The Sunshine Empire

The day today was a whirlwind, and hardly a moment was to be had to scan the day’s news. Yet as I went about the internets, one story did stick out and brought on a tirade of feelings. The Catholic League was up in arms about comments made by an ESPN2 host about Notre Dame and some landmarks there. These remarks where made at a roast of two ESPN radio personalities, Mike Greenberg and Mike Golic. Mike Golic was a former football player at Notre Dame and she was, like anyone at a fucking roast, breaking some balls. There are so many approaches to this that I need to address.

First, I was raised in the Catholic tradition. To hear my Grandfather, my Grandmother runs the Catholic Church in Northern Florida. My Grandmother’s and Mother’s attendance at Mass brings new meaning to the term religious. I myself spent from Kindergarten to the fifth grade in Catholic School. I have enough Catholic street cred for this rant.

In addition to this, I have actually met Mike and Mike. Walking down a street on the Southbank in Jacksonville during festivities for the 2005 Super Bowl, Greenberg and Golic walked right up to me and asked for directions to Morton’s Steak House. I pointed in a direction that I now know to be the wrong direction. For that I am truly sorry.

During the roast she reportedly said fuck Notre Dame. Now I know of at least one conservative reader of this blog that would say “hell yeah” to that notion. After years of having shit like Rudy shoved down the collective national throat, the country I dare say agrees with that from a strict college football standpoint. She then said fuck Touchdown Jesus. Touchdown Jesus is simply a mural able to be seen from the Fighting Irish’s stadium. It has been said that this mural serves as a good luck charm, and confirmation that God himself was looking down favorably on this college football team in Indiana. It’s fairly sacrelegious in a sense. It has been argued that she then went on to drop the F-bomb on J.C. That in our book is not appropriate, but as we said this is highly disputable.

Whatever the dispute may have been, this did not stop that contemptible little toad of an attention hog Bill Donohue from hooking onto this story like a morey eel. The woman was at a fucking roast and was kidding a Notre Dame player. I don’t know if Bill is familiar with the concept of a roast, but you say some rather vicious shit there. The possible F-bomb on Jesus aside, if you where offended by what she said you were looking for something to get offended at. I am a proud Catholic and think anyone that thinks the woman should be fired is overreacting and acting like the same put upon people that they castigate when they see the same behavior from some other group on the teevee. Lighten up.