This gallery may not appeal to the more Hot-Cheerleaders-In-Slow-Motion-inclined members of the With Leather readership, but don’t be afraid to enjoy it, because at some point during the 1970s the Walt Disney Corporation teamed up with Wonder Bread to give away pennant stickers with loaves of bread that are literally nothing but Disney characters destroying college names with puns. Yes, that’s a sentence I’ve written.

As I see it, there are two fine ways to enjoy this:

1. Flipping through and trying to figure out which school each pennant represents, because some of them are a stretch.
2. Losing control of your neck and bashing your head against the desk in a full-body groan when you realize “Mickey Can Skate” is Michigan State, or whatever.

A third way to enjoy it is through the absurdity of the illustrations, like Cinderella doing 2,000 pounds of laundry in her ball gown or Goofy with a broken leg because you can only make so many puns about Tulane. And yes, ACC fans, here is where you learn about how Disney preappropriated your “dook” joke for Duke and made it about fowl royalty a decade or so before you were born. I kept expecting to see a Virginia Tech pennant where Shan Yu from Mulan is holding up a castrated turkey.

Note: Full credit for these goes to Disney, I guess, but credit for putting them on the Internet goes to Jason Liebig.

[h/t Disney Food Blog]

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Kansas’ Chapman High School calls themselves the “Fighting Irish” and, like so many other high schools and rec league teams across the country, just copy-pastas the Notre Dame University leprechaun logo. Earlier this week, news broke that the school had been formally asked by Notre Dame to stop using the logo. Why is this news? Because the school had been ravaged by tornadoes and only re-opened in January.

Most news outlets have taken a “stay classy” approach to Notre Dame’s demands, calling them out for throwing their weight around and bullying a poor, innocent, geographically-unlucky public school that I guess thinks misfortune puts them above the law and can’t afford to sit a teen down with a pencil and a pad of paper and say “draw us a logo”.

The latest condemnation comes from the only people left in this world I thought I could trust: Next Media Animation, the absurdist geniuses from Taiwan, who have done everything from showing Yao Ming being birthed from a basketball egg to having David Stern chop an NBA-flavored pizza in half with a chainsaw.

I thought maybe they’d understand me and give the Chapman Fighting Irish red monster eyes or something, but nope, even they’ve turned the Notre Dame leprechaun into a whip-lashing slave-driver who wants to destroy the lives of children. The video ends with them giving him the finger and kicking him into the sky, where he disappears in a flash of light like he’s in Team Rocket. At no point do the children get haunted by ghosts or fired into space on a rocket ship.

Is Taiwanese animation getting preachy?

[h/t SOB]

Notre Dame quarterback Tommy Rees spent his Saturday at Ross-Ade stadium, leading the Fighting Irish to a 38-10 win over Purdue Boilermakers. A fight in the stands during a game at Ross-Ade is nothing unusual, especially between drunk college football fans and pissed-off working types stuck making boilers all day, but this one was special — Tommy’s 21-year old sister Meghan was involved, and she was arrested on charges of public intoxication.

From The Exponent, which sounds like something I had to find in math:

Purdue Police Captain Eric Chin said at around 8:30 p.m. officers received a report of a fight occurring in section 116 of the stadium. When the officers responded to the report, fans pointed to Rees as the one causing the disturbance.

“We did discover that a Meghan Rees was implicated as being one of the individuals involved in the disturbance in 116 and she was escorted out of the stands and into the concourse,” Chin said.

All he needed to do was add “particular” in front of “individuals” and he would’ve given the most cop statement of all time. Pictured right is Meghan, looking a little worse-for-wear than her Twitter user photo, and you can click it to see the full-sized version. Hopefully she’ll be healed up and ready to go in time for Saturday’s game against Air Force and will be drunk enough to fight their tough dad dressed like Batman.

As of now there has been no official statement from Tommy or Notre Dame, but hopefully the press release from Tommy just says, “heh, my sister’s a trip, right” and Notre Dames says nothing.

Mark Dantonio’s testicular fortitude trumped the speacial teams coaching of Notre Dame’s Brian Kelly on Saturday night, as Dantonio’s call for a fake field goal won the game for the Spartans in OT (never mind that the play should have been flagged down for delay of game, as evidenced by the zeros shown here). Unfortunately, Dantonio’s circulatory system wasn’t able to show the same resolve — about an hour after the game, the Michigan State head coach suffered what is being described as a “minor” heart attack.

[MSU associate athletic director John Lewandowski] got a call at 2:30 a.m. informing him that Dantonio had a heart attack and would be undergoing an angioplasty. Doctors used a small metallic stent to open a blocked blood vessel leading to his heart, a procedure they say is relatively common.

Because everyone in Michigan is fat!

By 3:45 a.m., Lewandowski learned that Dantonio was in the process of having the procedure, and found out after 4 a.m. that Dantonio was out of surgery and resting. A number of his extended family members were in town for the game and had visited him at the hospital. –FreeP.

The procedure went as planned and Dantonio remains in the hospital for observation. This is obviously much more serious than Urban Meyer’s “I’m stepping aside for health reasons-oh-just kidding” maneuver last Christmas.

But still…a minor heart attack? That’s like saying I got a “minor” beejer from Mila Kunis. It still counts, and there’s probably some parallel with plaque there, but I can’t quite finish that joke. I’m too busy looking for something to take care of these “minor” upholstery stains.

There’s nothing quite like the freedom of the first few weeks at college. It’s just you, you’re quirky roommate, and thousands of pairs of new, exotic tits just waiting to be drunkenly fondled in a frat house basement. Nate Montana, son of NFL Hall of Fame quarterback, Joe Montana, took his totally chill pair of Birkenstocks and acoustic guitar to Notre Dame. And unfortunately for him, they don’t take very kindly to underage alcoholic escapades ’round those parts.

According to WNDU-TV in South Bend, eight members of the Notre Dame football program were among the 43 people arrested Friday night for underage drinking at what sounds like one hellacious party.

Nate Montana, 20-year-old son of Joe Montana and the backup to Dayne Crist at quarterback, was one of the eight-man Irish drinking team busted by the Indiana State Excise Police at a South Bend home.

All eight were held overnight at the county jail until their blood alcohol level had dipped below legal levels, the station reported. –CFT via PFT

At this rate, Nate Montana is going to be more Joe Namath than Joe Montana. How did they possibly arrest 43 people? Did they all just stand around and wait to be arrested? God those kids are stupid. Notre Dame needs more slutty Catholic school girls, and less kids who suck at partying. A truly sweet college party after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »

I’m getting really uncomfortable with all this “Will Charlie Weis be in South Bend come 2010?” talk. It’s annoying; when nobody was looking it turned into the autumn’s answer to Brett Favre’s “Will he or won’t he?” There’s no new information to throw around. And with the new “controversy” surrounding Kansas football coach Mark Mangino, it’s turning out to be a bad year for morbidly obese college football coaches.

But even though the buyout clause in Charlie’s contract is roughly the GDP of New Zealand, everything seems to indicate that Weis will be gone by season’s end. Notre Dame has blocked tracking access to its private plane, providing enough cover for the school to shuttle in potential candidates away from the media’s watchful eye. And that was before he lost to UConn. Hell, ten years ago, UConn was still I-AA. Notre Dame wasn’t doing much better then, either.

I don’t even care anymore. When the regular season ends, we may have four undefeated teams in Division I-A, and all we can talk about is this asshole. Nobody would care if this wasn’t some school that had lost all of its prominence from yesteryear. Hopefully the end of the Weis Era will also mark the end of the People Still Give A Rat’s Ass About Notre Dame era. Sorry, Charlie.