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[caption id="attachment_218" align="alignleft" width="150"]<img class="size-thumbnail wp-image-218" src="https://staging.legionoftheleprechaun.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Jwood-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150"> Founder Jason M. Wood[/caption]
<p class="">I'm a first-generation fan, my father and my grandfather are from Alabama, and he moved to South Bend. I grew up in a household in South Bend, where Alabama football was the thing, and I started watching Notre <span style="font-size: revert; color: initial;">Dame on TV around 1984, so I've been through some ups and downs. Those gold helmets, that golden standard, are what drew me in. I started paying more attention around 1986 when Notre Dame traveled to Birmingham, Alabama, and they played the Tide and got destroyed. So my grandpa, being a Bama Fan, was almost like my father, and I was close to him, so he would always rub it in. He lived in South Bend and was a fish out of the water.</span></p>
<p class="">Then the following year, in 1987, when the Tide came to Notre Dame Stadium, we dismantled them! That's the year of Jimmy Brown and the last Heisman. So I had bragging rights for a long time over my grandpa. My grandpa retired in 1996 and moved back to Alabama. Shortly after, he had a massive stroke, and we got worried we wouldn't have much time with him, so my family and I packed up and moved to Bama. My grandpa passed in 2005.</p>
<p class="" style="border-width: 0px; padding: 0em; margin-top: -35px;">In 2012 Notre Dame started that miraculous run we all saw and couldn't believe, but it happened, so the 2012 National Championship against the Tide in Miami Gardens, FL, means a lot to me. I know Notre Dame got destroyed 42-14, but I had waited for that game for 25 years. So from his heavenly grave, my grandpa will always have eternal bragging rights against me, much like in South Bend. Now I'm looking forward to a victory over Bama.</p>
<p class="">Going forward into the future with my Notre Dame fandom and how I became a fan of the Irish, it's family, and it's a family rivalry that I had with my grandpa. And when we lost to the Tide in 2012, living here in Alabama, Tide fans will constantly shove it down your throat. So it was day after day after day of embarrassment. So how I coped was simple: I dug into Notre Dame's history, giving me a sense of pride unlike anything else. So I searched for a whole year. I knew there was something I needed to do for a year that would get me back to a point where I had confidence and pride in my team. As I learned the history of Notre Dame football, I decided I needed to share it. Living in the South, I needed an outlet. I needed a connection to the old fans. I didn't want to leave but did, and I did it for family reasons.</p>
<p class="">So I created a private community on Facebook and made a public fan page, but I had to name it. So I started going back in my memory and thinking about the past. I always came back to 1986 when this rivalry with my grandpa began, and that was at Legion Field in Birmingham, Alabama, and that's how the name "Legion of the Leprechaun" spawned.</p>
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