It was a few days ago before I left on the trip where I was listening to the warm-up show

and Al brought up that he thought at some point somebody might have been offended by the

fighting Irish.

How we've seen so many of these different team names go away, you know, obviously with the

Native Americans or the indigenous peoples, a lot of that

has gone away in sports. You know, they, the flying Dutchman went away for Hofstra because of all

the Dutch pilots out there that felt like they were being marginalized. And Al thinks that

that the fighting Irish, because that stereotype of maybe an Irishman who drinks too much and fights could be offensive and they, that Notre Dame should, you know, may at some point be forced to change.

They're not going to change.

No way.

No way.

I'm not being serious.

I know you're not. But I'm just, I'm telling you. When you think about the history of that school? Oh, yeah. And what that mascot means? Oh, of course. It's a little leprechaun. Pissed off about something. You know? You'd be pissed off too if you were that little. I don't know if I was a lepre. If I was a leprechaun though, I'd have some sort of magic powers, yes? So I don't know how pissed off I'd be. I'd be like, listen, it sucks. I'm tiny. But I could do this. I could, there's a pot of gold over here. I got it. You know? Yeah.

How did the lepricon myth become a thing?

How did that?

I got to look that up today.

I'll do some reading.

Some research.

Some research on how the, like, were there little people many years ago in Ireland that were known to be lucky?

Like if you were a dwarf, you were, there was a sign of luck.

I mean, maybe that's what it was, Eddie.

Well, there's a lot of folk legends in England, UK, British Isles, Scandinavia.

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