Two more Ws now, after Jonathan Doerer sidewinded the football through the uprights in overtime last night. Two more Ws and Knute Rockne steps aside as Brian Kelly becomes the winningest coach in Notre Dame football's long and endlessly storied history.
What this means is that Brian Kelly is an excellent football coach.
What it doesn't mean is he can do standup comedy.
If you missed it -- and I don't know how you could, given that it's all over the Magic Twitter Thingy and various other forms of social media today -- Kelly tried out an old John McKay line on sideline reporter Katie George after No. 9 Notre Dame outlasted Florida State 41-38 last night. He blew the punchline.
Actually, he took the punchline, chopped it up, sauteed it and then left it on the stove to burn.
The original McKay line was in answer to the question "What do you think of your team's execution?" McKay's answer: "I'm in favor of it."
Witty. Hilarious. And classic McKay.
Kelly's mangling of it, alas, was classic Kelly.
"I'm in favor of execution," Kelly said, after the Irish blew an 18-point lead in the fourth quarter. "Maybe, maybe our entire team needs to be executed after tonight."
Ouch.
Also, clearly Kelly trying to be John McKay and failing.
Also, not what you should say if you once had a kid die on your watch after foolishly deciding to conduct practice in a windstorm.
Also, not a "thing" -- although, because it's 2021, it was a thing because in 2021 everything is a thing, no matter how silly or inconsequential.
Five will get you ten Kelly will issue a public apology today during his weekly day-after presser. Even though he addressed it last night by saying, correctly, "Are you people crazy?"
Why, yes, Coach. Yes, they are.
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