Real Life Win One for the Gipper

This post at Newmark's Door about Chalie Weis' recent decent act to a kid dying of cancer reminded me of another inspirational story.

This year the Irish were on the other end of an inspirational cancer story but back in 1993 they were on the receiving end.

Notre Dame was #1 in the country, coming off a big win against Florida State and was sure it would win the national championship. All that stood in their way was Boston College. What the Irish did not know was that the Eagles had "adopted" a kid with cancer. Tom Coughln had made arrangements for this kid to attend all the practices and home games during the season and the kid was basically treated as a member of the team. The week of the Notre Dame game the kid died and his last wish was to see Boston College beat Notre Dame.

The kid did not live to see the final score of Boston College 41 / Notre Dame 39 but the Eagles players knew he was watching somewhere.

True story. I wish I could find a link. It makes me misty every time I think about the story.