College Football Hall of Fame (subtitle: Notre Dame's Bulk Brick Purchase)

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This is the College Football Hall of Fame in South Bend, Indiana.

This is Michigan football coaching legend Fielding Yost. He was instrumental in the early years of the program, and coached the famous "point-a-minute" teams. Michigan memorialized him by naming a skating rink after him.

This is Michigan State football coaching legend Biggie Munn. Biggie may not have been real his first name, no one knows for sure. Michigan State memorialized him by naming a skating rink after him.

K executes a training exercise to see how high he can jump.

M runs in place to see how many steps he can take in ten seconds. I tried this but I ran so unusually fast that the pads could not record all of my steps. According to the machine, both K and M beat my score.

This protective gear was worn on the head, in case there is any question.

M and K in front of Notre Dame's so-called "Touchdown Jesus" artwork. It is named that because it is across the street from the football stadium. On TV it looks like it's right next to the stadium, but it's several hundred yards away.

Despite what you might think (or what Notre Dame fans might believe), wearing U of M clothing so close to Touchdown Jesus did not cause thunder, lightning, pestilence, floods, ants in the pants, or university-strength cooties. Later on the trip, however, I found that I was not enjoying my Wendy's fries very much, and I wonder if that could have been a delayed curse or plague of some sort. More investigation is needed.

Every building we drove or walked past on the ND campus, and I mean every single one, was made of the the same color and pattern of bricks. Every building. Even the stadium was made of them. This picture is of the stadium wall, but you would not know that if I hadn't told you. I cannot stress enough how every single building we saw had the same color and pattern of bricks.

Here's a closeup of the building with the artwork - it has the same bricks. See - I told you!

A fun day for us, and a quick trip in and out of Indiana. I know I spent a lot of time covering Notre Dame, but I was able to think of a lot more jokes about them than the college players and coaches (yes, I'll spare you my O.J. Simpson jokes.)

The College Football Hall of Fame was a neat place. If you're thinking of going there, you can do it in an afternoon, so don't feel like you have to be there when the doors open to get your money's worth. And don't stay in South Bend too long or you'll start humming the Notre Dame fight song...

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