As Rob mentioned below, Bob Davie calling a Notre Dame game is fun enough in itself, but when that game is against Ty Willingham?  A perfect storm of catharsis, or the potential for the drunkest night any Irish fan has ever been involved with.  If Notre Dame doesn't drive the final nail into Willingam's coffin in over-the-top gory, Halloween-like fashion, I'll be disappointed.  This is like the end of a slasher film and Jimmy Clausen has been given a multitude weapons (Tate, Floyd, Rudolph, Allen) to lop off the head of Notre Dame's haunting past, but he has to make sure the job is done instead of delivering a whack or two and leaving the beast to rise again.

I think Coach Weis realizes this, but just in case he doesn't: YOU CANNOT LOSE THIS GAME.  That's clear?  Fantastic.  Let this weekend be the last loss in Ty's Washington career before the racist university fires him because he's black, just like Notre Dame did.

A Vision In Purple

Really random, exciting rumor that should break the heart of every Vikings and Browns fan:

Word is the Vikings offered the Browns their 2009 and 2010 first-round draft picks for quarterback Brady Quinn, but Cleveland, after consideration, said no thanks.

Economically, the deal makes sense for the Vikings in that Quinn, who is under contract for three more years after this season, already has been paid his signing bonus. And the Vikings wouldn't have to spend on the draft picks. With the trading deadline recently passed, the deal could be resurrected after the season. If the Browns won't relent on Quinn, they might deal QB Derek Anderson to Minnesota.

Can you imagine a backfield of Brady Quinn and Adrian Peterson for the next decade?  And as far as the Browns go, they don't have enough guts to make this trade, but they also don't have enough cajones to pull Derek Anderson when he's 14-for-37 for 136 yards.  I mean, how do you bench a guy playing like that?  Here's a short list of things Anderson would have to do for Romeo Crennel to put Brady in:

1) Suffer some injury where he simply could not throw the ball, at which point Crennel would still keep him in for at least two or three more series just to make sure.

2) Instead of just figuratively crapping the bed every time he played, he could literally crap it while Romeo was lying with him.

3) Endorse John McCain.

Rob Kurz, Shooting At The Walls of Heartache?

Final cuts for NBA rosters are due before the season starts at the end of the month, and Rob Kurz has gotten into an exciting situation where he might defy the expectations of everyone and make a NBA team.  The Golden State Warriors need to make one final cut, and it appears to be down to Kurz and Georgia Tech product Anthony Morrow.  Morrow seems like a pretty thin guy and the Dubs love their skeletons,  but Kurz exploded in the Warriors' last preseason game, knocking down a trio of treys (including a buzzer beater) to give them the win against the Bucks.

In something I never thought I would see anywhere, let alone from a professional team's fan base, is a "Keep Kurz Movement."  Even if he makes the team it's unlikely he'd play that much - or start, like Chris Quinn - but still: Rob Kurz on the freaking Golden State Warriors, shooting at the walls of heart ache.

Mini Irish in the NFL, Week Seven

Chinedum Ndukwe, who already has 38 tackles, a pick and a fumble return for a touchdown for the Bengals this year, took offense with Hines Ward's jaw-shattering block on Southern Cal product Keith Rivers:

"That's what he's known for," Bengals safety Chinedum Ndukwe said. "You expect that coming in. People are going to take their shots when they can. Too bad he can't hit someone face up. It's too bad he has to wait until he's not looking to get him. It's unfortunate. It's the type of guy he is. That's all right. We play them again. He's a blind-side guy."

Sadly, I'm a Blind Side guy, too, since Michael Lewis is a fantastic writer and the Michael Oher story is great, so I hope Nedu doesn't hold that against me.  I was also directed to this comment in Peter King's MMQB:

e. Justin Tuck, 49ers. Man, boys.

I usually don't link to Peter King because he is horrendously awful at writing (here and here), so to counter his observation of Tuck's greatness, here's maybe the worst thing ever written by anyone:

g. Family Guy continues to amaze. It's better than The Office, which I couldn't have said two months ago.

Comparing those two shows - one of which has never been funny, the other that has been tremendously overrated and not funny since "Casino Night" - is like picking the most able side in a Cripple Fight.  Thank you, Peter King, for just confirming no one should ever read anything you write.

Etc., Etc., Etc.

The Lou Holtz-Hitler/RichRod thing is totally overblown . . .it probably is a good thing everyone is both bummed out and furious about the loss to North Carolina (who got knocked off by UVA in OT this weekend). . .this is the greatest fantasy league of all-time. . .