Another “Cool” Joe Notre Dame QB

Because this is the dead part of the year so far as Notre Dame Football tickets goes, we’re going to take a step back and look at a few of the more famous Notre Dame figures and moments over the years to get everybody good and caught up. Today, we will take a look at Joe Theismann, the former Fighting Irish QB, who had a successful NFL career, and is now a sports commentator.

Joe Theismann was barely 5′7”, 145 when he arrived as a new recruit at Notre Dame in 1968. He sat the bench his freshman year, but then an injury to the starting QB gave Joe a shot at starting his sophomore year. He was an instant success. Theismann went on to set Notre Dame records for most passing yards in a game (526), yards in a season (2,429) and touchdowns in a season (16). Few people probably know that you also could have gotten Notre Dame Fighting Irish tickets (which would have been available at StubHub.com if the internet had been around then) to see Joe Theismann play baseball in college. In fact, he was drafted buy the Cleveland Indians out of college.

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