Yale beats Harvard: And Then There’s the Matter of the Football Game
Headached and frostbitten, Harvard students are still trying to figure out what went wrong. Another year of heightened party restrictions and generally pitiful party behavior in Cambridge proves once again that even though Harvard outscored Yale in The Game, Yale still scores more in general. Harvard kids managed to screw up their own pep rally by getting too rambunctious during a Girl Talk concert. To boot, Crimeds botched the 40-year-old Crimson-YDN pigskin challenge by failing to show up to the game. They even refused to open the doors of 14 Plympton St to let the Elis in for a drink.
The Crimson Crazies can blame the Boston Police Department for cutting this year's tailgate short, but the Girl Talk incident is unforgivably the fault of the fun-starved students who organized it. (Really, putting Greg Gillis on a flimsy stage with a PA system is like putting a hungry tiger in a preschool playground.) Meanwhile, the hope that ever-tightening restrictions in Boston and Cambridge might pull the focus back to the football also turns out to be a bit bogus. From the looks of it, there are just as many police officers on the field as gridiron giants. For all the buzz and hullaballoo, this year's 125th anniversary of The Game succeeds, yet again, in stirring more nostalgia than cocktails.
Check out some pictures from the festivities along with B-list celebrity gossip after the jump.
Yale pranks were always been better than Harvard pranks, but Elis might finally be giving up completely on having fun at Harvard Stadium. According the the YDN, the Yale-Princeton tailgate is the next big thing. Evidently, Harvard does kind of suck.
At least celebrities are still showing up to party according to a few sightings of Office star B. J. Novak at the Fly. That final club evidently staged a party coup and rocked it Gold Coast style by throwing its own exclusive bash in their country club of a house so that you wouldn't even have to cross the river (or go to the football game) to get battered. But remember when Harvard used to pull in A-listers like Natalie Portman and Matt Damon?
We do. These days the savant projects in Cambridge are still bad at partying. But they are getting wittier at being pretentious:
Oh. And three cheers for HUPD's sparkling new rave green gear. You're blending in nicely so far.
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November 24th, 2008 at 1:50 pm
“Really, putting Greg Gillis on a flimsy stage with a PA system is like putting a hungry tiger in a preschool playground.”
So Girltalk is a hungry tiger in a playground and that’s what went wrong? What?
Granted, the whole thing would have been FINE if there had just been some simple barriers up, then no one would have rushed the stage, but supposedly not having stage barriers is in GirlTalk’s contract. So.
November 24th, 2008 at 5:36 pm
yo– that Harvard video commercial is hilarious
November 24th, 2008 at 5:37 pm
Love that Yale Aid video
November 24th, 2008 at 5:42 pm
The Harvard infomercial would be much funnier if I hadn’t been repeatedly accosted by homeless people during my stay in Cambridge.
And what did the Yale band do to get suspended?
November 24th, 2008 at 5:44 pm
That Yale Aid Hotline ad is so funny. The faces that Yale guy makes are hilarious.
November 24th, 2008 at 5:50 pm
The Yale Aid video is Hilarious!
It’s ingenious! I mean u have to grant it to Harvard student, they might not be party-kings, but they make up for it in brains!
This is the best thing I’ve ever seen!
November 24th, 2008 at 5:53 pm
Seriously, has anyone tried calling the Yale Aid Hotline? Because you totally should. I’m not going to give away the secret, but it’s pretty darn funny…
November 24th, 2008 at 6:02 pm
Sorry guys, but bashing on the awesome gothic architecture you don’t have isn’t the harshest thing you could have come up with. Same with the New Haven bit (like Y10 said, I saw more homeless guys in Cambridge than NH). Leave the funny to Dartmouth.
November 24th, 2008 at 6:07 pm
Harvard 10, Yale 0.
Suck it.
November 24th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
Actually, when I was at Yale last year, a police car blocked off a corner where my friends and I were waiting because, apparently, as the officer told us, New Haven is too unsafe to leave a group of 60 college students outside unprotected after 3pm. No lie. So maybe Cambridge has more homeless people, but at least you don’t have to fear rape/murder like you do in NH!
November 24th, 2008 at 6:09 pm
Amen to that. SCOREBOARD! (US NEWS!)
November 24th, 2008 at 6:24 pm
YDN’s whining aside, what really caught my eye was this Yale Aid piece. i really got a kick out of it!
November 24th, 2008 at 6:24 pm
I LOVE the Harvard/Yale Hotline ad! So clever!
