Notre Dame is interested in celebrating its football history by playing games that will recall some great games of the past, including playing at the new Yankee Stadium.
“I’d be interested as we look forward to scheduling to think about how to sort of echo the history of our program,” athletic director Jack Swarbrick said Thursday. “Obviously there have been some important Notre Dame games at Yankee Stadium so I have a general interest in whether that’s possible to do. None of this is any further than thinking out loud.”
Swarbrick said he took a tour of Yankee Stadium and inquired whether a football field would fit, but the game is only in the idea stage.
“There have been no substantive discussions because among the things that we might conclude here is that the economics don’t work. So we haven’t had any of those,” he said.
A game at Yankee Stadium, though, would work into Notre Dame’s plan to play one game a season at an off-site venue. The Irish will play their first such game against Washington State at San Antonio, Texas, on Oct. 31.
The Yankees declined comment. They also are interested in possible games with Army, Rutgers and Syracuse.
