I wanted to thank the students of Notre Dame for their warm hospitality over the weekend. I came to your campus — your home — for a bucket list trip to watch Notre Dame play Navy. We arrived onto your campus around 3:30 p.m. Friday. Y’all were besieged by folks like me. Tours running everywhere — I can’t remember ever seeing so many folks walking backward! Tourists absolutely everywhere. I would expect some reasonable resentment of this invasion by the students who still need to get to class or dorms or libraries, etc. I live near D.C. — I understand the aggravation of tourists fumbling in the way of my everyday. But, I encountered just the opposite from the students and staff at Notre Dame. “Can I help you find something?” “Did you hear about [fill in the blank with one of the plethora of game weekend traditions]?” “Can I help with your pic in front of Touchdown Jesus?” I was floored and very appreciative of your welcome! It made this very special weekend for me even more so.

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