I can’t be the only guy that grew up debating with friends which of our dad’s would win in a fight.
With recent additions to Notre Dame’s roster, I can’t help but wonder if that discussion is going to come up in the Fighting Irish locker room a year from now.
Except it won’t be so much a fight being discussed, but instead a time when one daddy bus made another’s dad essentially road kill.
Kennedy Urlacher joined Notre Dame as a member of the 2024 recruiting class and is participating in spring practice this year as he enrolled early. He’s of course the son of legendary Chicago Bears running back Brian Urlacher.
A short time ago Jerome Bettis, Jr. announced his commitment to Notre Dame as the wide receiver is now a part of the outstanding 2025 recruiting class for the Irish.
That simply got me thinking: How long until the elder Bettis’ run over the Hall of Fame linebacker gets brought up?
On this day 14 years ago, Jerome Bettis did this to Brian Urlacher! đź‘€ #Steelers pic.twitter.com/FG8kUr3Vxi
— Blitzburgh (@Blitz_Burgh) December 11, 2019
It was the winter of 2005 in what wound up being the start of a streak that saw the Steelers win out, something they had to do just to make the playoffs.
They’d then go onto a Super Bowl, their fifth in franchise history, when they beat the Seahawks in Super Bowl XL. Urlacher and the Bears would make it to the big game but fall to the Colts the following season.
Just some fun to help get us a day closer to kickoff…