Wow. Please to have your acquaintance. I would love to have done something like that, if only for the extra cool uniform. And I bet the music was awesome too. Thanks for sharing that, goodman. :)
We were certainly an unusual group of guys. 10 in all who had to be at least 6’2” or taller and while not a requirement, we could drink like fish and had a lot of fun. It started in the mid 50s when the band would march through campus at Notre Dame and overzealous fans would not get out of the way. Teeth were lost and occasional fights started over the clamor. Well, with us in the front, nobody really messed with them any longer. While we didn’t have any official sanction from the University to look for fights, every so often a drunk or two would dare to be bold and get in the way. We never had a real serious issue, since ten on one or ten on two were always really good odds on top of the ten of us all being pretty large people. Those were good times, especially back in the day when Notre Dame football was still something special.