OT: BYU is fairly decent at this Hail Mary thing
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If they get past UCLA next week in similar come from behind in the last seconds fashion I suspect a lot of Notre Dame fans might start converting.
This is the weirdest argument I've seen on these boards in a while. Why would Irish fans convert? Most are Catholics. This is a Mormon institution.
Second, ND is doing pretty well so far this season. I don't see anyone jumping off that wagon anytime soon.
What argument?
Maybe this (from Wikipedia) will make my tongue in cheek comment more salient:
A Hail Mary pass is a very long forward pass in American football, made in desperation with only a small chance of success. The term became widespread after a December 28, 1975 NFL playoff game between the Dallas Cowboys and the Minnesota Vikings, when Cowboys quarterback Roger Staubach (a Roman Catholic) said about his game-winning touchdown pass to wide receiver Drew Pearson, "I closed my eyes and said a Hail Mary."[1] Previous to this play, a last-second desperation pass had been called several names, most notably the "Alley-Oop".
The expression goes back at least to the 1930s, being used publicly in that decade by two former members of Notre Dame's Four Horsemen, Elmer Layden and Jim Crowley. Originally meaning any sort of desperation play, a "Hail Mary" gradually came to denote a long, low-probability pass attempted at the end of a half when a team is too far from the end zone to execute a more conventional play, implying that it would take divine intervention for the play to succeed. For more than forty years use of the term was largely confined to Notre Dame and other Catholic universities
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your "joke" would make more sense in the opposite direction...if HailMary's work so well for BYU, the BYU's faithfuls may start converting to Catholicism!
