Break the news to your Northeast Philly uncle that he’s got another streaming platform he’ll be signing up for. Peacock is releasing a new Notre Dame series in a couple weeks that gives you an inside look into the program and it looks awesome:

 

When this debuts the Northeast is going to look like a small rural town on a high school Friday night. From Mayfair to Somerton and from Bustleton to the Tacony-Palmyra bridge, businesses will be shuttered with cardboard signs that say, “Gone to Watch ND.” Leprechaun calf tattoos will be pulsating at the first crack of the pads in spring ball. ND is back. You look to your signed Tom Zbikowski jersey hanging on the wall and wonder if this is the year. The ND Championship banner from Rally House collecting dust in your basement is once again glimmering with signs of hope. Hope that you’ll be able to add the year “2024” to it this season. “Feels like ’88,” you mumble to no one but yourself in between swigs of Twisted Tea. At the first sight of Touchdown Jesus you promise yourself after being a fan for 30 years you’re going to book that trip to South Bend, Indiana you and the boys have been talking about down at the pub forever. Outside, tumbleweeds roll through Frankford & Cottman. People who weren’t lucky enough to have a distant family member go to Notre Dame walk by wondering why the town is so dead, can only hear the faint sound of “Dunh, dunh, dunh, dunh, dunh, dunh, dunh, dunh dunh.” vibrating their neighbor’s plastic siding.

By episode three you’ve convinced yourself they can win the whole thing. If they can just get past A&M and not slip up during the cupcakes portion of the schedule it’ll come down to winning one of the two against Florida State and USC. They do that they’re poised to be a #5 seed in the new CFB playoff.

I can’t wait until Peacock releases the heat map of the people who watched this doc and it is just the same exact map of Twisted Tea’s demo:


PS: Honest question: Do the younger people care about Notre Dame like our fathers, uncles, and grandfathers did? Of course they only fell in love with them because they were all Irish Catholic and Notre Dame was the only consistent nationally televised game on every week. College football isn’t big in Philly unless you went to Penn State. Temple alumni don’t even know if they have a program anymore after the Matt Rhule days. But I feel like I see more Alabama gear in the city than I do ND.