Is anyone making the trip out to South Bend to se the game? If you are and have any questions I'll be happy to help with game day stuff. I'm a fan of both ND and UNLV.
Notre Dame
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I'll be there..
Any bars or local restaurants to check out?
Going to tour the campus.
Any must see spots?
For bars near campus, the main bars which might be worth going to Friday/Saturday are the Linebacker, O'Rourkes, Brothers, which are walkable from campus. There is also Legends bar/restaurant which is on campus by the stadium.
Campus activities if possible check the campus out on friday, they have a drummers circle outside of the Golden Dome at 4pm and then the trumpets inside the Dome at 4:10p which are amazing to see. Make sure to check out the Basilica to the left of the Dome even if you aren't religious it is beautiful inside. The Grotto is a must see when it is closer to sunset.
Saturday get to campus early they have two lakes on campus and it is an amazing walk around them early morning or after the game with the sun going down. The ND bagpipe band performs at 1130a in front of the Dome which is real fun. The ND band will give a full concert at 1pm which you can afford to miss because you will hear them many times during the day. All over campus on saturday each ND dorm/house will be selling food that will go towards their dorm or a charity the most popular is the steak sandwich.
You also have the chance to see a legit tailgate I would walk up and town the parking lot and you will most likely get invited into someone's tailgate.
Here is the link for friday and sat activites
https://und.com/fbgameday-traditionsandevents/
Campus activities if possible check the campus out on friday, they have a drummers circle outside of the Golden Dome at 4pm and then the trumpets inside the Dome at 4:10p which are amazing to see. Make sure to check out the Basilica to the left of the Dome even if you aren't religious it is beautiful inside. The Grotto is a must see when it is closer to sunset.
Saturday get to campus early they have two lakes on campus and it is an amazing walk around them early morning or after the game with the sun going down. The ND bagpipe band performs at 1130a in front of the Dome which is real fun. The ND band will give a full concert at 1pm which you can afford to miss because you will hear them many times during the day. All over campus on saturday each ND dorm/house will be selling food that will go towards their dorm or a charity the most popular is the steak sandwich.
You also have the chance to see a legit tailgate I would walk up and town the parking lot and you will most likely get invited into someone's tailgate.
Here is the link for friday and sat activites
https://und.com/fbgameday-traditionsandevents/
I’ll be there +6. Should be a fun day. I can’t wait got the trip.
Thank you, I will be there would like to check out the bagpipe band. We are staying in Chicago so taking the bus in the am but will have 3 hours before game time to check out the campus.
Bus huh? I was going to take the train, but it wouldn’t leave us a lot of time before the game. Maybe I should look into that.
I'll be there. I was going to try to make the drum performance at midnight on Friday night (midnight signifies the fact that it is then "game day"). Is it worth it to go to that?
Yeah they have a Notre Dame bus from Chicago leave 8am arrives 9:30. $100 round trip. More if you want alcohol included.
Here is what I wrote about the Linebacker in a thread on this forum a few weeks ago:
Notre Dame is probably the most disappointing place I’ve seen a game. It was vs Texas too so a big name opponent. It wasn’t bad but I had much higher expectations, which is why I use the word disappointing. The best part of the weekend in South Bend which is a rundown rust belt town was Friday night at the Linebacker Bar. I’ve been to games in college towns all over the county and always arrive to spend Friday night in a college bar. If the Linebacker isnt atthe top of my list it’s in the top few places I’ve spend time on a game weekend, the Friday night bar we went to in Tuscaloosa a couple years ago may have it beat. For anyone going to South Bend absolutely hit up the Linebacker.
Notre Dame is probably the most disappointing place I’ve seen a game. It was vs Texas too so a big name opponent. It wasn’t bad but I had much higher expectations, which is why I use the word disappointing. The best part of the weekend in South Bend which is a rundown rust belt town was Friday night at the Linebacker Bar. I’ve been to games in college towns all over the county and always arrive to spend Friday night in a college bar. If the Linebacker isnt atthe top of my list it’s in the top few places I’ve spend time on a game weekend, the Friday night bar we went to in Tuscaloosa a couple years ago may have it beat. For anyone going to South Bend absolutely hit up the Linebacker.
