I was wearing an ND parka with a Leprechaun on the back. I even got some ugly stares in the airport on Sunday waiting to fly home.
In the game in Baton Rouge Davie's boys silenced Death Valley. ND scored on the opening kickoff using very wide splits and a effective TE drag. (wish we'd run more of that with Niklas and Koyack). ND was up 9 by the half. Some light drizzle started and a lot of LSU fans had enough. ND scored in the 3Q and it was like somebody stuck a giant pin in the side of Tiger Stadium and the LSU fans were sucked out. There were less than 5,000 ND fans in the stands but in the 3Q you could hear the ND fans outcheering the LSU fans. By the 4Q there were no LSU fans cheering. I think there band even left before the game was over. I've never seen a fan base quit like that. They were two scores and it was like they were getting beat by 50.
Their band has an interesting routine to whip the drunks into a frenzy pregame. The band marches in from one end zone playing their fight song infront of that section. Then the entire band bows to the fans in that end zone in recognition. The fans are standing and screaming.
They then turn 90 degrees to the far sideline. March over there, play, then bow. This section of the stadium erupts in noise trying to outscream the last group. They march down to the endzone where they entered and repeat and those fans go nuts. Then they march in front of the home side, play, bow in salutionation and the entire stadium erupts. It did whip the .20 BA crowd into a frenzy! THEN THE TEAM TAKES THE FIELD. Pandamonium!
ND could do this ... without the .20 BA (otherwise the IN Excise Police would ticket 80,000 people and well as anyone outside within earshot of ND Stadium). It is effective in working the sections of the stadium against one another and then rising in a cresendo. Even the gold seats would stand.
