The initial video we have to show is from my first of many truly traumatizing home game experiences as a Notre Dame student.  Going into this game, the Irish had upset Michigan and womped Washington in the Stadium, meaning that the in-state clash with number fifteen Purdue felt like a big-time game.  Kyle Orton and Taylor Stubblefield kindly disagreed, with led to this.

Of course, as you all know, retribution was only a year away.  Turning a twenty-five point loss into a twenty-one point win, Charlie Weis orchestrated a turnaround of nearly fifty points when the Irish traveled to West LaFayette in 2005.  Joe Tiller's timeout tactics led to All-World play-by-play man Ron Franklin's All-World comment to Hurricane Proof Holly Rowe, forever immortalized in this fantastic highlight video.  (WARNING: This video will make you miss MoSto.)

The last two games have been pretty entertaining contests won by the home team, but I think my favorite Purdue-related moment of the last thirteen months came in a reply to the Her Loyal Sons post that Purdue was "the most boring college football program in the nation."  This seems like a somewhat justifiable claim, as I think if you polled most college football fans across this great nation of ours on their opinion of Purdue, most might ask if that is where Drew Brees went and then shrug their shoulders.

Obviously, some Purdue fans disagreed, leading to this Hall of Fame post from Boiled Sports which contained a slew of gut-bustingly hilarious lines.  Included:

Really? In-state rivalries are that boring to you? I suppose so if you know a beatdown is coming. I hate to break this to Notre Dame, but USC doesn't really consider you guys a "rival" the way you do. They see you as a nuisance from the midwest. You don't matter to them, you're a W on their schedule and then they move on to actually challenging opponents. Your best try still wasn't good enough a couple of years ago. Long grass, home-field, hometown refereeing... and you still lost. So why not embrace an in-state rival that has actually been a good series in recent years?

I wish we didn't matter to Southern Cal, but people like Dwayne Jarrett found some way to get all hyped for it every year.  Plus, like everything else, the series is cyclical, and I don't think the most ardent Trojan supporter would predict the Irish will never defeat USC again.  The current streak of six Southern Cal victories hasn't come close to the run from 1983 to 1995, a run where the Irish went 12-0-1, or between 1940 and 1954, where Notre Dame went 10-1-1 against their West Coast foes.

I wish we had "hometown refereeing" in the 2005 game, as that might have helped, but don't you know, they were PAC-10 officials!  Also, Purdue is an in-state opponent, not an in-state rival.  I will agree that there have been good games in recent years, but rivals that does not make.

Um, oh, hey, I have something: We're 4-0, bitch. We have a top ten offense... in the nation. We're ranked. Our QB has 16 TDs and one pick. We're averaging almost 50 points a game.

I don't know what else could have followed the ellipses after "offense" except for in the nation, unless he was proudly going to boast that it was a top ten offense....in the Big Ten.  The gaudy numbers accumulated in the first four games of the 2007 season were against Toledo, Eastern Illinois, Central Michigan and Minnesota, and Sir Painter ended up throwing only 13 touchdowns and 10 interceptions the rest of the way, leading the "ranked" Boilermakers to the Motor City Bowl.

This would be a vastly more interesting week if we’d dump Purdue from the schedule and take on a team like, say, ITT Technical Institute. Do they have a football team?

I'm sure you boys would love to "dump Purdue" from the schedule -- who wants a team that can beat you and perhaps even steal some recruits? You guys only have 6 or 7 gimme wins a season on your schedule so ITT Tech would fit right in with the plan.

A) Those "6 or 7 gimme wins" included ten teams that went to bowl games, and B)  A Purdue fan making fun of another's team schedule isn't the pot calling the kettle black, it's the color black calling the kettle black.

What, hate the difficulty of playing for a team that people might actually look up in the Sunday papers?

What does this even mean? College football is on Saturdays. But these guys haven't seen something resembling college football in a while so it's easy to see how they might be confused.

HLS made reference to looking up a college football score the next day in the Sunday paper.  That statement apparently caused confusion.  I love this post so much, and hope you do, too.

Go Irish, Beat Boilermakers.