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I hate Notre Dame.
People who are Notre Dame football fans and/or alumni of the University in Indiana that is most famous for its football prowess are hard for me to stomach. I know several Notre Dame alums, and they are even more arrogant and conceited about it than you would find of Duke, Northwestern or Harvard grads.
You may think me a jerk for thinking and writing this. You, yourself, may be one of those people who, for whatever reason, root for the Fighting Irish to win their football games. Unless you are an alum of the school, I would ask you: Why?
For some reason, the sportscasts in the Chicago area where I have resided for nearly five decades always seem compelled to report on Notre Dame football scores during the season, often before they report on the Northwestern score or other Illinois schools.
For those of us who root on Chicago-area teams, I really could not give a crap about what Notre Dame does or does not do in football. If their football team never won another game this decade, I would not care one iota.
Nobody epitomizes Notre Dame football in my mind and the mind of many others like Lou Holtz.
He led the Fighting Irish to the National Championship in 1988, forever gaining fame and accolades for his leadership and…
