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The pride and tradition of the...

NBDefektor

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We all (sort of) know the line: "the pride and tradition of the colorado buffaloes will not be left to the timid or the weak," right? Well has anyone else seen the ESPN teasers for the notre dame-oklahoma game? They have one guy for the irish saying this same thing but switching out "colorado buffaloes" for "the irish."

So the question becomes, who had the slogan first? is our "tradition" really just a straight-up rip-off of notre dame's?
 
Brian Kelly said it was put up the day he started there. Texas, Cal, and UW also have versions in their sports complexes. I dont remember where Mac got it from.
 
ND also tries to claim the "Play Like a Champion Today" as original to them.

PLAY LIKE A CHAMPION TODAY

Bud Wilkinson put up the sign early in his OU coaching career. Maybe in 1947. No later than 1950 or 1951.
That sign today sits in the Switzer Center museum. The words are reprinted on the mural in the tunnel that leads onto Owen Field. So Casey Walker and Trey Millard and Bronson Irwin and Javon Harris will touch the same message as they take the field to play Notre Dame on Saturday night.

But PLAY LIKE A CHAMPION TODAY is part of Notre Dame's lore.
Lou Holtz and NBC and the mystic quality of the Fighting Irish have conspired to place the sign's tradition in Notre Dame's possession, even though it wasn't hung, as far as anybody can remember, in South Bend before 1986.
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fatbuff said:
Brian Kelly said it was put up the day he started there. Texas, Cal, and UW also have versions in their sports complexes. I dont remember where Mac got it from.
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I've seen it at Michigan,so Mac may have picked it up there
 
Many attribute this saying as originating from Eisenhower in his first inaugural address on January 20, 1953.

"We must be ready to dare all for our country. For history does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. We must acquire proficiency in defense and display stamina in purpose."

http://www.bartleby.com/124/pres54.html
see para 47
 
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