This Is The Year...I Can Feel It!

YES! It’s finally here! My favorite day of the whole year: USC vs. ND. And this year, you can bet your Blue Moons that Notre Dame is going to win!

I know this has nothing to do with San Francisco sports, but spare me. It’s been 7 long years of trial and tribulations for the Notre Dame faithful. But this year will be the year where the Bush Push becomes history. Horrifying Images of Leinart stretching his hands barely past the end zone line will finally be replaced by euphoria-producing images of multiple Clausen-to-Tate Touchdowns.

Overdramatic you say? Well just picture this:

The date is October 15th and a young naive Megan is sitting in her new dorm at Harvard sophomore year. Knowing a total of about 5 people, Megan is completely overwhelmed by the many hot, older and mature seniors in Currier. But thankfully, Notre Dame was there to make her feel a bit better. She has prime seats in front of the projector screen to watch ND finally break the streak of losses to their hated rival. And it’s all going so beautifully! Not only is ND hanging in there, but also there are about 50 Currierites all sitting in the Fishbowl who are having fun jawing with her! Sure, they are all rooting for USC to annoy her, but with ND up by 3 it doesn’t faze Megan at all. But, as Megan should have known, it was all too good to be true. With Bush’s miraculous 4th down catch, the good will that ND has built up throughout the game begins to crumble. So, with only 1:30 left in the game, Megan plasters a strained smile onto her face, and JT (a new “friend” who decided to sit next to her in order to partake from her chips and salsa) removes his arm from her vise like grip to prevent any more nail-clawing injuries (fyi, he never sat next to me ever again, lol).

But then a miracle happens! Mays knocks the ball out of pretty-bow Leinart’s hands and it’s a fumble to end the game!! Megan begins jumping up and down, hugging Matt Friendly (her arch nemesis throughout the game), and throwing smug smiles to the T-5 guys behind her. But then, AGAIN cruel fate plucks happiness away from her. The ball is knocked out of bounds! No recovery! USC ball! AWWWW!! Just picture Megan’s heart-broken face! Not only did the ball miraculously bounce USC’s way (which um, under Touchdown Jesus’s watch should never happen), but also the refs spotted the ball WAY to close. So what does Megan do? She puts her game face on and prepares herself for one more play...4th down...for all the marbles..

And LEINART IS STOPPED...YESSS...WAIT...NOOOO!! Bush literally pushes Leinart over the end zone after the ND defense had stuffed him. Megan collapses onto her chair, head in hands crying. No joking. Real tears roll down her face as victory was so cruelly snatched from her grasp. Everyone in the Fishbowl, aware that she really is hurt, tries to comfort her, but to no avail. Notre Dame has lost.

So no...I am not being over dramatic. But don’t worry about me. As I said, this is the year. Saturday at 12:30 ND is going to come through for me! At least you better hope so...or you'll be treated to a very bitter post come Saturday night ;P

GO IRISH!!!