Early Thursday morning as I was just about to wake the kids up for school, I stumbled across Eric Hansen’s article that the home sellout streak for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team will end this Saturday.
At first glance, it felt a little disheartening. After all, this will be the first time since Thanksgiving Day in 1973 that the Irish will be unable to say they sold out the House that Rockne built.
But not really — like all the way around, not really.
Jude said it best:
We all know how ridiculous this streak has been, and the fact that Jack Swarbrick called Eric Hansen up to fill him in on it coming to an end, says quite a bit about the mirage the university had created over the past 20 years.