Twitter Criticizes Notre Dame Students for Storming Field After Upset

As soon as Notre Dame completed it historic upset of top-ranked Clemson, the celebration was on at Notre Dame Stadium.

As soon as Notre Dame completed it historic upset of top-ranked Clemson, the celebration was on at Notre Dame Stadium. The students in attendance simply had to storm the field, as is typical for home fans whose team has just won a game like this. However, this usually doesn’t happen during a pandemic, and this game did. With the number of COVID-19 cases reaching record highs, people took to Twitter to criticize the apparent lapses in judgment and responsibility:

Stewart Mandel of The Athletic went so far as to wonder what this might mean for the Irish’s next game against Boston College:

I’m not going to say whether or not the students were right to do this or the university should have allowed it, and it’s unfortunate that it had somewhat overshadowed the outcome of this game. I’ll only ask that if you were a college student and your football team just had its biggest win in years, what would you do regardless of the current situation? Hopefully, there will be few or no COVID-19 cases to come of this. That’s all that can be said.