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t has been a year and four days since USC traveled to South Bend, Ind., to play a game so memorable that the parking pass from it still warrants a thumb-tack posting on your office wall.
It was the type of mid-October surprise that graces amateur enthusiasts about twice a lifetime, a perfect pairing marriage of anticipation and outcome.
Grantland Rice, called back from the grave, may not have been able to do it justice. "Outlined against Weis' blue-gold windbreaker … ah, I can't write this. -30-".
A selective memory recalls:
• How short Notre Dame Coach Charlie Weis' hair was compared to the grass.
• ESPN's Stephen A. Smith, trailed by his entourage, calling attention to himself in the pre-game hallows outside Notre Dame Stadium.
And then, minutes later, Joe Montana, with arm draped around wife Jennifer, walking unimpeded through the same air space..............
t has been a year and four days since USC traveled to South Bend, Ind., to play a game so memorable that the parking pass from it still warrants a thumb-tack posting on your office wall.
It was the type of mid-October surprise that graces amateur enthusiasts about twice a lifetime, a perfect pairing marriage of anticipation and outcome.
Grantland Rice, called back from the grave, may not have been able to do it justice. "Outlined against Weis' blue-gold windbreaker … ah, I can't write this. -30-".
A selective memory recalls:
• How short Notre Dame Coach Charlie Weis' hair was compared to the grass.
• ESPN's Stephen A. Smith, trailed by his entourage, calling attention to himself in the pre-game hallows outside Notre Dame Stadium.
And then, minutes later, Joe Montana, with arm draped around wife Jennifer, walking unimpeded through the same air space..............
