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My first game...'81 USC...met ND legend Adam... by Fresno Mike

...Walsh.

It was the ND Club of Los Angeles charter trip to the game which included the game ticket. Drove down to LA from Fresno to LAX to catch the NDCLA charter flight not knowing anyone. I had just joined. And I was so damn excited. An uncle of mine graduated from ND in '50...Leahy's run of dominance. He never saw the Irish lose in his four years there.

But I digress.

I find the gate at LAX for the NDCLA trip and join the line. Right ahead of me is an elderly gent and a younger woman. The man turns around and looks me up and down and asks, "Did you play football." I didn't think sandlot ball counted so I told him that I did not play football, that I was on the tennis team in college. He half smiles, looks me in the eyes, and says, "Well, you should have played football", then turns around to face the front of the line.

The younger woman that was with him turns to me then and asks if I know who he was. I didn't. She proceeds to tell that he is Adam Walsh, the center and captain of Rock's '24 Four Horsemen national championship team. He was heading back to ND for their 50th anniversary memorial of Rock's loss in the plane crash. He was introduced on the field at halftime during the ceremony.

Me and my buddy to this day who I met on the trip, Big Lou, from San Pedro tried to hang around Adam as much as we could. He was most gracious and I still have the ND-USC game program from that day (Rock on the cover). Adam signed it, "Mike, God bless. Adam Walsh."

ND lost. SC had Marcus Allen and he won the Heisman that year. But I felt like I won being able to meet Adam Walsh.

Enjoy the time there with your son. What a great memory for him to carry with him the rest of his life.