In either 1990 or ’91 I remember starting to watch Notre Dame football and liking them. If I didn’t catch all the game I remember the old SportsChannel in Chicago replaying the condensed versions the following Sunday. It was then I probably knew I would always be a bigger college football fan than professional football fan.
By the time 1992 came around my fandom grew to the point my grandpa who lived in Northwest Indiana would mail me the local newspapers of the Notre Dame and college football preview sections.
And then 1993 happened and it took me from liking Notre Dame and the first teams I watched with Rick Mirer and Jerome Bettis to a whole next level. It also went hand in hand with the local high school team that would eventually go unbeaten and win the state championship.
It didn’t get much better than watching the Coal City Coalers dominate on Friday night and then watching Notre Dame do the same on Saturday.
Now Notre Dame has made the home part of that season available on YouTube, posting every home game from the year online.
Every home game from that season is now available and maybe, just maybe, we’ll have some fun with that in the weeks to come at Fighting Irish Wire in our own unique way. In the meantime here are the links to the 1993 home games:
Sept. 4 – No. 7 Notre Dame vs. Northwestern
Sept. 18 – No. 4 Notre Dame vs. Michigan State
Oct. 9 – No. 4 Notre Dame vs. Pitt
Oct. 23 – No. 2 Notre Dame vs. USC
Nov. 13 – No. 2 Notre Dame vs. No. 1 Florida State (we’ve been told this day was fun)
Nov. 20 – No. 1 Notre Dame vs. No. 17 Boston College (this one comes with a warning for all Notre Dame fans – seriously, props to them for having the guts to post it as well. Had I been in charge I would have “mistakenly” forgotten the link)
So if you’re looking for something to watch all of the 1993 season is now available, at least in terms of home games. It’d be nice to see them somehow get rights to add the Michigan game and Cotton Bowl win over Texas A&M as well.