nancy odell for our partners at entertainment tonight backstage with brooks to learn what he thoughts and seven heisman trophy winners but it's never hosted a concert until now. >> feel nerg vous, feing nervou good. >> if you can get that first hit. >> reporter: garth brooks talked about a football analogy. >> get the first play underneath your belly, get hit and get going. >> reporter: those first ever live concerts at notre dame stadium. when you heard that you've done magnificent things. what was your reaction? >> flattered, happy for country music. country music will be the first audience in here for a concert. >> reporter: fans of the fighting irish are the most fervent in the nation. something brooks is counting on. >> you study the golden dome and the word of life which the students have, they talk about there's a feeling here. you think that's just for people that went there, right? you walk out there, you can feel it. it's underneath your feet. in your heart. the second i walked out, holy cow. >> reporter: that school spirit is a theme in films such as "newt rockne, all amer

columnist kim strassel and editorial page kate bachelder odell, kim, let's start with powerful democrats in the house of representatives, nancyosi, is she really seriously challenged for speaker? >> she does seem to have a potential math problem. there's repeatedly a letter out there which 17 democrats already signed they would not vote for her, that would come up short getting 218 she would need and the other thing that's become problematic the emergence of marsha fudge, people talking about whether or not she could run and if she were to throw her hat in the ring, she's from the ohio and this would solve the gender problems democrats say they have if they were to get rid of speaker pelosi. paul: kim, the gender card, supporters are playing it really hard, look, you can't afford at the democratic party to be seen opposing a woman as leader, but hey, if you want to rise to the top of something, you know, and then say well, we have the break the glass ceiling, sometimes you have to fall through the glass floor once in a while, no? >> it's a ridiculous -- this isn't about gender, supporters have been claiming, this is just abou