Please don't wait until Friday -- and definitely not Saturday!
Go to your email RIGHT NOW and search for these words: YOUR MOBILE TICKETS HAVE ARRIVED
Once you find the email -- just follow the instructions. I am telling you right now -- please don't show up Saturday at Notre Dame Stadium with no idea where your tickets are. You will not enjoy the experience of waiting in line for help.
Get after your tickets and parking passes TODAY and download them to your APPLE WALLET or GOOGLE PAY.
Here's a team-by-team look at all of the former Notre Dame football players still getting paid by a NFL team -- after rosters were cut down to 53 -- and players were signed to practice squads. As of 6 PM ET on September 1st:
Atlanta Falcons
Ade Ogundeji
Baltimore Ravens
Miles Boykin
Daelin Hayes
Ronnie Stanley
Carolina Panthers
J.J. Jansen
Tommy Tremble
Troy Pride, Jr -- Injured / Reserve
Chicago Bears
Alex Bars
Cole Kmet
Sam Mustipher
Cincinnati Bengals
Khalid Kareem
Cleveland Browns
Jeremiah Owusu-Koramoah
Sheldon Day -- Practice Squad
Dallas Cowboys
Zack Martin
Jaylon Smith
Detroit Lions
Scott Daly
Julian Okwara
Romeo Okwara
Jalen Elliott -- Practice Squad
Tommy Kramer -- Practice Squad
Alize Mack -- Practice Squad
Javon McKinley -- Practice Squad
Brock Wright -- Practice Squad
Green Bay Packers
Equanimeous St. Brown -- Practice Squad
Indianapolis Colts
Quenton Nelson
Isaac Rochell
Las Vegas Raiders
Nick Martin
Los Angeles Chargers
Alohi Gilman
Jerry Tillery
Drue Tranquill
Los Angeles Rams
Ben Skowronek
Miami Dolphins
Liam Eichenberg
William Fuller V.
Durham Smythe
Minnesota Vikings
Harrison Smith
New Orleans Saints
Ian Book
Tony Jones, Jr.
New York Giants
Julian Love
Kyle Rudolph
New York Jets
Josh Adams -- Practice Squad
Pittsburgh Steelers
Chase Claypool
Jamir Jones
Stephon Tuitt -- Reserve / Injured
San Francisco 49ers
Aaron Banks
Mike McGlinchey
Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Robert Hainsey
Tennessee Titans
Matthias Farley
Most notable former Notre Dame players that are free agents as of 6 PM ET on September 1st:
Manti Te'o
Dexter Williams
Golden Tate
Donte Vaughn
Asmar Bilal
C.J. Prosise
DeShone Kizer
Bennett Jackson
Jarron Jones
Cole Luke
Tyler Eifert
KeiVarae Russell
Nick McCloud
Former Notre Dame players who have announced their retirement:
The Minnesota Vikings just agreed to a $64,000,000 four-year contract extension with former Notre Dame Football team captain -- Harrison Smith! Over the next eight months Harrison will be paid $22.5 million, the most ever for a safety in NFL history.
Harrison is now the 2nd highest paid former Notre Dame student-athlete of all-time!
Congrats Harrison!
Here's a look at the TOP 30 current and former Notre Dame athletes (football, basketball, baseball and hockey) who have been (and will be) paid the most as a professional athlete:
Ronnie Stanley: $136,145,183 -- not guaranteed, contract to 2025
Harrison Smith: $127,666,546 -- not guaranteed, contract to 2026
Jeff Samardzija: $116,341,666
Zack Martin: $100,285,531 -- not guaranteed, contract to 2024
Jaylon Smith: $75,095,997 -- not guaranteed, contract to 2025
AJ Pollock: $68,841,944 -- guaranteed contract to 2023
Anders Lee: $66,044,038 -- guaranteed contract to 2026
Troy Murphy: $66,000,000
Stephon Tuitt: $64,760,551 -- not guaranteed, contract to 2022
Kyle Rudolph: $62,936,853 -- not guaranteed, contract to 2023
Golden Tate: $56,337,672 -- current free agent
Brad Lidge: $55,335,000
Romeo Okwara: $47,258,474 -- not guaranteed, contract to 2023
Bryant Young: $44,000,000
Justin Tuck: $43,248,463
Quenton Nelson: $38,010,393 -- not guaranteed, contract to 2022
John Sullivan: $35,800,027
Jerome Bettis: $35,122,500
Jeff Faine: $34,456,892
Will Fuller: $34,243,347 -- not guaranteed, contract to 2022
Kyle Palmieri: $30,192,154 -- guaranteed contract to 2021
Matt Carroll: $29,537,032
Mike McGlinchey: $29,481,766 -- not guaranteed, contract to 2023
Tim Brown: $28,432,686
Laphonso Ellis: $27,939,000
Rocket Ismail: $27,885,021
Tyler Eifert: $26,310,317
Joe Montana: $26,000,000
Ian Cole: $25,949,694 -- guaranteed contract to 2021
Because of the extreme heat conditions here on campus today -- the University of Notre Dame's Opening of the Academic Year Mass has been moved indoors to the Basilica of the Sacred Heart.
Mass will begin at 5:30 PM ET and can be watched LIVE at the video player above.
Here's a Yahoo! sports story about the alliance between the ACC, Big Ten and Pac 12 -- before today's announcement -- and how it might impact future scheduling for Notre Dame Football...
There was a photo on Twitter today of Ty Cobb giving hitting tips to Mickey Mantle -- see below...
Well, my Dad (Jim Small, Detroit Tigers center fielder) had the same experience with Ty Cobb -- just before my Dad headed to Lakeland, FL for Spring Training in 1957. Here's the newspaper story from the San Francisco Examiner in February of 1957.
The folks at the San Francisco Examiner set up this interview / feature between Ty Cobb and my Dad, after his second season with the Detroit Tigers in 1956. My Dad is one of the very few players in Major League Baseball history to jump straight from high school to the big leagues -- which he did in June of 1955 after his high school graduation from Bellarmine Prep (San Jose, CA). He is 19 years-old in this photo with Cobb.
The photo on bottom left shows Ty splitting my Dad's hands apart on the bat -- which is how Cobb held the bat during his Hall of Fame career...
The coolest moment happened at the end of the day at Cobb's home -- when he went into a closet and pulled out a photo of his first day in a Tiger's uniform in 1905 -- and signed it and gave it to my Dad.
Here is Joe Theismann interviewing my Dad about his baseball career:
