Notre Dame Students Throw Snowballs at Their Own Team

File this incident under "never should happen." During Notre Dame's thoroughly embarrassing 24-23 loss to Syracuse, Irish students (I refuse to call them "fans") pelted their own players with snowballs.  I find this one of the strangest and most disgusting incidents to have happened this year at any game. Even stranger, it occurred during the first quarter and after three P.A. announcements requesting that the students stop. One player was hit in the left cheek, according to the Associated Press.  Defensive tackle Pat Kuntz, a senior playing his last game at Notre Dame, was fighting mad after getting hit.  None of the students were man (or woman) enough to take him up on his offer after he invited the offending snowball-thrower to meet him on the field. After the Syracuse debacle and the student interaction, Kuntz is probably saying, "Good riddance," and I wouldn't blame him one bit. There have been a lot of ugly fan incidents in recent years, even snowball incidents.  ... (link)