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Notre Dame football on NBC has become an American hallmark really, and this vignette is a special 'dialogic' toast to that distinctive American phenomenon. Stay safe all during this Coronavirus darkness,
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Companies and brands and logos from the green nation of Ireland were abound in modern capitalism. These included Lucky the Leprechaun avatar from the popular American breakfast cereal company and the successful Aer Lingus airline company from Ireland. Despite the troubling fact that Irish politics had been a sore in the UK for ages, commerce had given Irish companies and logos a fresh new face for modernism.
In America, nowhere was this better seen than in the lucrative and iconic national TV contract/association between NBC (National Broadcasting Company) and the Notre Dame Fightin' Irish college-football team. The Fightin' Irish were a proud Irish Catholic presented NCAAF team for decades and epochs, boasting luminous teams and legendary games featuring great players and coaches such as Joe Montana and Lou Holtz. NBC had made a ton of money carrying a proud weekly banner-flag for Notre Dame's Fightin' Irish college-football team, with games regularly broadcast every Saturday.
Isaac, a proud Algerian-American US citizen and Notre Dame Fightin' Irish fan had enjoyed NBC games featuring Notre Dame tackling its various rivals in NCAAF every Saturday. He watched the Fightin' Irish even while attending Dartmouth College, the prestigious Ivy League school in New England. Notre Dame was a symbol of collegiate athletics excellence, and Isaac was a longtime Fightin' Irish fan, cheering on the great players and iconic teams Lou Holtz coached in the late 1980s while playing those legendary series of Bowl games with the Colorado Buffaloes. Isaac had become a true Fightin' Irish fan-member.
NOTRE DAME: "We're really happy with our association with the National Broadcasting Company."
Isaac's wife Jessica, an Asian-American, also enjoyed watching Notre Dame games on NBC with Isaac. After all, Fightin' Irish football had become synonymous with American excellence and collegiate capital. She wasn't as big a fan of college sports but appreciate the way NBC had managed to lift the Fightin' Irish to the level of cultural platforms, arguably relevant to issues such as pluralism, religious tolerance, democracy itself, and social fanfare and advocacy for college athletics. She watched NBC Notre Dames with Isaac every Saturday. This was America.
Notre Dame games could be streamed on NBC website and enjoyed by fans around the world. Fans in Ireland who enjoyed America's special and peculiar trumpeting of Irish logos and designs appreciated the widespread media access NBC offered to fans seeking windows into Fightin' Irish football every Saturday.
The Fightin' Irish enjoyed great successes in the classic black-and-white TV era, followed by the Joe Montana years in the late 1970s, featuring an iconic green-jersey game against USC in 1977, and then followed both by legendary coach Lou Holtz' late 1980s teams featuring the hot Bowl rivalries with the Colorado Buffaloes and Charlie Weiss' teams aspiring to reach national prestige in the new millennium with hot QB Brady Quinn and talented receivers and backs and an ambitious defense, and finally by the new decade Fightin' Irish seeking a national title after taking down the mighty Clemson Tigers, winners of multiple titles in the new era.
LOU HOLTZ: "Many fans think our rivalry is with Penn State, but I think it was with the Colorado Buffaloes!"
Irish-American Catholics living in the USA appreciated the media access to Notre Dame football NBC had offered them for years and even during the Coronavirus time in 2020. In the 2020 season, the Fightin' Irish were seriously seeking a national title, once more.
Why did so many celebrities cheer on the Fightin' Irish? Perhaps it's because Notre Dame had become a college athletics symbol of timely fanfare in times of great sociocultural intrigue such as Coronavirus tribulation and capitalism-consciousness shifts in the late 1980s!
There were even books written about the 'spiritual spirit' of the Fightin' Irish. This was a phenomenon.
You might find the wife of super-celebrity Tom Cruise (American Made) at a Fightin' Irish game broadcast on NBC!
P-IRA (PROVISIONAL IRISH REPUBLICAN ARMY): "We're impressed by American trumpets for the Fightin' Irish but worry about troubles at home in Belfast between Catholics and Protestants."
Algerian-American Isaac and his wife Asian-American Jessica simply appreciated watching American college sports on NBC every Saturday with their daughter Elyssa who played on her electric keyboard while cheering on the Fightin' Irish with her parents. America was the home of peace and commercial sanity, and NBC reflected this community standard. This was America.
ISAAC: "I just want the Fightin' Irish to carry a national title in this first-year of college sports during the Coronavirus trials."
