In the news, Touchdown Jesus aka the King of Kings, a sixty foot high statue of Jesus with his hands raised to the sky (seemingly to catch a touchdown, thus the moniker), burned to the ground after being struck by lightning. Its true, I am not making this up.... Built at a cost of $250,000, the monument was a tourist drive by attraction since built in 2004. While the author of the report blamed Charlie Weis (the statue being 270 miles south of Notre Dame's home in South Bend), I couldn't help but imagine ways the newspapers (or especially the Onion types) could have reported on the incident:
- Touchdown Jesus is on Fire!
- Another miracle.... Jesus invokes lightning...
- Jesus burns dedication statue as inadequate tribute
- Builders put up statue... God says no thanks...
- Zeus to Jesus - Take that
- Touchdown Jesus burned for dropping the ball
- The King of Kings goes down in a ball of fire

The association to Notre Dame also puts an appropriate spin on it, especially considering Notre Dame has lost 9 of the last 10 bowls it has been in and last won the national championship 22 years ago.

The funniest parts of the news report were:
- Police started issuing citations to the gawkers who snarled traffic
- People were grabbing foam pieces of the statue to take home
- People would often be startled by the statue when they drove by
Good news (I guess) is the founder said the statue would be rebuilt.