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    The 99th Percentile Bowl: 2009's Harvard-Yale Game, A Compiled Air-to-Ground Report

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    Image of econdave econdave
    11/23/09

    In reply to The 99th Percentile Bowl: 2009's Harvard-Yale Game, A Compiled Air-to-Ground Report
    Here's the dirty little secret: there's nothing particularly glamorous about being an Ivy League grad. (I didn't go to Harvard or Yale, but have 2 Ivy degrees, with lots of relatives/friends/co-workers who are Ivy grads.) If you look at us (not just me, but my cohort, in our 40s), you'd probably call us successful.

    But we're not Kennedys or Bushes. We tend to make decent money, but we're still dealing with mortgages, trying to avoid getting fat, filling out paperwork all day, figuring out who's going to drive the kids to soccer practice, wondering if we're going to end up divorced, trying to keep our values and our sanity intact.

    I want to my alma mater's game Saturday. Game sucked, but beautiful weather, and a nice way to spend some time with my kids. It's nice to reminisce; I had a good college experience.

    But Sunday when I did the grocery shopping, no one at the store cared where I went to college. Today I'm back at work, which is alternately boring and interesting, just like always. It's not any different from my friends and neighbors who went to State U, Adequate Catholic University with Famous Athletic Program, or Liberal Arts College You've Never Heard Of.

    This isn't meant to be a whine; I recognize that I've got a pretty good life, particularly on the monetary side. But if going to an Ivy League school was as wonderful as Kamer makes it seem, why are so many of us wasting time commenting on Gawker?
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    Image of smithhimself smithhimself
    11/22/09

    In reply to The 99th Percentile Bowl: 2009's Harvard-Yale Game, A Compiled Air-to-Ground Report
    Smithhimself was at The Game on the Yale side. A cheerful day with the usual drinking that continued at the Elizabethan Club. Compared to watching Nebraska or Florida play football, the Ivy League is really... well, it's high school level sports activity. But the sky was blue, my shirt was blue and, yes, a good time was had by all.

    I would say that one aspect of the contest is not false. I truly do believe that Harvard is a vile institution.
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    Image of Phyllis Nefler Phyllis Nefler
    11/22/09

    @smithhimself: The Lizzie! Fancy.
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    Image of milominderbinder milominderbinder
    11/22/09

    In reply to The 99th Percentile Bowl: 2009's Harvard-Yale Game, A Compiled Air-to-Ground Report
    Oh yeah fancy degree people??!! We have something better... Tim Tebow! Suck on that.
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    Image of AndIAmTellingYou AndIAmTellingYou
    11/23/09

    @milominderbinder: Yes, please!
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    Image of missdelite missdelite
    11/22/09

    In reply to The 99th Percentile Bowl: 2009's Harvard-Yale Game, A Compiled Air-to-Ground Report
    I just want to see the front of that guy's bodysuit.
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    Image of Atilla the Bun Atilla the Bun
    11/22/09

    @missdelite: I think there is a reason everyone around him appears to be looking at each other very much in the eye.

    A spandex onesie at a tailgate party? My god man, why?!
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    Image of TheBusinessGuy TheBusinessGuy
    11/21/09

    In reply to The 99th Percentile Bowl: 2009's Harvard-Yale Game, A Compiled Air-to-Ground Report
     
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    Image of TheRtHonPM TheRtHonPM
    11/21/09

    In reply to The 99th Percentile Bowl: 2009's Harvard-Yale Game, A Compiled Air-to-Ground Report
    But on the plus side, isn't this the same game where a few years ago, a bunch of Yale yahoos tricked the Harvard crowd into doing a card stunt that read "WE SUCK"?
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    11/21/09


    @TheRtHonPM:

    #tips
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    Image of iplaudius iplaudius
    11/21/09

    In reply to The 99th Percentile Bowl: 2009's Harvard-Yale Game, A Compiled Air-to-Ground Report
    The game is stupid; however, visiting spectators are pretty much guaranteed to be drunk and laid by the end of the day, so.
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    Image of James Oliver James Oliver
    11/21/09

