... with Dr. Ira Rish, one of Notre Dame's great football fans, for a one-on-one interview. I had been trying to meet with him for about a year, and finally got the chance. We met at a coffee shop along the beach in Boca Raton, Florida at about 9:00 AM. The following is the transcript of the interview:

 

JK: Dr. Rish, what would you prefer I call you?

DR: My good friends call me Doc. Please call me Doc.

JK: Doc, I'd like to start by asking you how you got to be such an Irish football fan.

DR: It started back in New York. I was about nine years old, and me and a friend snuck into Yankee Stadium to see the 1933 Notre Dame-Army game. I wasn't really a big Irish fan at that time—I had been a Columbia Li...

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