{"id":4701,"date":"2010-11-22T16:52:12","date_gmt":"2010-11-22T23:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/?p=4701"},"modified":"2010-12-13T08:54:49","modified_gmt":"2010-12-13T15:54:49","slug":"yankee-stadium-army-notre-dame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/?p=4701","title":{"rendered":"Yankee Stadium:  Army &#8211; Notre Dame."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"DSC_0049.JPG by bronder, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bronder\/5196699027\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4106\/5196699027_982a2e5e94.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0049.JPG\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><a title=\"DSC_0117.JPG by Julie Rubes, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/julierubes\/5198825864\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4113\/5198825864_02f154869f.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0117.JPG\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><a title=\"DSC_0068.JPG by bronder, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bronder\/5198850418\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4144\/5198850418_fc7fbc29e7.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0068.JPG\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><a title=\"DSC_0148.JPG by bronder, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bronder\/5197338044\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4129\/5197338044_2b6e7bc3ea.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0148.JPG\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4112\/5197326262_d6ff8febf8.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0127.JPG\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><a title=\"DSC_0129.JPG by bronder, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bronder\/5196727135\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4085\/5196727135_38e6f32ab2.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0129.JPG\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><a title=\"DSC_0058.JPG by bronder, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bronder\/5196703147\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4152\/5196703147_9337d9de7b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0058.JPG\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"DSC_0148.JPG by bronder, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bronder\/5197338044\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This past weekend <a title=\"Chicagometsfan.com\" href=\"http:\/\/chicagometsfan.com\">Julie<\/a> and I headed to <a title=\"Wikipedia:  Yankee Stadium.\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yankee_Stadium\">Yankee Stadium<\/a> for the <a title=\"NY Times:  Notre Dame Stages a Revival at Yankee Stadium.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/11\/21\/sports\/ncaafootball\/21army.html\">Army &#8211; Notre Dame<\/a> game. \u00a0This was the 50th game between both schools with Notre Dame leading the <a title=\"Wikipedia: Rivalries Notre Dame - Army.\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Notre_Dame_Fighting_Irish_football_rivalries#Army\">series<\/a> 38-8-4. \u00a0The game itself wasn&#8217;t very close after the first quarter with Notre Dame winning 27-3 but the\u00a0environment\u00a0was really unique. Yankee Stadium was absolutely huge for a baseball stadium.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"DSC_0125.JPG by bronder, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bronder\/5197325350\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5001\/5197325350_928f99f43d_t.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0125.JPG\" width=\"100\" height=\"67\" \/><\/a><a title=\"DSC_0122.JPG by bronder, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bronder\/5196722455\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4084\/5196722455_7918d43de9_t.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0122.JPG\" width=\"100\" height=\"67\" \/><\/a><a title=\"DSC_0115.JPG by bronder, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bronder\/5196721545\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4154\/5196721545_c90cc0b629_t.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0115.JPG\" width=\"100\" height=\"67\" \/><\/a><a title=\"DSC_0110.JPG by bronder, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bronder\/5197321828\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4111\/5197321828_b87c8d1528_t.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0110.JPG\" width=\"100\" height=\"67\" \/><\/a><a title=\"DSC_0106.JPG by bronder, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bronder\/5197320700\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4133\/5197320700_6bc6572c36_t.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0106.JPG\" width=\"100\" height=\"67\" \/><\/a><a title=\"DSC_0102.JPG by bronder, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bronder\/5196718387\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4126\/5196718387_fea433ee07_t.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0102.JPG\" width=\"100\" height=\"67\" \/><\/a><a title=\"DSC_0100.JPG by bronder, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bronder\/5197318508\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4112\/5197318508_8aa829c682_t.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0100.JPG\" width=\"100\" height=\"67\" \/><\/a><a title=\"DSC_0098.JPG by bronder, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bronder\/5197317368\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4128\/5197317368_11f5448178_t.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0098.JPG\" width=\"100\" height=\"67\" \/><\/a><a title=\"DSC_0072.JPG by bronder, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bronder\/5196705319\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5281\/5196705319_626f2c7045_t.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0072.JPG\" width=\"100\" height=\"67\" \/><\/a><a title=\"DSC_0061.JPG by bronder, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bronder\/5197305426\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5081\/5197305426_bcd3f722dd_t.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0061.JPG\" width=\"100\" height=\"67\" \/><\/a><a title=\"DSC_0048.JPG by bronder, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bronder\/5196697945\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5001\/5196697945_7eb6533d67_t.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0048.JPG\" width=\"100\" height=\"67\" \/><\/a><a title=\"DSC_0175.JPG by Julie Rubes, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/julierubes\/5198250951\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4149\/5198250951_60acb504a3_t.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0175.JPG\" width=\"100\" height=\"67\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the more interesting parts of the night was the game balls arriving via Army paratroopers. \u00a0The jumbo tron had a video of them with head cams on in the plane and then throughout the entire jump. \u00a0It was\u00a0surreal\u00a0to see the stadium coming into view as these guys\u00a0descended.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/17097658?color=ffffff\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"DSC_0092.JPG by bronder, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bronder\/5197315502\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5121\/5197315502_53c7252708.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0092.JPG\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"DSC_0091.JPG by bronder, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bronder\/5196713117\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5282\/5196713117_4f41fed577_t.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0091.JPG\" width=\"100\" height=\"67\" \/><\/a><a title=\"DSC_0086.JPG by bronder, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bronder\/5196711237\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5002\/5196711237_c592020012_t.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0086.JPG\" width=\"100\" height=\"67\" \/><\/a><a title=\"DSC_0081.JPG by bronder, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bronder\/5196709305\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4151\/5196709305_9b2db46dc4_t.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0081.JPG\" width=\"100\" height=\"67\" \/><\/a><a title=\"DSC_0078.JPG by bronder, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bronder\/5197308378\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4113\/5197308378_f22a4c0002_t.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0078.JPG\" width=\"100\" height=\"67\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Side Notes:<\/p>\n<p>* The View From My Seat:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The View From My Seat - by bronder, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bronder\/5193638618\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4133\/5193638618_fbb6a5b21e.jpg\" alt=\"The View From My Seat -\" width=\"500\" height=\"374\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>** Julie (who took the majority of the photographs at the game) and I spent the early part of the day watching College Football at <a title=\"Blondies.\" href=\"http:\/\/blondiessports.com\/\">Blondies<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4086\/5197297360_7847744fc2.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0045.JPG\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/p>\n<p>*** Thanks to Emily for getting us the tickets to the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past weekend Julie and I headed to Yankee Stadium for the Army &#8211; Notre Dame game. \u00a0This was the 50th game between both schools with Notre Dame leading the series 38-8-4. \u00a0The game itself wasn&#8217;t very close after the first quarter with Notre Dame winning 27-3 but the\u00a0environment\u00a0was really unique. Yankee Stadium was absolutely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,19],"tags":[437,435,103,247,425,436],"class_list":["post-4701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","category-travel","tag-army","tag-bronx","tag-college-football","tag-new-york","tag-notre-dame","tag-yankee-stadium"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pazIS5-1dP","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4701"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4718,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4701\/revisions\/4718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}