While the school Notre Dame fighting Irish is a school to you guys, when I was a sophomore at Cimarron-Memorial High School, there was a gang from Western High School called “The Drifters”. I don’t know how long they go back but they they were either “class of 96,94,92, even years etc.” They wore Notre Dame Gear. Their Affiliates were also zoned for Western and they were called “Lil Rascals”. Both of these gangs were white. They wore Washington Redskins gear. Western High School was about just as hood as a school can be at that time.
Anyways, I got baptized into my church September 2nd 1991. Partly because I went to summer school to retake algebra 1 and the great Mr. Perry taught math in 1991.
Well I can’t remember his last name but “Ronald” was a black kid junior year at Western. Him and a white kid wearing “Marithe Froncoid Girboud” jeans took me under their wing and I kinda acted just like them by the time summer school ended. Ronald went to MLK Church of Christ across Booker elementary and was Bobby McClure’s best friend at the time. Ronald died in a drive by shooting as he was outside and was shot in the neck.I cut out his obituary from the RJ and kept it in my first ever wallet. Roderick McClure was the point guard out of CMHS that won the state title in 1994. Roderick died because a drunk driver was going the wrong way on paradise as He was going back to school at Idaho. Prince Fowler went to Gibson, Roderick went to Brinley and they were natural rivals.
going back to the drifters.these kids were douchebags. The class of 96 kids went to Brinley Junior High School and their leader, Nathan Philips looked like a grown ass man. Mustache and all. He was at least 6 foot 2. They bullied all the kids back then.
My mother was a great seamstress and made a white robe out of towels. I had two white robes and gave one to my cousin Ady. Well on Halloween 1991, I thought it was a great idea to dress up as KKK members. I was partly inspired by a B movie preview of Jim Brown dressing up as KKK and dolling out good old justice from a video rental store back in the 80’s. I bought white face paint and I painted my face white and I put Two holes in a pillowcase and a Big pillowcase for candy.. We carried my sister’s softball bats underneath our robes.Ady did NOT put on white face. His crazy little brother just wore a Mexican panchos that were a fashion trend in 1991.
So at my old neighborhood at Tanglewood estates on Torrey Pines/Smoke Ranch Road,I thought we would be safe in the confines of our neighborhood. So as we were trick or treating, some of the white people thought it was hilarious, we got double the candy. My black neighbors thought we were dressed up as ghosts.
Well, on that night, the drifters were bag snatching candy from kids and they were also looking for a freshman kid named Travis Fulkerson who lived in the same neighborhood as me to jump his ass. He was a rollerblader and I don’t know if he was in a rollerblading gang or whatever but they were looking for him.
So anyways, we make our way down a street, and there were about 12-15 drifter little punks. One of the kids snatched my younger cousin’s bag as I was the lead and didn’t see anything.. I said “what’s up” to Nathan but walked past him. Nathan.walked right past me. I turn around and the drifters were surrounding my cousin Ady in the middle of the street. He had his bat out 1 handed with the bat in a sword position and the other hand was holding his candy bag. His mask was off. I see a kid named Philip Gagliardi trying very slowly to creep up from behind with 2 hands to time and grab his bat.
I walked up and hit Philip right in the back of the head, left handed with my bat. Hindsight being 20/20, I wish it were right handed as as I’m a righty but am ambidextrous.Philip fell to the ground. The sound an aluminum bat makes to the back of someone’s skull “conk” is very satisfying. All the drifters back off. I yelled “Wassup” and “Backup mother****ers”. I hit Philip again as he was slumped on the ground. In the commotion I hear, “get the gun” and I yell “Run”. I make a left towards my house. Ady runs to the right and heads the other way. There was a firefighter who lived on the street where it all happened and he chases down Ady and disarms him.
