Shenanigans....Chicanery

Heisman week moves right along, going back 3 more years to 1953 for Heisman Trophy winner and 2 time Maxwell Award winning Halfback Johnny Lattner.

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Sadly we are reaching quite a bit far into the past, so video is going to be hard to come by. Today  we have the 1956 Winner: Paul Hornung. Here’s a fun fact, before being known for his politically incorrect recruiting thoughts, he was known as the only Heisman winner from a team with a losing record. That seems impossible now, but when you look at his stats you can start to see why. For starters, Hornung did EVERYTHING. Hornung played QB, ran the ball very well, was happy to intercept it as a Safety, hell he even took care of the place kicking duties. The Golden Boy really did it all.

Gotta love the versatility. GO IRISH!

Continuing Heisman week, lets take a trip back to the halcyon days of yore (such an underrated phrase) to a time when men were Men, 1964. Your Heisman winner, QB #7 John Huarte. Here we’ve got video of Huarte leading the Irish over Bob Griese and Purdue. The main reason I wanted to use this video is because of how awesomely old timey it is. I thought old cartoons just made up these types of news reels. Also enjoy the cameo by Alan Page, NFL Hall of Famer and Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court. Mad props. Enjoy:

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Programming Note: I’m going out of town the next few days, so I’m gonna try and utilize Tumblr’s crazy future post technology. If it doesn’t work however, that’s why.

I kind of enjoyed having string of related posts, so let’s start up a new one. Today we will start featuring the Heisman Trophy winners from the Fighting Irish. For starters, I’ve got to go with the guy who I got to see the most of, Tim Brown. What better way than a highlight of his trophy winning season:

Tony Rice didn’t throw a ton, but when he did, you knew 81 was coming down with it. GO IRISH!!

So we’ve come to the end of our Hawaii Bowl fun. We will leave this land of coaches wearing leis and the strange concept of having names on the backs of jerseys after today. Right before this clip, ND gave up a touchdown to Hawaii to make the score 42-14. Armando Allen however believes in stepping on the throat of an opponent, and responded thusly:

That’s how you answer. GO IRISH!

Here we are on a nice lazy Sunday with the 6th TD in ND’s win in the Hawaii Bowl from last season. While several of these have had play-action fakes or some chicanery to them, this is about as simple as they come. Golden Tate torches his man, again, on a fly route and Jimmy drops a perfect pass in for an easy 6. Sometimes simple is nice

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matt-t:

Hi, Matt Taylor.

phil steele (philsteele042) is now following your updates on Twitter.

He did me too!! I’m not worthy, and expect an unfollow soon, but it certainly made my day

How about a sexy little screen pass for your Saturday viewing pleasure? One of the best things about having Armando Allen in the backfield is the versatility that his speed allows you. Great blocking and solid execution from Jimmy give Armando the opportunity to work his magic.

I want to know if AA had a celebration planned or something w/ as quick as the ref came over to stop him. GO IRISH!

Here we are at the end of the 1st half of the game, ND already up 21-7, surely they will just take that lead into halftime right? WRONG!! Clausen with another playfake and hits Golden Tate, again, this time in the corner of the endzone for 6. Pretty:

Enjoy the weekend. GO IRISH!!

Yesterday’s play was based on a little trickery, some chicanery if you will. Today is more just about Golden Tate taking a gas can, pouring it on the corner, and torching him like the opening scene of American Gangster. Clausen throws a perfect pass to a wiiiiide open Golden Tate who easily saunters in for 6.

That’s just pretty right there. GO IRISH!

Day 2 of my Hawaii Bowl Touchdowns brings us a sexy little Play-action pass. I love Play-actions, I always have. There’s something genuinely amusing about watching a D be completely baffled by the play fake and getting burned. Here we see Jimmy execute a nice fake, show a little mobility in the pocket, and hit a WIDE open David Grimes for six. Enjoy:

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The next few days will highlight the touchdowns from the Hawaii Bowl. Several of them were very pretty, all of them made me incredibly happy, and ND FINALLY got the damn bowl monkey off their backs. Each of these come courtesy of Blue-Gray Sky which if you are a Notre Dame fan and you don’t read…well…what’s wrong with you? This actually features the set up play as well as the TD. The TD was a relatively simple goalline run by Robert Hughes. The set up was far more fun tho as Golden Tate just goes to work.

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Here’s arguably my favorite player on the Notre Dame team right now. If you know me you know how hyped up I get about potential (hell I wrote a whole post on it after National Signing Day last year here). But Mike Floyd is a freak, the dude is a fantastic WR and if you haven’t heard of him yet, you will soon.

7—>3 makes me happy. GO IRISH!

fuckyeahbraves:

fuck yeah take that series from the Mets. We don’t care if every other opening-day starter of the Mets is on the DL, it’s still the Mets, we still hate them with a deep, abiding passion, and we still knocked the shit out of them.

fuck yeah Braves.

Giants up next.