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TIL Notre Dame Football isn't variant of football with different rules called Notre Dame for some reason but NBC coverage of standard college football games involving University of Notre Dame. Disclaimer: I'm not from the US and my knowledge of football ends with knowing what NFL and Super Bowl are.

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