SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- Two days after the end of the State College Spikes season, we witnessed a different kind of walk.
This one occurred at 1:17 p.m., Saturday when the Notre Dame's football team left the Basilica after its prayer service.
Thousands of fans created a gauntlet outside the spectacular church to watch the Fighting Irish trot from campus to Notre Dame Stadium. Digital cameras flashed pictures and the applause was comparable to the one Tiger Woods receives when he walks down the 18th fairway at a major championship.
Everything about the walk seemed perfectly planned from the security (cops on bikes) to the order of the team (quarterback Brady Quinn led the group and coach Charlie Weis emerged from the church last). Even some Penn State fans couldn't keep themselves from smiling during the event.
