Closer than the experts thought
The Shamrock: A show about the Notre Dame Fighting Irish
The Athletic
4.8 • 524 Ratings
🗓️ 22 September 2019
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
The atmosphere in Sanford Stadium was incredible and the game rose to the level of the environment. Notre Dame proved that it could hang with one of the best teams in the country, proving a lot of people wrong. The Irish committed 12 penalties, the most of the Brian Kelly era. Is Notre Dame closer to Georgia than Georgia is to Alabama? Are Notre Dame's playoff hopes alive?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the latest edition of the Shamrock. I'm Pete Sampson coming to you from the Fairfield Inn on the north side of Atlanta and Matt from Chicago, |
| 0:26.1 | recapping Notre Dame's 2317 loss at Georgia last night. |
| 0:30.4 | Matt, before we hit record, it sounded like the atmosphere of the game came through on TV. |
| 0:35.9 | I can tell you being here in an open-air press box on that night, it was incredible. |
| 0:42.8 | You felt like you were watching an NFL playoff game, not just a regular season college football game. |
| 0:49.0 | It looked awesome. |
| 0:50.9 | You never know how that's going to translate both in person to on TV. |
| 0:55.6 | But, you know, I've said this before. |
| 0:57.3 | I love the show. |
| 0:59.4 | I love all the pyrotechnics. |
| 1:00.7 | I think there's a line sometimes that too many, especially pro stadiums, tend to cross |
| 1:06.4 | in terms of trying to turn their atmosphere into much more of like a rock concert |
| 1:10.2 | than this organic |
| 1:11.3 | great gathering of 90,000 people. But that just looked freaking awesome last night, at least on TV. |
| 1:17.7 | Yeah, I mean, the environment, the game rose to the level of the environment and exceeded it, |
| 1:22.0 | frankly. You know, the LED lights that they put on, you know, some of the more traditional stuff with the cell phones and the flashlights. |
| 1:31.4 | I mean, the tailgating scene was great. |
| 1:33.4 | I could say like the people that I interacted with from Georgia from a fan perspective, you know, if they took sort of the hospitality of Notre Dame seriously from two years ago, they really showed it, at least in my interactions with them around campus and in the stadium. It was just, it was an awesome game. I mean, it felt, and this was like sort of the crux of what I wrote last night. It was a heavyweight fight, but you have to have two heavyweights to have a heavyweight fight. And I think Notre Dame showed that they were one and i'm i'm you know look i picked them to lose by 20 points i was wrong um i think |
| 2:05.3 | Notre Dame showed me a ton and i think as much as people can sit there and say well they didn't |
| 2:11.5 | need to prove anything because they proved it at florida state and 14 they proved it against |
| 2:15.6 | clemson and 15 they proved it against gemson and 15. They proved it against Georgia |
| 2:17.7 | two years ago. Notre Dame has to prove it every damn year. This is not the Notre Dame team of |
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