Whitey Guccione's Sportsnuggets: Outrage!

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Thursday, October 28, 2010

Outrage!

Anyone who knows me knows my disdain and vitriol for the University of Notre Dame, and Notre Dame Football over the years. I've always maintained a level of contempt for that arrogant "We're Notre Dame, and we're awesome because we're Notre DAME" philosophy that exudes from nearly every alum and overall fan (see Rudy) of Notre Dame I've encountered in my lifetime, and 99 times out of 100 they always seem to justify my feelings and prove my point with their overall conceit, holier than thou attitude, and general schmuckiness even though they haven't done a damn thing since 1988.

Over the years, there have been many adjectives I've chosen to describe my personal feelings and general conflicts with Notre Dame and her defenders. "Spirited", "Contentious", "Mind-Boggling", "Angry", and "Cute", just to name a few. Overall though, it never got beyond any level of seriousness. That has now changed this week with the news of the death of 20 year old Declan Sullivan. Now my feelings of disdain and vitriol for Notre Dame have been replaced with "DISGUST"!

Let me quickly summarize for those who haven't heard what happened. Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly likes to practice outside and hates practicing indoors. The Midwest has had very strong winds lately up to 60 MPH. Declan Sullivan was a Notre Dame student who filmed the teams practices from on top of the Scissors Lift towers, as part of his job. Those scissor lifts are not to be used in winds over 25 MPH. The winds were too strong that day (53 MPH according to many readings), and obviously Declan knew it judging by picture of his Tweets featured above which were posted about an hour before the tower fell and lead to his death.

Declan is now dead, and Notre Dame and Brian Kelly, have Declan's blood on their hands because they put him in harms way. Whether they knew how dangerous it was to put Declan on the Lift during high winds is irrelevant! Ignorance is NEVER an excuse. Kelly's and Notre Dame's negligence now has a body count behind it, PERIOD. Fortunately for us, there are many courts in this country that would call this situation "Wrongful Death" and it will be only a matter of time before Notre Dame opens up their checkbook to Declan's family.

No amount of that money will ease the pain for Declan and his family however. No amount of painted gold helmets or praying to Touchdown Jesus will wash the blood stains from your hands when they hit your Play Like A Champion sign.

In short Notre Dame, you have now crossed the line from Hateful Play-Thing, to the Embodiment of Negligence and Wrecklessness.

Let that little thought keep you warm at night you hypocritical bastards...