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Old 10-17-2005, 12:31 PM   #4189
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Originally posted by baltassoc
Because a considerable number of people associated with Notre Dame are actually Irish, or decendents of the Irish. Because ND goes over and plays a football game in Ireland every couple of years and sells out Croke Park (hell, they're allowed to play in Croke Park, which is otherwise allowed only to host traditional Irish sports - rugby and soccer are not permitted). Because ND has a giagantic Irish Studies program dedicated to studying both the history and culture of Irland on the one side and studying methods of resolving the continuing political strife in the country (in a serious way, not in a give the IRA arms kind of way).

I'm not seeing that connection at Florida State.

ETA: I can't believe I just defended fucking Notre Dame.
Wasn't SD's point that "Fighting Irish" stereotypes Irish as drunken brawlers, so the "fighting" part of the name is problematic, not the "Irish" part.

"Courteous Irish" doesn't have much of a ring to it though.
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