GOOD QUESTION
Marc, a reader with a keen memory, asks the following question regarding a blog that appeared last week:
John- I'm dying to know...did those "fans" who wrote to the Observer (Tom Bradley, Ricky Moreno, Tom Dobleman, Rick King, and Kenny Cushing) saying how they make a statement by walking out on struggling Irish teams miss the MSU comeback? We're they at the game?
I don't know, Marc. Maybe they'll write another whiny letter this week and we will all find out.
Meanwhile, this week's clear favorite for "I Don't Know This Person" letter to The Observer comes from alumna Sue Grant ('77). She writes that she was saddened during the Penn State game because she was unable to get tix through the lottery (a fellow alum gave her some) and had to walk a mile and a half to get to the stadium (she didn't know about the free shuttle). Then she writes, "I didn't know by choosing to be an inner-city elementary teacher that I would be forfeiting my Notre Dame football "privileges".
"Ohhhhhhh, Mr. Gra-a-ant!"
(I know; it's a woman).
Sue, it's people such as yourself who give self-righteous do-gooders a bad name. There are a finite number of available spaces (as there were for positions in your freshman class; maybe it would have been fair if ND had not discriminated on the basis of academic aptitude). How would you have the school decide who gets the choice parking? On a sliding scale of sanctimony?
You said it yourself, Sue. "Privileges". Not rights, privileges.
Zibby and Brady
On Wednesdays Tom Zbikowski and Brady Quinn separately do 20-minute teleconferences with the media. My favorite moment of today's was when one scribe was trying to get some color from Zibby for a story on defensive tackle Trevor Laws. "A few guys described Trevor's off-field persona as being a 'hippie', the writer said. "Can you talk about that?"
Zbikowksi just lowered his head, shook it slightly, and smiled. Then he looked up with an expression that asked, "What do you want me to say?"
Gas Pumpers
So last week on the Today show Matt Lauer spoke with three VH-1 pop culture junkies about Oprah Winfrey's inability to "pump her own gas". If you missed it, Oprah and her BFF, Gayle King, pulled a Thelma & Louise for the season premier of "Oprah", driving cross-country. The highlight was when Oprah stops at a gas station and realizes that "I haven't pumped my own gas since 1983".
If you haven't seen the clip, here it is:
http://www.yikers.com/video_oprah_doesnt_know_how_to_pump_her_own_gas.html
You have to love how shocked Oprah, the world's richest self-made woman, becomes when she discovers that the total sale is $129.
The VH-1 gang opined that "pumps her own gas" is a euphemism for, well, I cannot say. But I like it. "See that guy? He's pumping his own gas."
Yeah, it could catch on.
They're No. 1
My always cheerful producer, Mike Cloonan, and I paid a visit to ND women's soccer practice this afternoon. The women are undefeated and ranked No. 1 and also have the nation's leading scorer in freshman Michele Weissenhofer (the Irish freshman class also has Rachel VanderGenugten; Weissenhofer and VanderGenugten; it's only a matter of time before "Irish Uber Alles!" bumper stickers pop up on campus).
Anyway, Weissenhofer excels at a difficult and rare soccer skill: the flip-throw. A former gymnast, she does a front somersault that during a throw-in that allows her to catapult the ball three times as far as an ordinary throw.
"She's already had two game-winning assists for us with the flip throw," Irish coach Randy Landrum claims.
The No. 1 Irish face No. 6 West Virginia on Friday night on campus.
And if Weissenhofer's name sounds familiar, her uncle Ron was a linebacker for Notre Dame in the mid-80s.
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Weissenhofer, of the Vanderbilt Weissenhofers?
Hey, it would have been so easy to drop in a 227 reference the other day and get another $10. And how can you not get "Medium" in for a cheap buck? Or some subtle synergy, like "By the fourth quarter, the Spartan secondary was really Sorkin" ... Is it too late to throw in a plug for GE, Letterman-style?