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Clausen talks with one of his offensive linemen, who apparently wasn't around later that night to protect his QB; AP Photo/Darron Cummings
Even worse is the claim that Clausen was essentially sucker punched by a pissed off fan. The junior QB was apparently at CJ's with friends and family following the game, which was Senior Day for some of Clausen's teammates (and perhaps Clausen's last game in South Bend as well). The incident occurred as Clausen was leaving the bar. A source told ESPN the injury wouldn't keep Clausen out of Saturday's game at Stanford. Still, let this be a lesson to the thousands of pissed off Bears fans out there: if you see Jay Cutler out at a club, no matter how angry you are with him about all those interceptions, just leave him be.
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Although I could give a damn about college football, everytime I've seen a Notre Dame game, I've thought that this guy could use a good punch to the face.
I follow college football, and this is a sad story of a fan going too far. It's only a game.
Why someone who could not give a damn about college football is even watching a Notre Dame game does not make much sense.
But I guess the saying is true..."Notre Dame football: Loved, Hated, but Never Ignored".
Go Irish! Beat Stanford!
I don't give a damn about college football, but I watch it if I'm stuck at home and there's nothing else on. And because of the media's insane obsession (thanks to a mass of guys like that idiot fan who punched Clausen) with a team that hasn't been better than mediocre for a decade or so, if I'm watching college football there's a good chance I'm watching Notre Dame. I find it amazing the number of Saturdays this year I've turned on a television and found myself looking at Notre Dame blowing a game.
Blue...good point.
"...And because of the media's insane obsession with a team..."
Fair enough...Notre Dame is on NBC...or ABC if they play an away game.
In the same time period on Saturday afternoon's, you will find an SEC game on CBS, a Big Ten game on ABC, and games on ESPN and ESPN2. Games are also played on ESPNU and ESPN Classic. Basic cable also gives you the Big Ten Network.
You can also find Saturday afternoon games on VS., Fox Sports and sometimes TBS.
With that, why are you even watching Notre Dame when there are so many other choices for games on a Saturday afternoon?
I don't have cable, so most of those options are unavailable to me. Half the time I flip through the networks, spend a quarter each watching Notre Dame, Ohio State, and Florida (this is the distribution you almost always get), then give up on it and watch the cooking shows on WTTW.
Blue...great point. Without cable you are very limited. That line up is spot on.
By the way, in a scrimmage earlier this year:
WTTW Cooking Show Interns: 28
Notre Dame Varsity Football: 10
(This from an Irish fan). Hey! Oh!!
HA!
Stop the white cap jock douche on white cap jock douche violence y'all!
"Football" *shudders*, already pining for spring and thinking man's sports.
Yes, because we all know that no acts of senseless violence have ever happened at a baseball game. :)
I wasn't trying to tie the sport to violence* or compare it at all, just saying I find football not very interesting and we're in the midst of football fever all over tv, thus the shuddering.
*Considering the law trouble that a lot of pro football stars have gotten into though, maybe there's something to it. That's another conversation though..
Yeah, nothing says intellectual like first basemen with potbellies standing around and scratching their crotches :)
Just kidding. I'm a baseball person, too. Part of my reason is that I am just too stupid to understand all the football plays and various strategies and the football type of thinking (yes, there is thinking in football). Hell, I can't even remember all the positions.
in your defense, neither do most of the announcers calling these games.
That's my exact reason for my dislike of football. A million little plays with a million little rules, most of which are meaningless or stupid. I think if you trimmed about half the rules, you'd have a good game.
About 90% of the rules added in the NFL in the last 30 years were added in attempts to prevent catastrophic injury to the players. So, I support all those rules and would not want to see them trimmed.
Anyway, I can't convince a non-football person to like football. Personally I love both baseball and football.
I can see things like penalties for late hits and such. I am far more puzzled by things like intentional grounding, which has nothing to do with player safety, and is applied almost at random. And there are many, many other overly complicated examples just like that.
Nothings worse than a fantastic 80 yard TD that gets called back b/c of a holding penalty on the other side of the field that didn't effect the play whatsoever. Also, the NFL's OT and 2 minute warnings have to be some of the dumbest rules in all of sports.
The rules of football are a serious flaw in the sport. It doesn't flow naturally like baseball and most of the other sports.
Football without the flags and annoying delays=rugby.
True ... and I like rugby.