Here’s a tragic story. Pangborn (my dorm) opened sometime in the 70s as a guy’s dorm…obviously. The mascot was the Pangborn Violence. At some point, when it became a girls dorm the mascot changed to the Pangborn Phoxes. Horrible. We tried to form a grassroots movement my sophomore year to change it back to the Violence. No one would listen :-( There are still some Pangborn Violence shirts floating around somewhere.

Also, I was hoping for a better performance out of Harbaugh…just one hat throw?? I was waiting for him to kick his hat up and down the sidelines. Remember when that happened in Cleveland? I can’t remember who that was…a Seattle manager maybe? I’d love to see a video of that again.

That is a bummer. You guys should be the Violent Femmes. Best of both worlds.

It’s all about the Carroll Hall Vermin!

“Busch Light might have been the mascot of my dorm” = Brilliant!

With the crackdown on fun at ND these days, I can’t believe they haven’t asked some dorms to change their names. Case in point, my old stomping grounds, O’Neill Hall is the Angry Mob.

Sprout, good news, booze bob did some research and figured out that Sparks is in fact liquid energy, pour it into a glass sometime and you’ll see the neon glow indicative of liquid energy.

I think some Props should have been givien to the blessed men of Alumni Hall, While there is no alliteration, the history behind is should be more then enough to make up for it. One of Notre Dame’s former mascot was the terrier and often had an Irish terrier on the side line as our mascot. Clashmore Mike was the name of this dog. The Irish terrier was selected by Knute Rockne himself.

and honestly I forget the rest of the story enough to accurate quote it. But that is why we are the Alumni Dogs, as an Homage to one of the original mascots of the school and to Knute Rockne himself. Also if you were to walk around Alumni Hall and look at the architecture, minus the gargoyles on the Main circle tower, if you head just north of that you will see several Irish terriers and Knute Rockne above our rectors window.

So while it is not a clever pun on ones name or an attempt to convey superiority and strength, our mascot comes from a more humble source, The school of Our Lady’s Tradition.

as for Abuse: it is one of the Drumline cadences that we play when get a Sack or a major hit on an opposing team. it is a relatively short cheer and I am sure they are rarely ready to show it when we do play it. But that is why its there.

**the website I listed should have some information on Clashmore Mike and Notre Dame as terriers, I did not read it fully nor do I know how accurate it is, but more evidence for the Alumni Dawgs

Right on Ken. Thanks for the insight. I never knew that about the terrier.

And as for the Abuse sign, please don’t let this deter any cheerleaders from writing in to Eric and I.

Whoa whoa whoa, Eric and Sprout. The part of the story I don’t like is that the two Subway Alumsgave up kicking the field goals after an hour. They didn’t trying their other leg or call Golden Tate or anything, they laid on the ground like goons. You gotta think ‘You got a show. You got a responsibility.’ If your field goal kicker needs motivation you don’t kick for an hour then call it quits. You get your arse out there and you kick that humpin field goal.

Great Show Guys!!

Thanks Ken, I never knew about the terrier either. Although I’m really glad we have moved on from it.

It’s awesome for Alumni Hall to keep the tradition going but I’m terrified that if we were still the Notre Dame Terriers we would have some poor guy stuffed in an oversized terrier outfit roaming the endzones (see Georgia Bulldogs) and Charlie Weis’ son would be following his dad around with a real terrier on a leash.

Stumbled on your show last week! Great stuff? You still got any Crist Redshirts left??

Keep up the good work.. and Fuck Michigan!

I just got caught up on all your guys shows this week and I want to let you know that anytime the show acknowledges both A River Runs Through It and Sparks in the same episode, you know you are on the right track.
I wouldn’t mind seeing Notre Dame knock UNC down a peg, so I’ll be routing for them while the Boilermakers will likely hand me another disappointment.
So you know, the old cases of Sparks used to have a picture of a man drinking a lightning bolt. And yes, I have bought cases of Sparks before.

You’ve never met anyone from Farley, huh? How about Ms. Elizabeth, Ms. Erin and Ms. Claire?!?!?!!?

@Ian - unfortunately we are all out of shirts. But we plan on making more. We’ll keep you posted.

@Pat - I can only one day hope to achieve your greatness for all things Sparks.

@Claire - I’ll propose the same bet I made with Elizabeth…what dorm did I live in during college? See? Haha. Sorry for not knowing though…you are all the finest.

John Daly’s nickname is the Lion.

My wife threw my old Pangborn Violence shirt out. It caused a lot of strife in the house. Who cares that I could no longer wear it, and it had some minor pinhole burns in it?

I know it’s not technically a dorm, but how could you leave Off Campus “Crime” off your list?

@JoePa: If you have proof that John Daly was a resident of Lyons Hall we’ll immediately move them to the top.

As someone who was kicked out of Farley in 1973 to make room for women, I can say authoritatively that Farley used to be a great dorm.

And my senior year house on Eddy Street is now a vacant lot, as is the original Corby’s where I actually spent most of my time that year.

I feel homeless.

By the way, this is my first week watching your show. It won’t be my last.

Alright, so I know my dorm shares the name of that classless univeristy in the west, we were orginially built as temporary housing, and we are the campus bomb shelter, but where is the love for the Stanford Studs and the Cinderblock Palace of Love?

The Cinderblock Palace of Love?? Haha…for its namesake, I hope it is open after parietals.

