Posted: May 1st, 2008 - by: John Wilson

Blatant Notre Dame Favoritism

I probably don’t have to remind you how much everyone loves Notre Dame.

Though, Rudy is one of my favorite movies, it doesn’t take much press before I’m tired of hearing about the Irish. Hell, they have their own television station. At the end of the 2007 season, when Notre Dame was struggling to do anything, ESPN and Fox Sports were still tooting the Notre Dame horn, taking up for the coach and saying it was simply a down year in a “storied history.” I can’t image what it would be like if Notre Dame was any good (but I doubt we’ll have to worry about that for awhile.

This rant was initiated when I came to work today and flipped over my daily Fox Sports calendar for my morning nugget of sports trivia. When I noticed the tell-tale signs of a football trivia day, I began longing the days of football seasons passed, and doing the mental-math to figure out the number of days before the Mountaineers kick-off. Here’s what I read:

At the end of the 2006 regular season, Notre Dame senior Brady Quinn ranked ninth in career passing touchdowns (93) and 10th in career passing yards (11,614) for all-time NCAA division 1-A football records.

So?

Since when in this country is 9th and 10th good enough to mention…much less be calendar bound? Since there are about seven sports that are represented in this calendar, that leaves only 52 football tips. My non-scientific recollection says that half of the tips have been NFL and half college. That means only 26 questions ALL YEAR cover college football (America’s Pass-Time). Tweny-six questions and we have to hear about an over-hyped quarterback, on a declining football program.

Next thing you know I’ll be reading trivia questions about Tim Tebow’s junior high school passing records.

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