That’ll do it for our first tournament on Fighting Irish Wire. Sometimes tournaments that are single elimination allow for some classic moments and great upsets, other times a powerhouse destroys everything in it’s path, blowing out every taker-on in it’s way.
That’s exactly what happened in our inaugural Fighting Irish Wire Tournament to decide the best Notre Dame game since Lou Holtz took over in 1986.
In the finals it was a match-up we were all expecting to see and despite even getting the publicity of Notre Dame’s Athletic Department replaying the game this weekend, it wasn’t enough for the 1993 Florida State game to even put up a fight as “Catholics vs. Convicts” won going away.
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There is talk from some writers for this very website to do our own live watch party for this game at some point in the not-so distant future so we’ll save showing a replay of it here. However, enjoy the intro from that day, complete with Jim Nantz doing studio work and Harry Caray throwing out a first pitch before Notre Dame and Miami met in baseball the night before.
Spoiler alert: the football team wasn’t the only Irish team to pull an upset that weekend!
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What is crazy to me is that as classic as this game was, one of the most famous in the history of college football, is that it wasn’t even the most-memorable thing to happen in the sports world that day, October 15, 1988.
That belongs to Kirk Gibson, whether you’re a Los Angeles Dodgers fan or not.
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Thanks for participating and playing along the last few weeks in our tournament. Hopefully it got you to think a little bit and take a trip down memory-lane.