Email | Homepage | 06.21.08 - 6:31 pm | #

Zorich was my favorite player when I was a kid. I remember going for the short football jersey so it could ride high like his. I have his signed photo hanging high in my office. We need this type of attitude on the team. He's a fighter and he kicks ass! Thanks, Zorich for the memories and the lessons.
Migs | Email | Homepage | 06.21.08 - 6:52 pm | #

Faust recruited more than enough talent to win a NC - just a sad waste of collegiate skill. I know Ty was bad...I know Davie was the boob. I hated sitting in the stands watching Boob blow out his quarteback's knee on a planned safety...or the annual patheticathon between MSU and Ty - pick any of them. But the most frustrating time watching ND football had to be 1981-1986. All that talent wasted on the most inane play calling...if I ever meet Blair Kiel, I owe him a supreme apology. Forgive me.
yago | Email | Homepage | 06.21.08 - 8:48 pm | #

yago, you are so right. Those five years were the end of the innocence. No school on earth would have given that moron Gerry Faust more than three years with the incredible talent he had to work with. And I hope to God that ND never again lets a complete incompetent have so much time to muck it all up.
Voice in the Wilderness | Email | Homepage | 06.21.08 - 9:36 pm | #

Thanks for pointing out the cover(s) that didn't appear on SI's site. I guess what I'm really wondering then, is why this archive isn't accurate/up-to-date?
Domer Guy | Email | Homepage | 06.22.08 - 1:22 am | #

Roderick "Roddy" Bone was an excellent safety who got somewhat lost in the shuffle when younger talent supplanted him on the depth chart. Stacy Toran was a class behind Rod, and Joe Johnson was two years younger. Both of those guys played/started as freshman, and Bone never really emerged.
Bone did become a male model, and appeared in several late '80's music videos (I cannot recall which ones).
Voice in the Wilderness | Email | Homepage | 06.22.08 - 7:59 am | #

Actually, he became a model, as he had already achieved being male.
Voice in the Wilderness | Email | Homepage | 06.22.08 - 8:02 am | #

I want to give a great Heads Up to the new book 'What Though the Odds' by Haley Scott. I picked it up at Amazon.com and just finished reading it. A very emotional, moving account of the 1992 tragedy of the ND womens swim team. It really details the horror of that terrible bus crash, but also what makes the Notre Dame family so great. On a personal note, it just brought back so forcefully my pride in being a graduate and a member of the Notre Dame extended family. Every person who loves and follows our school must read this.
Bill Greany | Email | Homepage | 06.22.08 - 11:13 am | #

Voice,

With a name like that, it sounds like he would be in a slightly different "modeling" field, with coworkers named "Kiara" and "Jenna" and so forth.
Anonymous | Email | Homepage | 06.23.08 - 1:53 am | #

Pat,

"It's never fun when you injure your shoulder trying to PAT yourself on the back."

Isn't that your SIGNATURE move? (all puns intended, of course).

Also, for the slow witted like myself:
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som·nam·bu·late /sɒmˈnæmbyəˌleɪt, səm-/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[som-nam-byuh-leyt, suhm-] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation

–verb (used without object), -lat·ed, -lat·ing.

to walk during sleep; sleepwalk.

[Origin: 1825–35; < L somn(us) sleep + ambulate]

—Related forms
som·nam·bu·lant, adjective, noun
som·nam·bu·la·tion, noun
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atepesm | Email | Homepage | 06.23.08 - 11:18 am | #