SOUTH BEND — Freshly showered after another home game that didn’t go their way, four Notre Dame football players carried with them the distinctive smell of soap — Dial? — into a stuffy and stagnant postgame interview room.
No amount of hot water or body wash or shampoo or anything else could completely cleanse the lingering stink from this one. You could try by lathering and rinsing and repeating, but it still would be there.
