10 things I hate about The Notre Dame Fighting Irish

Rocket Ismail . . . and Rudy was offsides.

I have a new one-word response for anyone bringing him up.

Kovacs

Harry Fucking Oliver and Reggie Effin Ho

Their fan base's sense of entitlement to the best of everything, including football.

Insecure much?

I agree with you on #7 and #1 but none of the others bother me. The thing is that I don't really think too much about them other than this week.

How does the debacle that is 'We are ND' NOT make this list?!?!

I hate their tv contract which makes all of this possible... without it, they would slump back to their rightful place in the modern football landscape.  Damn you, NBC!  At least they have started moving some of their weaker games to the NBC sports channel and off the main network.  I really hope they don't renew.

and his twinkling fingers to the side before he'd kick the ball through the uprights.

Watching him just come unglued is almost too much to take. I want that player to just curl up his irish fist and drop that screaming lunatic.

I do hate ND, but I have to disagree with many of your items (notably except for #3).

First off, that girl in #10 is totally hot. The fact that she even made your top ten after being briefly shown on a televised game three years ago make me think thou protest too much, Shredder.

How about hating ND for the simple fact that their fans are so entitled?

I went to see us lose to them about 7 years ago. South Bend itself is a hole, but the campus is immaculate. I actually like their stadium... it was like a smaller (but CLEANER) version of our own stadium pre-renovation.

The thing that annoyed me was when my friend and I were getting ready to go into the stadium before the game, the chant from a group of students was: "S.A.T.s! S.A.T.s!...." I mean, who do you guys think you're playing? Save that crap for Sparty.

That drawing of the foot stepping on the sideline is hilarious for some reason.  I loved when Joe Montana debunked the whole Rudy thing.  

ND is perhaps the only school that has a fanbase that can out arrogant Michigan fans in matters of adherence to tradition and academic prowess. 

Notre Dame is French for Our Lady which is a reference to the Virgin Mary.  While I have no qualms with the name itself, it is French and NOT Irish.  It is not an Irish Catholic school.  The only Irish reference is the nickname whose origins are unclear.  Too much Irish embrace.

ND can get away with being independent.  I wish Michigan could.  

Montana didn't really debunk it, it was a well known fact.  Atleast to anyone that cared, which is no one.

I can't really argue a lot of those points.  I can tell you that the turf is being turf'd for fake turf sometime in the next 12 months.

I hate that mascot as well.

As far as the Allen thing goes, I never refuted the fact he was out once you saw the close up.  At the time it was fireworks and fire and brimstone.  Just can't refute actual facts in the end.  I recently had to post the picture on another forum when a guy said the BIG refs screwed because Allen was clearly in.  Pic showed, caption "Clearly".

Green.

Look, your school can choose any colors it likes for its school colors. You want to be hunter orange and mauve? Knock yourself out. But once you choose your colors, THOSE ARE YOUR COLORS. You can't be all "we're blue and gold so OH MY GOD EVERYONE WEAR GREEN."

AJ Hawk is dating Brady Quinn's sister.

Tom Zibikowski is a boxer.

Jeff Samardzija plays baseball.

The worst thing about the Armando Allen call is that the arguements went like this:
 

ND Fans: "HE DIDN'T STEP OUT OF BOUNDS WAAAAAAAAH REFS GOT THE CALL WROOOOONG"

Sane Fans: "Look, here's a screencap from the high def broadcast.  You can clearly see he stepped out of bounds."

ND FANS: "OKAY BUT THE REFS DON'T HAVE HIGH DEF TVS IN THE REPLAY BOOTH SO TECHNICALLY THEY GOT IT RIGHT BUT THEY SHOULD HAVE GOTTEN IT WROOOOOOOOONG"

but I hate how Musburger pronounces Irish.  It's like "eye-rrrsh".

Random choice of fan-photos.  The guy in the green sweatshirt (in front of the USC TE flipping off the camera) is one of my best friends from college.  And, ironically, he went to high school with the zit-picking girl.

Cool Story, bro.

now, i know your first impulse is to say "wait, you hate these guys? i kind of like them. they have cool uniforms and this tough look on their face and do the same thing as each other in unison. what do you hate them?"

well, here is why. their function is to act as body guards for the marching band on road trips. THEY ARE THE BAND'S BODY GUARDS! way to make a big deal out of nothing. at any other school this position is filled by somebody's dad wearing a yellow windbreaker that probably is not even ND licensed gear. is a 24" tall fur hat really necessary to discourage someone from calling the saxophone player a fatty? also, their uniforms are Scottish, not Irish, so, there is that.

The ND mascot is hands-down the most annoying thing about that team, and possibly the most annoying mascot/side-show in all of sports.  That little f-er is always on TV, always running around like an idiot.  I always tell whomever I am watching an ND game with at the time that I'd like to punch that guy in the throat.  I wonder if ND fans like him . . .

I can't believe you left off Rudy's indictment for defrauding investors in a pump and dump stock scheme. In Jon Chait's words, "If you never give up, you too can grow up to be a self-promoting swindler." The below article also contains helpful reminders that George Gipp didn't attend Notre Dame for two years while he played there and that Knute Rockne bet on games that he coached.

On further examination, perhaps Rudy should just be part of a broader catch all category: "All your legends are frauds."

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/12/rudy-indicted-for-stock-fraud.html