How Twitter reacted to Notre Dame-Marshall: Thundering Herd side

Be happy for these people at least.

Take away the plane crash and Randy Moss, and you’ll find that Marshall actually has a pretty nice history of team success. It’s won 13 conference championships and a couple of national titles at the Football Championship Subdivision level. Now, you can add an upset win over Notre Dame in South Bend to that history. The folks in Huntington will be celebrating this until the wee hours of the morning.

Go to Twitter, and you’ll find more than a few tweets ripping on the Irish, talking about how overrated they are and wishing they would just go away altogether for the common good. If you sift through all of those though, you’ll find people who care about the Herd all the time and not only when they have a win of this magnitude. Those are the people you should be happy for, not those who would wish the Irish out of existence if they could.

Here are a few of them on Twitter:

Some of my favorite moments from ‘We Are Marshall’

Some clips from an inspiring movie

Notre Dame has “Knute Rockne, All American” and “Rudy” to be associated with. The Irish’s upcoming opponent, Marshall, has “We Are Marshall”, which was born out of circumstances far more tragic than those of a legendary coach or an inspiring walk-on. This movie deals with the aftermath of the plane crash that killed nearly every player and coach for the 1970 Herd. The effort to rebuild the program makes you get behind it.

I’d be lying if I said this wasn’t one of my favorite football movies. I guess I’m just a sucker for these feel-good movies, even if this one doesn’t happen against the best backdrop. After all, this isn’t something anyone in their right mind would wish on any community.

With the Irish and Herd about to have their first meeting, I thought this would be a good time to look at a few memorable moments from the flick: