The “WE ARE ND” cheer is something that I have witnessed since attending games in ’81. It is a part of the ND tradition and game experience just as is the 1812 Overture to the Coach, Sheriff McCarthy’s timeless jokes at the beginning of the 4th quarter, and players joining the students to raise their helmets and join in singing the singing of “Notre Dame Our Mother”, win or lose, at the end of each game. The cheer you refer to is just one of many cheers used throughout, before, and after the game. I have been living overseas and have not been to a game recently. Please don’t tell me things are changing with all this talk of telling people to sit down and be quiet, new uniforms, etc.

-Concerned fan and alum

When exactly was that? That is the way it has been done since I started going to games in ’81.

Don’t.

The students always stand during the game. If you don’t want to have your vision blocked, go to Purdue Games, usually their stadium is empty or everyone is sitting down when there is a big game. I suggest you understand that if you get a seat near the student section you will be standing. This has gone on for years and years and is part of the ND tradition. If you think ND students commit drive-by-shootings you sir are an idiot. The youth are still the same youth as when you were a kid. They act no different at all. Obviously you are just an old grumpy man who wants to blame young kids for all your problems. Try to lighten up and enjoy the last years of your life. You only get one life to live. I guess you feel that being a donor is more important the student body? There wouldn’t be a university without the students. And if you are an alumnus, I suppose you realize the student donate more in tuition fees in one year than you probably did you whole student life at ND and all the money you have given ND. Donate elsewhere, because you have no clue at all what it is to be the Fighting Irish. If you think you can convince ND to make the students sit down, you are delusional. Go listen to your gangster rock and tell the greaser’s and soc’s, I am looking for them both [sic]. Man, you are an idiot. You might want to consider that maybe it is you that is creating your impression of the youth. If you treat them like a jerk, they have every right to reciprocate. Stop being such an ingrate. They are the reason there is ND football. Not anything you have done or will do. But you are probably living off of my tax dollars and complaining about those younger than you. So, I suggest you go back to your cave and stay there until you no longer exist. I am not even close to being young, I am bald, wrinkled, and ugly, but I am not bitter and I am especially not jealous of the student body. Again, please never comment on ndnation again. And learn to spell, it is photos not photo’s, the pictures do not possess anything in your statement. Kind of like how your brain doesn’t possess any intelligence.