This past weekend two Ivy League schools faced off in the 132nd edition of the Game. Harvard students and alumni traveled down to the Yale campus in New Haven, Connecticut to play their historical rival in a game of collegiate football.
You may think that the Game, rooted in tradition, camaraderie and deep-seated rivalry between the two schools, is more than just an opportunity for pretentious smart kids to drink and have fun for 48 hours straight. Nope, that’s pretty much it. But for those of us that don’t go to Harvard or Yale, here’s basically what the Game is like:
1. The Game always falls on the last full week of school before Thanksgiving break so everyone's super busy with midterms.
2. Yet thoughts of the upcoming Game are on everyone's mind
3. Friday night comes around and everyone's ready to PARTAY
4. AND THE PARTAYS ARE LIT
5. Everyone stays up all night and feels like poop the next morning
6. The best part of the Game is the next morning. Despite sleepless nights for all, everyone gets up bright and early for brunch (and more alcohol) in the dining halls
7. On Game Day, everyone gets swagged up in their school colors
8. Then everyone heads to the tailgate and turns up some more
9. Some jeering, pranking, and chanting
10. And of course there's the actual Game
11. Saybrook, one of the colleges at Yale, performs their traditional Saybrook strip (and it's cold in New England)
11. And Yale has lost for 9 years straight but we know we're more fun and more beautiful anyway
Even Harvard knows
