Defending Notre Dame Football Fans

Oftentimes a sports writer will get up enough nerve to write an article about the problem he has with fans of various sports teams. You get this kind of thing every once in a while and the articles are pretty much always just excuses to get revenge for a bad expereicne or two. It would be pretty hard to accurately assess the exact level of hatred that people have for certain sports fans, or to get an actual number on the annoyance of certain fans in college football because so much is perception, rumor and jealousy. I mean, if you had to rank the most annoying fans in the college football world, you would probably not have a great amount of experience to fall back upon, because you probably saw the majority of your games at one stadium, and are the supporter of one team. When a college football writer goes to enough games, he feels that he has the ability to assess the entire situation.

As you will see with one of the latest examples, Waillele Sallas’ Accuscore article, bias overwhelms whoever writes one of these things. I like how everyone says that the Notre Dame fans (usually the Notre Dame bloggers, though Waillele claims “the Irish faithful” as a whole are the perpetrators) are blaming Ty Willingham for the mess this year. Well, Waillele, this is a Notre Dame blog. There doesn’t appear to be any blaming of Wilingham going on. In fact, I have yet to see any actual Ty-blaming on the internet or otherwise. All I ever see is writers lambasting the nameless and reference-less community out there that is, somewhere, blaming Ty for not recruiting. It’s a clever trick, but you Notre Dame haters need to cite your sources when you make claims that implement the entire Notre Dame nation. Oh, and Waillele, who should I blame for your name? I just want to have some actual data for my next blog, because otherwise Ty takes the fall for “Waillele,” too.

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