Posted by Johnnymac 2:27 PM
As a lot of you know, I grew up in Texas but I attended college out of state, at a certain small school in a Boston suburb. I cheer for the Longhorns every Saturday, mainly because they're on TV and because I would have gone to school there had I not gotten into Harvard or had Fred Goldsmith not rescinded his verbal offer of a football scholarship to Rice when he found out I had already been admitted academically (what an asshole to do that to an 18 yr old kid! But I digress...).

Anyway, the point of this post is that while none of Harvard's games are on TV (the team is better than when I was there but they have their own asshole coach these days), they have always been a good deal of fun to attend in person - even when the team was losing - because, being a private school, alcohol consumption wasn't regulated by a bunch of ninnies in the state government and the administrators tended to look the other way. ( We would even pass around a bottle in the stands on occasion! Try that at a UT or A&M game...) By far, the most fun was the annual Yale game ("The Game") because the parties and tailgates were so good. So good in fact, the it was common not to even go into the stadium for the game because the parties were still going on. Well, last year I heard Harvard put some clamps on the parties, including shutting them down at halftime. That wasn't disturbing, because it was always more fun to travel than to stay home, but now Yale is reciprocating just in time for this year's game and the days of the super duper Kegs-and-Eggs-in-a-rented-Ryder-Truck appear to be over. Very disappointing.

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Posted by  Dr Fro, at 3:29 PM, October 28, 2005  

I think that Larry Summers is Larry Summers' biggest fan.

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