NOTRE DAME AND NHL BOTH CAME TO EXIST ON THIS DATE: November 26 marks the anniversary of the founding of two notable institutions. On this day in 1842, a couple of priests stuck in northern Indiana decided to establish the University of Notre Dame:

75 years later, inside the Windsor Hotel in beautiful downtown Montreal, a group of owners got together and formed the National Hockey League.

In addition to a shared birth date and NBC program slots, the NHL and ND also have something else in common - neither is very relevant in today’s sports landscape.