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Two other points that I thought was great about the atmosphere.
1) At one point in the second half, either a small contingent of the Navy Band or a small contingent of the Irish Band (I think it was Navy's, but I couldn't see where they were, I think they were standing in an entrance-way to the stadium out of my site) began playing "Anchors Away," and the ND student section clapped along.
2) The Mids stayed for our Alma Matter, taking off their "lids" and placing them over their hearts. Quite the return salute.
It was a proud moment for all in attendance--both Navy and Irish.
For a good article:
http://www.ndsmcobserver.com/
med...smcobserver.com
Thanks beef, I just found that article as well, via Blue-Gray Sky, and linked to it.
I originally included the following in my post, but decided to move it to comments because I didn't want to detract from the main point of the post:
I found this article via LA2AL-Quds, who unfortunately felt the need to cite it as proof of "Why USC (or Miami, FSU, Michigan, etc. al) will NEVER be Notre Dame." Right, because Notre Dame is the first and last university in the history of the world to ever do anything classy or respectful. Seriously, it's sad that some Domers can't take credit for something positive and classy that the Irish did without using that positive thing as a bludgeon to classlessly bash their opponents with. Like I said the other day... "holier than thou." It's really, really annoying, and the people who routinely say this stuff need to realizing that they are tarnishing Notre Dame's image with their own arrogant and uncalled-for comments.
I stand by the above paragraph, I just, like I said, didn't want to detract from the overall point about the ND-Navy salute with it.
What really ticked me off about LA2AL-Quds's post is that that's all he said about the Navy thing -- the potshot was the entire content of his post. It's like, that's the best thing he could come up with to say about ND's salute to Navy. Lame ... incredibly lame.
To paraphrase Rick Reilly: we should all cheer for Navy, especially the seniors. They've got a big road game coming up.
thebeef - covers, not lids. Mids are not cans of pork & beans.
A contingent from the Navy band also moved around the stadium and played the ND Victory March several times.
The real higlight of the weekend was the ND Glee Club/Navy Men's Glee Club concert following the game. That's what everyone was talking about on Monday.
Very nice.
Well, if you're going to permanently schedule a team that will always be outmanned on the football field (ironically just the opposite when it comes to the battlefield), you might as well be classy about it.
Andrew, I'm not sure if you're aware of the history of the ND-Navy rivalry, but Notre Dame's president decades ago made a commitment to keep scheduling Navy as long as Navy wants to maintain the rivalry. So it's not like Notre Dame is some bully that insists on playing Navy every year just so we can beat the living sh*t out of them. The ND-Navy series is apparently considered by Navy players to be one of the best things about playing football at the Academy.
Totally overrated.
Support the troops for real: bring them home.
Brendan, I'm not sure how your additional information is relevant to the point of my comment. Why the teams continue to schedule each other has no bearing on my view that, if the doormat and the behemoth are going to continue to collide, the behemoth might as well be classy about it.
Your comment just struck me as overly cynical re: Notre Dame, sort of the mirror image of the holier-than-thou attitude that pisses me off in some Domers. But perhaps I misinterpreted it, or perhaps I simply forgot that, of course you're cynical, you're Andrew. :)
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