I bleed...

Blue and Gold!

Yep, I do. I've been a Notre Dame fan ever since I can remember.

Living next to the city that houses the storied campus has fed the fever for years. Although I've never been to a game, I feel connected to this team.

This year was special. An undefeated regular season and a trip to the National Title Game. AMAZING!

There are some amazing players on the 2012 Irish football team. Of course there's Manti Te'o. He is amazing both on and off the field. If you haven't heard of him (football fan or not) you must be living in a hole!

Everett Golson, the red-shirt freshman, stepped in to lead the team at quaterback. Watching him grow this year was awesome. He matured so much throughout the season that I know, next year, he's going to do great things.

There are so many players I could mention, so many, but I digress.

I told myself, "Even if they don't win the title, it was an amazing season!" And it was, BUT...Alabama (it kills me to even type that) was, by far, the better team Monday night. They knew how to shut the Irish down. And they did. The score was SO one sided throughout the entire game that I wanted to cry for "our guys."

I suppose the thing that bothers me most about the loss (other than the 42-14 score) is that now all the critics are going to feed off of their defeat. I'll have to listen to shouts of "We told you they had an easy schedule" and "They're not relevant, like we've been saying all season long."

Hold your heads up boys! 12-0 regular season is nothing to sneeze at, but I'll take that tissue to cry over the title loss.

~Kim