Biggest Day Of The Year For The Irish

A win is a win, finally.

I work on Saturdays, in the day at the Vail Information Center and at night at Billy's Island Grill. At the restaurant, we have some tvs in the bar area so I try to keep up on college football. This particular evening, the Notre Dame Fighting Irish were playing a late game against UCLA, which I thought was being broadcasted on ABC. When myself and the other football gurus flicked furiously through the channels, we realized, the game was being televised by ESPN GamePlan, to which our restaurant had not subscribed. Probably for the best, we weren't expected to win. That's the nice thing about low expectations, you get happily surprised sometimes.

I tried to keep an eye out throughout the night for the game tickers during other football games that might show the score. I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw 20-6 in the 4th quarter, Notre Dame on top of UCLA. I became a raging lunatic, promptly putting together an attack plan of how I would somehow watch the closing 4th quarter. I looked up in the phone book the number for a neighboring establishment, a sports bar which I thought must have the game on. Bingo, I was in luck. Next step, pawn off my two dining customers to another waiter, and oh yeah, somehow have my boss, also the owner, allow me to just take off in this frenzy. His first response, no way... second response, yes, if you can explain it to your customers. Now I probably couldn't sell water to someone in the Sahara Desert but expressing my compelling desire to watch this game was no problem. Off I went to watch the dramatic 4th quarter in which Notre Dame proudly won its first game, and only game to date of the season!

Iam highly indebted to my co-worker who took care of my customers and to the owner Billy who kindly allowed me to watch this victory....