As I’m running down Charteroak street Nathan Philips is chasing me with an oar. I kid you ****ing not, a mother****ing Oar. Yeah the thing that is used to paddle boats. Like how the **** was this kid armed with a weapon so far
Im running and I turn around. I swing at him and I miss. He hits me in the back and we get disarmed by 2 people that are outside. I had a bruise for like 2 weeks
I get to my house and I tell my dad that We got jumped by some people. Being an OG that my dad is, he pulls out his machete and covers it with a white towel and we walk our way back to the scene of the crime.
when we get back, there were cop cars and the cop lights were flashing. The firefighter was using his hose to wash out the blood.
I was sitting in the back of my uncle’s station wagon and according to the kids in the neighborhood, Philip’s dad was yelling “what about that kid” in reference to me. One of the cops tell him “Go fly a kite”. Lol.
as the cops were being distracted, the drifters make their way to our car.Nathan says “I know what you look like. We’ll find you.” My aunt yells for the cops and they quickly dispersed. A brotha cop was clanging the two bats together and shaking his head. I asked if we could get the bats back. He said it had to be impounded
Word spreads really fast at the school. I was really paranoid and bought pepper spray from the karate shop located outside Red Rock theaters. Everytime The bus dropped me off, I would get super anxious like I’m ready to fight. I hated it that year.
one of the kids from Cimarron knocks at Ady’s house that same week . He was a teacher’s aide and him and his girlfriend ask if we were the perpetrators. ****, I have zero clue how they knew where we lived.
anyways, F the drifters and Notre Dame. Sorry Godfather..Pinoys 1, white people 0.
On a serious note, I’m just extremely lucky that I am alive to tell the story. Not proud of it, but God was with us that night. If it were any different, y’all would have done the same thing maybe minus the KKK outfits
My best friend was with some kids from Western on the next street over. If we were on the same street, we would have f’d those kids up.
Anyways, I got baptized into my church September 2nd 1991. Partly because I went to summer school to retake algebra 1 and the great Mr. Perry taught math in 1991.
Well I can’t remember his last name but “Ronald” was a black kid junior year at Western. Him and a white kid wearing “Marithe Froncoid Girboud” jeans took me under their wing and I kinda acted just like them by the time summer school ended. Ronald went to MLK Church of Christ across Booker elementary and was Bobby McClure’s best friend at the time. Ronald died in a drive by shooting as he was outside and was shot in the neck.I cut out his obituary from the RJ and kept it in my first ever wallet. Roderick McClure was the point guard out of CMHS that won the state title in 1994. Roderick died because a drunk driver was going the wrong way on paradise as He was going back to school at Idaho. Prince Fowler went to Gibson, Roderick went to Brinley and they were natural rivals.
going back to the drifters.these kids were douchebags. The class of 96 kids went to Brinley Junior High School and their leader, Nathan Philips looked like a grown ass man. Mustache and all. He was at least 6 foot 2. They bullied all the kids back then.
My mother was a great seamstress and made a white robe out of towels. I had two white robes and gave one to my cousin Ady. Well on Halloween 1991, I thought it was a great idea to dress up as KKK members. I was partly inspired by a B movie preview of Jim Brown dressing up as KKK and dolling out good old justice from a video rental store back in the 80’s. I bought white face paint and I painted my face white and I put Two holes in a pillowcase and a Big pillowcase for candy.. We carried my sister’s softball bats underneath our robes.Ady did NOT put on white face. His crazy little brother just wore a Mexican panchos that were a fashion trend in 1991.
So at my old neighborhood at Tanglewood estates on Torrey Pines/Smoke Ranch Road,I thought we would be safe in the confines of our neighborhood. So as we were trick or treating, some of the white people thought it was hilarious, we got double the candy. My black neighbors thought we were dressed up as ghosts.
Well, on that night, the drifters were bag snatching candy from kids and they were also looking for a freshman kid named Travis Fulkerson who lived in the same neighborhood as me to jump his ass. He was a rollerblader and I don’t know if he was in a rollerblading gang or whatever but they were looking for him.
