Uploaded November 2018 | Updated September 2026, 3 days ago
On Citizens for Community Media College Football Hall of Famer, Thom Gatewood, shares his very interesting story from his childhood in Baltimore to Notre Dame as a freshman in 1968 and now recently back to the Notre Dame/South Bend area to live. The story as related here focuses on the 1971 Cotton Bowl between Notre Dame and Texas in Dallas. Peter Helland went to that game with his freshman roommate and friends. Peter was oblivious to the upcoming game as he got embroiled in debates on New Year's Eve with fundamental Christians his age in downtown Dallas over subjects like whether Adam and Eve really existed. Strangely while attempting to obtain a copy of the Naked Ape (to assist him in his arguments) in the downtown bookstore he gets arrested for alleged shoplifting and thrown into the former "Lee Harvey Oswald" jail. He is bailed out the next morning for $25 and attends the game that afternoon.
But Peter was blind to the historical significance of the game he watched and could not really remember. Thom Gatewood tells the story here and makes it a touching story as he gives witness to his confidence through the faith in Christ that he learned from his mother and father partly through their daily family devotions at home.
On Citizens for Community Media College Football Hall of Famer, Thom Gatewood, shares his very interesting story from his childhood in Baltimore to Notre Dame as a freshman in 1968 and now recently back to the Notre Dame/South Bend area to live. The story as related here focuses on the 1971 Cotton Bowl between Notre Dame and Texas in Dallas. Peter Helland went to that game with his freshman roommate and friends. Peter was oblivious to the upcoming game as he got embroiled in debates on New Year's Eve with fundamental Christians his age in downtown Dallas over subjects like whether Adam and Eve really existed. Strangely while attempting to obtain a copy of the Naked Ape (to assist him in his arguments) in the downtown bookstore he gets arrested for alleged shoplifting and thrown into the former "Lee Harvey Oswald" jail. He is bailed out the next morning for $25 and attends the game that afternoon.
But Peter was blind to the historical significance of the game he watched and could not really remember. Thom Gatewood tells the story here and makes it a touching story as he gives witness to his confidence through the faith in Christ that he learned from his mother and father partly through their daily family devotions at home.
