Dave Portnoy thanks Notre Dame after Michigan spat
TLDR: Dave Portnoy spent his first weekend in South Bend trading Michigan shots with Notre Dame fans, then named their campus his GOAT of the Week and thanked them for the shirts that helped build Barstool.
Before the Barstool College Football Show went up Saturday, Dave did what he does at every new campus: he went shopping and reviewed it.
Then came the warning shot. Dave is a Michigan Man, and he arrived in South Bend to a fan base that had been chirping him all week. A few hours before the 4:30 show in front of Jordan Hall of Science, he posted a selfie video from the stage that was half peace offering and half threat: keep it friendly, but come after him or Michigan and he will hit back harder.
ATTENTION ALL ND FANS. IMPORTANT INFO IF YOU ARE COMING TO OUR SHOW AT 4:30 TODAY. PLEASE WATCH BEFORE YOU COME
The crowd did not exactly go quiet. Kayce had been betting since that morning that Dave would not get through the day without swearing, and the show turned out to be a no-cuss show. That left the hosts trying to work a hostile South Bend crowd without their usual vocabulary, which is a pretty good handicap for a show built on yelling.
Then Dave went soft on them. For his Reese's GOAT of the Week, the Michigan guy picked Notre Dame's campus, the same place he had been threatening a few hours earlier. Brandon Walker was right there with him afterward and called it the best scene he had ever looked out at during the show.
He also handed out a thank-you that only Barstool could. Back in Barstool's early days, the "play like your fake girlfriend died" shirt, a shot at the Manti Te'o hoax, was a big seller, and Dave told the crowd that Notre Dame fans buying it helped keep the company going.
Shoutout to all the Notre Dame fans who bought “play like your fake girlfriend died” t-shirts and helped grow this company to what it is today!
Notre Dame gave him a good ending, too. That night the No. 11 Irish beat No. 1 Miami 31-24, giving the Hurricanes their first loss of the season. By Sunday morning Dave was thanking Notre Dame for an amazing weekend and announcing the next stop: the Barstool College Football Show heads to Stillwater and Oklahoma State next Saturday. The Michigan grudge isn't over. It just got a week off.
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