And don’t worry, we’re saving our talk of Stanford for our dorm Intramural Football Championship show.

The Studs may not be the best dorm nickname out there, but babytev is easily the best screen name this website is ever going to see.

Seriously, do not plug VLiq unless you are going to plug other ND owned bars that have far less attitude from the staff, e.g. Lucky’s on Clark or (non-Irish owned) Blue Bayou or Cullen’s.
Other than that, props and keep it up boys!

Breen-Phillips Babes? Unless things have changed radically, BP is more commonly known as the Bay of Pigs…

I just want to thank you guys for the props and shout out for some old ND T-shirts. Your show covers the spectrum of all of the IRISH fans.(except for AA members) I’m still waiting for a running and kicking game myself.Until Charlie starts yelling and demanding the excellence of these commitments and talented recruited classes, we will not achieve football domination.He seems to have taken on a nice, be kind too all personality without the LOUUUUU … holtze” BEAT ‘EM DOWN “mentality.It seems we’ve lost our edge and killer instinct to “shut the door” on our opposition and leave a crack open so they can find us in our omnicient demeanor (being NOTRE DAME)and we shake thier hands as they admirably come close to pulling off a “luck of the IRISH” finish.
I WANT DEDICATION
COMMITMENT
AND …most of all
PASSION! Passion my friends will lead you to heart break and failure.But here at the UNIVERITY of NOTRE DAME, We do not fail, we do not get heart broken.We STOMP the hearts of those that fail to understand our COMMITMENT and DEDICATION,that is our passion.

from a drunken IRISH fan
to you………………

GO IRISH!

Carroll Hall Vermin!

“We’re Rude, and You’re NOT!”

Hey guys, as a Howard woman, I had to let you know that we didn’t change our name to the Ducks until I was there, so sometime after 1990.

@Cathryn: According to the residence hall site it said it was ‘87 but I will definitely take your word for it. Were you part of the naming committee? and how many copies of “Howard the Duck” do you own?

You guys ROCK!!!! I’m down South and each week when I’m dying for Saturday’s Notre Dame game and it’s only Wednesday…you get me through it. Keep up the good work.

On the kicking game: Is Charlie seriously telling me that our punter or other kicker can’t make 1 out of 8 or whatever it is field goals? Maybe in practice, Walker’s great and Burkhart stinks, but maybe, just maybe in a game situation, Burhart’s money. At worst, what? He goes 2 for 8?

On you trying not to cuss at games…it’s a good thing to do, just hard sometimes…so I’m gonna try to keep this as clean as possible with some code words:

A big relations you to Michigan and a one finger salute to you Jim Harbaugh…may you choke on a whale rooster and die. To all those doo doo heads at ESPN and other media outlets who continously rip Notre Dame daily, stuff a big fat gorilla Richard up your donkey and gargle some hairy rhino orbs, bunch of curvies!

Haha. I’m pretty sure I cracked your code. Great points.

i think it’s also important to point out that zahm is now officially know as zahm house. it may be my only lasting legacy at notre dame.

once again i will not be able to watch. i expect updates sprout.

@babytev Nicely done on the true Stanford mascot. Sorry to Father Griffin and all, but I will always be a Stanford Stud. How did the vote ever go in the favor of the Griffins?

@Eric and Sprout.. excellent idea on the field goal kicking. Disappointed in your talents, but appreciative in your inspiration. Three beers for you. (we’ll send you raw footage if you want to plug in somewhere)

@everyone else.. Where you at with your field goals? No beers for you. But enjoy some Friday humor@
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_a7yG4rKXPg

Simply amazing Stephen.

I’ll shoot you an email to get the raw footage.

Everyone else, let’s get those cameras rolling!

Nice work Stephen. Send it to Charlie immediately.

We didn’t want to show us knocking our field goals through because we thought it would deter everyone else from sending them in.

Great show guys! The mascot analysis was hysterical. Oh, and Sprout…I am also a huge Sparks fan. Sooo delicious and malty…

The beginning of this weeks show inspired me to throw out the gauntlet.
I’ll be down for the Pitt game and I’d like to challenge any of you to a shotgun. Back in my prime (early 90s) I was timed at 1.29secs. So we’ll have to hook up for the pregame.
By the way…has anyone else heard the rumor of this kicker from William and Mary? Supposedly he’s been pushing ND to give him a tryout. I guess Brown finally went out to see him kick after he got on irisheyes.com and posted some smack talk. From what I heard, from 50yds he’s M-O-N-E-Y. I still say to test a kicker correctly, put him on the 5 and the far has mark. If he can make that angle, he’s in like Flynn.

Shoot me an email if anyone is interested in going fo the shotgun record at the Pitt game. phillip.c at gmail.com

I love a good shotgun challenge. I think we are gonna have a pretty big crew for the Pitt game so we’ll definitely get something going. Stay tuned for details.

Sounds like a plan. My buddy’s mom runs her own Bed and Breakfast about 1 block from the Linebacker. We’ll probably mosey on over to the south lots from there.
Keep me updated….I’m stretching my liver at this very moment.

I sat on the couch and caught up on all of these episodes today, and I definitely did not waste my time. Great job fellas. I’m going to get back to enjoying my busch light now (much needed after a sorry day of college football for me). And remember Sprout, Sparks is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.

I love a great Shawshank quote, nice work Booze Bob.