The stories give much more flavor to the messy situation than the media reports of the last year. He takes a no-holds-barred approach in telling the intertwined stories involving the end of careers for both Willingham and former University President Father Edward Malloy. His description tells of the political machinations at Notre Dame in recent years. It is at this point where Eden relates how football is one of the key components to the University. While Eden uses NDNation as the starting point for his examination of the 2004 season, he also tells of the storied history of Notre Dame football and its particular struggles in the past decade. NDNation, considered the number-one place on the Internet for Notre Dame news and talk, is a place where Notre Dame fans increasingly congregated during the 2004 season to armchair quarterback, coach and administrate. One amazing story tells of a parish celebrating a Mass with their pastor from the back of an SUV amidst hundreds of other fanatic, beer-drinking tailgaters.Д®den devotes much of the book to fandom on the Internet, mostly on the fan website. Readers witness the passion of these fans that organize cross country trips and set up massive tailgate parties before games. Eden narrates through the season by introducing readers to various groups of Notre Dame fans from all walks of life who make weekly pilgrimages to South Bend every fall. вЂњTouchdown JesusвЂќ accomplishes this while telling the story of the turbulent 2004 football season and controversial firing of former Irish head football coach Tyrone Willingham three years after his hiring. вЂњTouchdown Jesus: Faith and Fandom at Notre DameвЂќ ($25, Simon and Schuster, 2005) by 1997 alumnus Scott Eden is a book that explores exactly what it means to be a Notre Dame fan from the perspectives of students, alumni and the sometimes neither Irish nor Catholic вЂњsubway alumni.вЂќ Notre Dame fans, however, are different from any other college football fans because to root for Notre Dame means cheering for much more than just a football team.

These legendary lines conjure various images of greatness for any Notre Dame football fan.

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