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There s an old joke about being a Notre Dame fan that no matter how bad the Irish lose, it s OK because next week they re probably playing Navy.
Considering the Middies lost 43 straight games against Notre Dame between 1964 and 2007, there was definitely truth behind the punchline. As an aside, the game is an annual affair because the Navy s decision to put and pay for a training facility at Notre Dame during World War II kept the university afloat during lean times; the teams didn t meet this year for the first time since the series began in 1927. It was the second-longest never-interrupted game in Division I football behind Kansas State and Iowa State s Farmageddon game and third-longest uninterrupted rivalry behind Farmageddon and Minnesota and Wisconsin s Battle for Paul Bunyan s Axe. Please consider the distinction between uninterrupted and never interrupted before complaining. It took me a while to figure out, too.
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