Meet Touchdown Jesus!

If you’ve purchased and used many tickets to Notre Dame football games, you are probably well aware of who Touchdown Jesus is. But perhaps you’re unfamiliar with this piece of Notre Dame lore. Let’s see if we can’t enlighten you Notre Dame fans a bit.

Touchdown Jesus is actually a mural created by Millard Sheets entitles “The Word of Life.”  The artwork is painted atop the Notre Dame library, the Hesburgh Library, and is one of the most recognizable landmarks on the Notre Dame campus. The thing that really makes the mural famous, though, is the fact that you can see it from inside the Notre Dame football stadium. After the stadium was expanded the last time, it became harder to see, but you can still get a good look at it. It’s called “Touchdown” Jesus because the image shows the resurrected Christ with his hands raised upwards above his head, the same signal a ref might give to signify a touchdown or made field goal in a game of football. And now you know… the rest of the story.

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Posted in General on June 19, 2009

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