November 24th, 2008 at 6:28 pm
Wait, that video is actually hilarious. Also, fuck the YDN.
November 24th, 2008 at 6:35 pm
love the sponsor a yalie video. so funny
November 24th, 2008 at 7:55 pm
lol,
I went to Yale, and I still think that video’s hilarious. Also, I totally knew some people at Yale who were actual retards, exactly as this video postulates.
November 24th, 2008 at 7:55 pm
harvard sucks forever. the tailgate was miserable and cambridge is boring as hell. have fun in class this week, suckers.
November 24th, 2008 at 8:02 pm
oh shit! I just called that number for shits– those Harvard kids are clever.
November 24th, 2008 at 8:10 pm
I gotta admit, harvard sucks dick. Like for example, ever notice how much dick they suck? Total dick suckers.
but
that yale aid video was seriously the shit’s shit. That shit makes me almost reconsider my stance on harvard being dick suck university. almost.
but seriously. that video was great.
SUCK DICK HARVARD, SUCK MY MANY DICKS
November 24th, 2008 at 8:20 pm
Harvard needs to learn how to throw a tailgate
November 24th, 2008 at 8:24 pm
yale just got imp-yaled by this video.
November 24th, 2008 at 8:35 pm
Seriously the Crimson just blew them off on that pick up game? Lame. Weren’t you the ones that challenged them in the first place? http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=525140 This doesn’t count as a prank this counts as you guys being d-bags.
-The world
November 24th, 2008 at 11:16 pm
Rest assured the risk of getting raped or murdered in the worst parts of Boston are just as high, if not higher, than those in New Haven. Both are urban areas; that’s how it works. Neither school, however, is located in the worst part of its respective town. Given that New Haven is smaller, that part is more proximate to campus, and sure, Cambridge is still nicer… we’ll give you that… but the bill stops there. I’ll still take New Haven, a #3 US News ranking and losing football games over going to Harvard any day of the week, and that ain’t just cognitive dissonance talking.
November 24th, 2008 at 11:20 pm
well cantabs, your video might have been funny were it not for the fact that
a) you still can’t come up with a joke other than “New Haven is dangerous” (seriously, how many hundreds of times have you beaten that one to death over the years?)
b) it oozes the pretentiousness we’ve all come to expect from you sad sacks in Massachusetts.
Way to live up to our low expectations of you.
November 25th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
So I’m gonna go ahead and defend that little video.
It only has one joke, that being of new haven?! Damn Yalies, you can really suppress some thoughts, must be that cognitive dissonance I hear about.
1) It makes fun of New Haven
2) It makes fun of you dumbass graduates (bush, bush, and taft)
3) It also makes fun of how pretentious Harvard students are seen as by taking to the complete extreme.
4) Call the number at the bottom of the screen, there is another joke there
4) Lastly it makes you guys look a bunch of dejected, rejected, monkeys.
Go Colombia!
November 25th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
Might it have been a little funnier if he didn’t say “over 11,000 undergraduates have to sleep at Yale,” when actually, the number of undergraduates is about 5,300, something easily checked by Wikipedia? Number of students =/= number of undergraduates.
November 25th, 2008 at 5:56 pm
Maybe by 11,000 they were actually including the Yale grad schools (which is actually a fact)– which really amount to no more than a Harvard undergraduate education in the first place…
Go University of Virginia!
November 27th, 2008 at 2:58 pm
The video is funny, but not particularly clever…I have yet to call the hotline, though, so we’ll see.
University of Virginia? lol.
November 29th, 2008 at 3:40 am
@ Y’10: EXACTLY!! Harvard square is PACKED with hobos. All Harvard’s sidewalks sort of stink too.
November 29th, 2008 at 11:43 pm
clearly the only girl talk concert you’ve made it to is the one at harvard. barriers definitely ruin the ambiance and keep girls from stripping on stage (see: Cornell’s show two years ago)
November 30th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
According to that Yale Aid Video, Harvard kids think that the plural of “roof” is “roofs.” Embarrassing.
December 8th, 2008 at 2:52 am
@Y’10: Really?
http://tinyurl.com/6z8u7z
December 14th, 2008 at 12:36 am
I visited Harvard and was literally afraid to leave my car parked unattended on the street in Cambridge to attend the information session and take the tour; visited Yale and New Haven looked like typical ghetto areas I had seen in New York and New Jersey, nothing exciting or cosmopolitan about it.
GOOOOOOOOOO TIIIIIIGERS!!!!!!