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"Money is everything" (Ecclesiastes)
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Companies and brands and logos from the green nation of Ireland were abound in modern capitalism. These included Lucky the Leprechaun avatar from the popular American breakfast cereal company and the successful Aer Lingus airline company from Ireland. Despite the troubling fact that Irish politics had been a sore in the UK for ages, commerce had given Irish companies and logos a fresh new face for modernism.
In America, nowhere was this better seen than in the lucrative and iconic national TV contract/association between NBC (National Broadcasting Company) and the Notre Dame Fightin' Irish college-football team. The Fightin' Irish were a proud Irish Catholic presented NCAAF team for decades and epochs, boasting luminous teams and legendary games featuring great players and coaches such as Joe Montana and Lou Holtz. NBC had made a ton of money carrying a proud weekly banner-flag for Notre Dame's Fightin' Irish college-football team, with games regularly broadcast every Saturday.
Isaac, a proud Algerian-American US citizen and Notre Dame Fightin' Irish fan had enjoyed NBC games featuring Notre Dame tackling its various rivals in NCAAF every Saturday. He watched the Fightin' Irish even while attending Dartmouth College, the prestigious Ivy League school in New England. Notre Dame was a symbol of collegiate athletics excellence, and Isaac was a longtime Fightin' Irish fan, cheering on the great players and iconic teams Lou Holtz coached in the late 1980s while playing those legendary series of Bowl games with the Colorado Buffaloes. Isaac had become a true Fightin' Irish fan-member.
NOTRE DAME: "We're really happy with our association with the National Broadcasting Company."
Isaac's wife Jessica, an Asian-American, also enjoyed watching Notre Dame games on NBC with Isaac. After all, Fightin' Irish football had become synonymous with American excellence and collegiate capital. She wasn't as big a fan of college sports but appreciate the way NBC had managed to lift the Fightin' Irish to the level of cultural platforms, arguably relevant to issues such as pluralism, religious tolerance, democracy itself, and social fanfare and advocacy for college athletics. She watched NBC Notre Dames with Isaac every Saturday. This was America.
Notre Dame games could be streamed on NBC website and enjoyed by fans around the world. Fans in Ireland who enjoyed America's special and peculiar trumpeting of Irish logos and designs appreciated the widespread media access NBC offered to fans seeking windows into Fightin' Irish football every Saturday.
The Fightin' Irish enjoyed great successes in the classic black-and-white TV era, followed by the Joe Montana years in the late 1970s, featuring an iconic green-jersey game against USC in 1977, and then followed both by legendary coach Lou Holtz' late 1980s teams featuring the hot Bowl rivalries with the Colorado Buffaloes and Charlie Weiss' teams aspiring to reach national prestige in the new millennium with hot QB Brady Quinn and talented receivers and backs and an ambitious defense, and finally by the new decade Fightin' Irish seeking a national title after taking down the mighty Clemson Tigers, winners of multiple titles in the new era.
LOU HOLTZ: "Many fans think our rivalry is with Penn State, but I think it was with the Colorado Buffaloes!"
Irish-American Catholics living in the USA appreciated the media access to Notre Dame football NBC had offered them for years and even during the Coronavirus time in 2020. In the 2020 season, the Fightin' Irish were seriously seeking a national title, once more.
Why did so many celebrities cheer on the Fightin' Irish? Perhaps it's because Notre Dame had become a college athletics symbol of timely fanfare in times of great sociocultural intrigue such as Coronavirus tribulation and capitalism-consciousness shifts in the late 1980s!
There were even books written about the 'spiritual spirit' of the Fightin' Irish. This was a phenomenon.
You might find the wife of super-celebrity Tom Cruise (American Made) at a Fightin' Irish game broadcast on NBC!
P-IRA (PROVISIONAL IRISH REPUBLICAN ARMY): "We're impressed by American trumpets for the Fightin' Irish but worry about troubles at home in Belfast between Catholics and Protestants."
Algerian-American Isaac and his wife Asian-American Jessica simply appreciated watching American college sports on NBC every Saturday with their daughter Elyssa who played on her electric keyboard while cheering on the Fightin' Irish with her parents. America was the home of peace and commercial sanity, and NBC reflected this community standard. This was America.
ISAAC: "I just want the Fightin' Irish to carry a national title in this first-year of college sports during the Coronavirus trials."
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"Money is everything" (Ecclesiastes)
