If you were forwarded this email and would like to sign up to receive future editions, you can do so here. ~optional musical accompaniment~ 1) If you want to seek it out, you can find a lot of doom and gloom in the current coverage of college football because the players who are at the core of a multi-billion-dollar industry are now receiving above-board compensation for their talents and sometimes making decisions based on that. Scary! It’s alluring to think you’ll be there to witness Armageddon and that might come down the road but the thing this sport will always have in its back pocket is nothing truly compares to the game itself. NHL playoff overtimes perhaps provide the highest highs and a seven-game NBA playoff series best combines thrills and justice in finding a winner but few experiences usurp an unhinged college football game where you have big plays and terrible mistakes and a crowd that’s invested. For a bowl game that supposedly didn’t matter, it certainly seemed like a lot of people were invested in its result by the time the Irish prevailed in a classic, despite an early deficit and key players missing.
Thanks for another great year of the newsletter. Always a highlight in the inbox. Happy new year and Go Irish!