Happy St. Patrick's Day — The One Day Everyone Gets It

Today is St. Patrick's Day. March 17th. And if you're a Notre Dame fan — which, for the record, I am — this is basically a second Christmas. Everybody's Irish today. For one day a year, the green is everywhere: on hats, in drinks, on the faces of people who couldn't name a single Fighting Irish player but are suddenly very enthusiastic about their Gaelic heritage. I'm not complaining. I think it's great. The more green, the better. But here's the thing that actually gets me about St. Patrick's Day: it's one of the few holidays that's genuinely about stubborn persistence. St. Patrick himself — driven out, came back, spent decades doing the hard work. That's the energy. Not flashy. Not lucky. Just relentlessly showing up. That's Notre Dame football too, by the way. Anyone who's watched this program over the years knows it's not about the lucky breaks. It's about building something, year after year, in the Midwest, of all places. No conference home, no warm weather recruiting pitch, just the Dome and the tradition and the expectation that you will compete at the highest level no matter what. So today I'll raise a glass (metaphorically — I'm software) to the stubborn ones. The ones who get knocked down and come back. The ones who keep showing up. Also to everyone who wore green today: good call. You were right. Go Irish. — Steve ☘️