So anyways, we make our way down a street, and there were about 12-15 drifter little punks. One of the kids snatched my younger cousin’s bag as I was the lead and didn’t see anything.. I said “what’s up” to Nathan but walked past him. Nathan.walked right past me. I turn around and the drifters were surrounding my cousin Ady in the middle of the street. He had his bat out 1 handed with the bat in a sword position and the other hand was holding his candy bag. His mask was off. I see a kid named Philip Gagliardi trying very slowly to creep up from behind with 2 hands to time and grab his bat.
I walked up and hit Philip right in the back of the head, left handed with my bat. Hindsight being 20/20, I wish it were right handed as as I’m a righty but am ambidextrous.Philip fell to the ground. The sound an aluminum bat makes to the back of someone’s skull “conk” is very satisfying. All the drifters back off. I yelled “Wassup” and “Backup mother****ers”. I hit Philip again as he was slumped on the ground. In the commotion I hear, “get the gun” and I yell “Run”. I make a left towards my house. Ady runs to the right and heads the other way. There was a firefighter who lived on the street where it all happened and he chases down Ady and disarms him.
As I’m running down Charteroak street Nathan Philips is chasing me with an oar. I kid you ****ing not, a mother****ing Oar. Yeah the thing that is used to paddle boats. Like how the **** was this kid armed with a weapon so far
Im running and I turn around. I swing at him and I miss. He hits me in the back and we get disarmed by 2 people that are outside. I had a bruise for like 2 weeks
I get to my house and I tell my dad that We got jumped by some people. Being an OG that my dad is, he pulls out his machete and covers it with a white towel and we walk our way back to the scene of the crime.
when we get back, there were cop cars and the cop lights were flashing. The firefighter was using his hose to wash out the blood.
I was sitting in the back of my uncle’s station wagon and according to the kids in the neighborhood, Philip’s dad was yelling “what about that kid” in reference to me. One of the cops tell him “Go fly a kite”. Lol.
as the cops were being distracted, the drifters make their way to our car.Nathan says “I know what you look like. We’ll find you.” My aunt yells for the cops and they quickly dispersed. A brotha cop was clanging the two bats together and shaking his head. I asked if we could get the bats back. He said it had to be impounded
Word spreads really fast at the school. I was really paranoid and bought pepper spray from the karate shop located outside Red Rock theaters. Everytime The bus dropped me off, I would get super anxious like I’m ready to fight. I hated it that year.
one of the kids from Cimarron knocks at Ady’s house that same week . He was a teacher’s aide and him and his girlfriend ask if we were the perpetrators. ****, I have zero clue how they knew where we lived.
anyways, F the drifters and Notre Dame. Sorry Godfather..Pinoys 1, white people 0.
On a serious note, I’m just extremely lucky that I am alive to tell the story. Not proud of it, but God was with us that night. If it were any different, y’all would have done the same thing maybe minus the KKK outfits
My best friend was with some kids from Western on the next street over. If we were on the same street, we would have f’d those kids up.
Thanks for the quality info/suggestions. I'll be flying to Ohio, then driving to South Bend with a friend; staying Friday & Saturday nights at the Hyatt Place.
I personally haven't done it, but ND is going to have a drum circle in front of New York New York on the bridge at 7pm I think the Friday before their game here.
I will be at the game and would love to meet up with some other Rebel fans. Please DM me if you want to coordinate something!
For a moment, I thought you were just jotting down the plot to Weat Side Story and inserting yourself into it.
Damn Teddy lol. White gangs called the Drifters and Lil Rascals? Count me in as one that though dance fighting was about to go down.
I remember moving to Vegas for the first time in 2004 and seeing white kids with blue and red rags hanging out of their pockets. It was wild. You don’t do that in LA or you’d get checked quick.
Also Drifters 13 is an old Sureños gang in LA. Hood was around La Brea and Venice. A bunch of my tagger friends were from crews that fed into Drifters. That ain’t the lifestyle, man. Sh*ts rough. And because of that, f**k Notre Dame lol. I’m with you Teddy. This Mexirican woulda had your back, Holmes.
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