Come on Irish fans…what’s not to love? Or is it, what is to love? It is time to sound off on the Jumbotron
Hell-Yeah Leprechaun says:
Many of you were at the game at Yankee Stadium. That screen was smokin’ hot, awesome. And can you truthfully tell me that you haven’t sat in the endzone and wanted one after not being able to see crap at the other end of the field? You absolutely have.
And you take your son or daughter to the game don’t you? Well, what better way to can you educate them on the tradition of Notre Dame than to have a pre-game video rolling educating them about Rockne, Leahy and Parseghian? They can see those legends come to life 20 flippin’ feet tall!! But I suppose you would rather sit in your seats trying to force your kids to read the program all the while they are listening to Ja-Rule blaring over the loud speakers during the pregame.
JUMBOTRON !!!!!!!!
Proud Leprechaun says:
Are you friggin’ kidding me? No way. Not in my lifetime, not in my son’s lifetime and not if they want me to give a dime to this University. You know why non-Notre Dame fans drive thousands of miles to watch Notre Dame play? It is exactly because we don’t have a jumbotron – tradition. Notre Dame football is about college football in its purest sense. It isn’t about commercials and it isn’t about replays. Watching a game in the stadium is the same now as it was when Rockne was here and that shouldn’t and isn’t going to change. Notre Dame is about tradition and pageantry, not MTV.
NO JUMBOTRON!!!
Tiny 1980s Leprechaun says:
I can’t see crap either way. GO IRISH!!!!
Now it is your turn. Sound off in the comments section below.
Go for the jumbotron. Tradition is about more than simply not changing. Has ND stubbornly held to tradition and eschewed advances in science since 1842? Should we have held to tradition and not accepted female students? Should we have maintained our self-imposed bowl ban? I’d like to think every Irish fan would answer “no” to all the above questions; so, let’s throw the tradition argument out as it is a weak advocate for the no jumbotron party.
So why then shouldn’t we have a jumbotron? I guess the above picture could be a good reason why not. We absolutely do not want to block Touchdown Jesus. We also don’t want to clutter the stadium with ads. But are those mutually exclusive? No.
Why can’t we have two corner jumbotrons? Put them at the northeast and southwest corners of the stadium. Don’t litter them with ads. Do we REALLY need that extra bit of money from the ad revenue on those things? They can be tasteful yet modern for a stadium that is pretty light on the creature comforts.
Finally, the biggest argument for the jumbotron(s) might just be the game itself. Just like 14 year old girls, refs are affected by peer pressure. What better way to tell the ref to “get off your knees…” than by showing him his terrible mistake on a 20 foot screen with the raining boos from some 80,000 fans. Who knows, it could be the difference between Floyd’s toes being inbounds or out of bounds, and that might be the difference between a National Championship or not.
Our rivals already have the advantages of middle school academics, loose women, and non-existent standards of decorum. I don’t think Jesus would mind a jumbotron…as long as He is still front and center in the north endzone.
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