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.