    In reply to The 99th Percentile Bowl: 2009's Harvard-Yale Game, A Compiled Air-to-Ground Report
    This is JamesOliverInLA. You thought I was a freshman at the game who couldn't drink...Sorry guys, I'm actually an alum who was sober because I'm in LA, and it was about 10am...in a room full of old people.
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    Image of MissNormaDesmond MissNormaDesmond
    11/21/09

    @James Oliver: :(
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    Image of Foster Kamer Foster Kamer
    11/21/09

    @James Oliver: EVEN WORSE!
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    Image of TheOtherJen TheOtherJen
    11/21/09

    In reply to The 99th Percentile Bowl: 2009's Harvard-Yale Game, A Compiled Air-to-Ground Report
    OLE!!!! miss. COME ON!
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    Image of Foster Kamer Foster Kamer
    11/21/09

    @TheOtherJen: Oh, who gives a shit, they're all fucking crazy anyway. Also, I'm more a UGA guy myself.
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    Image of TheOtherJen TheOtherJen
    11/21/09

    @Foster Kamer: Yes they're crazy but ya gotta spell it right! If not they'll send their "boys" after you.

    And UGA blows, sorry.

    #tips
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    Image of Eh-ron Eh-ron
    11/21/09

    @Foster Kamer: RIP UGA VII.
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    Image of Foster Kamer Foster Kamer
    11/21/09

    @Eh-ron: Word.
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    Image of pssshwhatever pssshwhatever
    11/21/09

    @Foster Kamer: You know, you've been my favorite Gawker writer for a while at this point, and now I love you even more. GO DAWGS! I was out tailgating in Athens in honor of Uga VII today.
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    11/21/09

    @Eh-ron: He was a Damn Good Dawg.
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    Image of tigolbitties tigolbitties
    11/22/09

    @TheOtherJen: true, they will send those boys after you... ole miss is the vilest place to tailgate. and i would imagine the vilest school ever...

    @Foster Kamer: i did pour one out for uga vii, and also for my beloved 'dores losing to UT, fuck you rocky top.
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    Image of OliversArmy OliversArmy
    11/21/09

    In reply to The 99th Percentile Bowl: 2009's Harvard-Yale Game, A Compiled Air-to-Ground Report
    Did either team ever have a quarterback named Sonny Sixkiller? No? I didn't think so.
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    Image of Michael Grasso Michael Grasso
    11/21/09

    In reply to The 99th Percentile Bowl: 2009's Harvard-Yale Game, A Compiled Air-to-Ground Report
    There's a special shame you experience 15 years after the fact when you realize you once participated in a chant of "SAFETY SCHOOOOOL."
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    Image of lrubemp lrubemp
    11/21/09

    In reply to The 99th Percentile Bowl: 2009's Harvard-Yale Game, A Compiled Air-to-Ground Report
    They should have a competition for how many billions of dollars their alumni have shot on Wall Street, with a tiebreaker for how many billions they've gotten from the government. Smart is as smart does.
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    Image of takeouteurotrash takeouteurotrash
    11/21/09

    In reply to The 99th Percentile Bowl: 2009's Harvard-Yale Game, A Compiled Air-to-Ground Report
    As always, tremendous work, Foster.
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    Image of MissNormaDesmond MissNormaDesmond
    11/21/09

    In reply to The 99th Percentile Bowl: 2009's Harvard-Yale Game, A Compiled Air-to-Ground Report
    And on that fabled 1968 team...

    I love TLJ. I still hate Harvard, though.
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    Image of CJRWickedWitch CJRWickedWitch
    11/21/09

    @MissNormaDesmond: Clearly I missed out on THAT football player. My class was full of wussies and hockey players. ZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.....
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    Image of Astigmatism Astigmatism
    11/21/09

    In reply to The 99th Percentile Bowl: 2009's Harvard-Yale Game, A Compiled Air-to-Ground Report
    I never understood the level of pride these schools have in their shitty football. Especially when you can go to Stanford, where the Heisman candidate trying to lead the school to the Rose Bowl is a Management Science and Engineering major who plans on getting a JD/MBA. Everyone at The Game deserves a good noogie.
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