Notre Dame selling “Undefeated” DVD set

Notre Dame had one of the more magical seasons in 2012, this cannot be disputed. From opening the season against historic rival Navy in Ireland to defensive stands and overtime victories against programs like Pac 12 champion Stanford, Oklahoma, USC, BYU, Michigan and more along the way the Fighting Irish restored a certain level of pride among the Fighting Irish faithful. That journey led them in to a brick wall against Alabama in the BCS Championship Game of course, but that should not take anything away from what was a season of some redemption for Notre Dame.

Now, you can own all 12 games of Notre Dame’s “Undefeated” season on DVD. Yes, it appears that Notre Dame has a different take on what it means to go undefeated than you may have. Notre Dame 2012: The Undefeated Season should probably include an asterisk of some sort if we are just going to pretend the BCS title never happened.

From the item description:

From the dramatic confrontations against rivals Michigan and USC, to the unforgettable overtime victories against Pittsburgh and Stanford…each game from 2012 is presented as seen on the network broadcasts, without commercial interruption. The navigation menu allows you to jump from quarter to quarter, allowing you to replay your favorite plays and touchdowns that led the Fighting Irish to victory.

The total cost for the 12-DVD set is $79.99, which is not all that bad for the die-hard Notre Dame fans out there. What would it have cost if the 125th season of Fighting Irish football did indeed end with an undefeated season? Will you be buying a set?

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NHL’s Dallas Stars poke fun of Manti Te’o

It seems everybody has a Manti Te’o joke to crack these days. The art of Te’oing has also, begrudgingly, become a thing people do as well. The concept is simple, in that a guy poses with his invisible girlfriend and posts the picture of the fictitious couple on the Internet for all to have a good laugh about.

It’s one thing for regular Joes to do it, but what about when an NHL franchise comes out and has a little fun with it? That is exactly what the Dallas Stars did during a recent game to the lockout shortened season. When panning through the crowd, the Stars introduced “Manti Te’o's girlfriend” to the fans…

Manti Te’o's girlfriend took in a Dallas Stars game recently.

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BCS Championship: Frame by frame of Ha’Sean Clinton-Dix’s fantastic interception

Alabama had no problem with Notre Dame in the BCS Championship Game. Down 28-0 out of halftime, Notre Dame needed to a miracle. Unfortunately for the Irish, their most promising drive of the game to that point ended with a spectacular interveption by Alabama’s Ha’Sean Clinton-Dix.

Clinton-Dix showed great determination in flying in to come up with an interception off a tipped pass by teammate Dee Milliner, who was defending Notre Dame’s DaVaris Daniels along the right sideline. Somehow he managed to take possession, get a toe down and maintain possession to the ground.

It was that kind of night for the Fighting Irish.

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This BCS Championship Game is for the purists

Alabama and Notre Dame meet for the first time since 1987. The Crimson Tide are 0-2 in bowl games, including the 1973 Sugar Bowl.

Since the dawn of the BCS era, this is the game many of us have been waiting for. “We” being the purists of the game.

Don’t get me wrong, USC and Texas was great and deserves a spot among the top games in the history of the sport. Ohio State and Miami also etched a classic between college football powers. But Monday night something different will be in the air in Miami. The aura of college football history filling Sun Life Stadium may go uncontested for years, or decades before anything close to this match-up develops again as we transition in to the era of a four-team playoff.

Notre Dame. Alabama. This is college football history at its finest. Storied college football programs go toe-to-toe for the ultimate prize, and if that does not get you excited about the sport, then what possibly could?

We’re talking about two programs with a combined total of 25 claimed national championships and 1,691 total wins.

The Four Horsemen. Win one for the Gipper. The Golden Domers and Touchdown Jesus.

The Bear. Goal Line Stand. The Kick. The most bowl victories in college football history.

These are two programs who were among college football’s elite on a routine basis in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. They started to fall back to the pack a little bit in the 1990s, leaving fan bases either starving for a return to glory or stuck in their old ways believing their favorite programs could still do no wrong and it would only be a matter of when, not if their school would get back to the top.

Alabama has been back on top of the college football world for a few years now after a long-awaited return to such national prominence. The hiring of Nick Saban resurrected the program and brought Alabama back to a point where winning SEC titles is not a goal, but an expectation that is penciled in at the beginning of the season.

Notre Dame is hoping that this season marks the beginning of a similar level of success. Despite running the table with a 12-0 record, holding the top spot in the polls and BCS standings, road victories at Oklahoma and USC along with home wins against Michigan, Stanford and BYU, the Fighting Irish are a decided underdog against the Crimson Tide, the defending BCS champions.

But Monday night will not be Joe Montana vs. Joe Namath. It is not Knute Rockne vs. Bear Bryant. It is not even Rudy vs. Forest Gump (Forest Gump an easy 13 point favorite in a neutral theater by the way).

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Notre Dame Victory March gets unnecessarily remixed

Adidas, not content to light a torch to college football uniforms, has taken a new direction. This time, Adidas is doing anything and everything they can to completely trash one of college football’s most iconic fight songs, the Notre Dame Victory March.

It is no secret that one of my favorite aspects of college football, one that separates it from the rock-anthem induced soundtracks filling NFL stadiums from coast to coast is the sound of a marching band, 200 or 300 strong in some cases, blasting the local fight song with trumpets and trombones blasting from the stands or from the field. As we have seen time and time again, Adidas has no problem taking one of the classics in the game and providing a completely unnecessary twist on the staples of the game.

Michigan’s uniforms. Notre Dame’s helmet. The list goes on and one.

In some cases Adidas handles the fresh take well, but their shortcomings overshadow any potential successes. So imagine my hesitation when I was sent an email form Adidas asking me to check out this remix of the Notre Dame Victory March, a collaboration between the apparel company and DJ Mick Boogie.

Well, it’s certainly not to my fancy, but I will allow you to be the final judge on this remix, titled We Are Notre Dame. Leave your comments on the song below, as I am confident someone from Adidas will be checking up on it at some point.

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