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Old 01-09-2012, 09:00 PM   #5433
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Brady Quinn needs to come in and throw one pass to keep the streak of Notre Dame QBs throwing a pass in the NFL alive..its like 60+ years or something but no one from NotreDame has thrown a pass so far and Quinn is the last hope..

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Very rarely do you get a story fit for Notre Dame boosters and haters. Here is one courtesy of the Wall Street Journal.Reporter Darren Everson points out that the last time a Notre Dame player (there is an asterisk) didn't throw an NFL pass was 1944.
Jimmy Clausen and Brady Quinn, Irish fans turn their lonely eyes to you.
Of course Clausen and Quinn sit behind two of the hottest young quarterbacks -- Cam Newton and Tim Tebow -- in the NFL.
Writes Everson:
After Notre Dame, the next-longest streak belongs to Oregon, surprisingly. The Ducks—who were college-football roadkill for the most part until the 1990s—have a 63-year run going, due largely to three longtime quarterbacks who played in different eras: Norm Van Brocklin (1949-60), Dan Fouts (1973-87) and Chris Miller (1987-95, 1999).
Don't count the Irish out, though. Their streak has been on life support before and pulled through. In 2004, 2005 and 2006, no Notre Dame quarterback threw a pass, but running backs (including Jerome Bettis), punters (Hunter Smith) and receivers who used to play quarterback (Arnaz Battle, Carlyle Holiday) pitched in.
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