Initial reaction and feelings

First and foremost, hats off to the Alabama Crimson Tide for a tremendous performance, secondly congratulations to the Irish for a very successful season.  We will dive more into the game itself in the upcoming days but for now I will characterize my feelings during the game in three phases.

At the start of the game the Fighting Irish looked like the Italian Stallion fighting Clubber Lang; too fast and too strong. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTbF5B1mlNw

At halftime we were coming to the realization that 12-1 with a loss in the championship game was inevitable, but still we didn’t like it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSQxtMWJzGQ

After the game we knew it had not turned out as we had hoped and things actually turned pretty bad but in the end we were thankful to our boys.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLoEkt-hI0o