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Deposits on Tickets Taken a Day Early<\/b><\/a> – The Post<\/i>
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D.C. baseball jumped the gun and started accepting deposits early. Hey, good for them.<\/p>\n

Expos set to take pair of big steps<\/b><\/a> – The Wash. Times<\/i>
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More about the ticketing and also news about the team being approved by MLB (conditionally, of course) and the Nationals uniform unveiling. The color scheme is red, white, and blue; and there are said to be two hats that have W’s. I would have preferred D.C., but in time that may change too. I will buy one either way.<\/p>\n
Stadium Back on Calendar For Vote<\/b><\/a> – The Post<\/i>
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Our hero, Jack Evans<\/strong> (D, Ward-2), basically says that the two weeks until the vote on November 30, is plenty of time for everything to get screwed up. However, I think it will pass, but this is more trouble than it should have been.<\/p>\n
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ONLY TWO DAYS UNTIL KICKOFF<\/h2>\n

Football culture, not record, keeps money rolling in<\/b><\/a> – The Collegian<\/i>
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I’ll bet a lot more money rolled in 2002 than it did last year or this year. Still, as long as their are people like me who go to every game, there will be money. The question is will it be enough? Football pays for every other sport up there.<\/p>\n

PSU tailgate policies not as strict as some<\/b><\/a> – The Collegian<\/i>
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It turns out that a lot of schools are not allowed the freedom we enjoy in tailgating. That is too bad for them, but their bad behavior earned those restrictions. Hopefully, Penn State fans will continue to maintain a generally good atmosphere.<\/p>\n
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THE GAME<\/h2>\n

Gentlemen, you are about to play Harvard in football. Never again in your whole life will you do anything so important.<\/p>\n

Tad Jones<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

My apologies in advance for not posting enough Yale football news this season. While posting this week will not make up for that oversight, please let it be recorded that I was up for The Game<\/b>, if only to remind everybody what “the game” really is and what it is not. <\/p>\n

Folks in a couple Midwestern swing states will tell you that the Ohio State\/Michigan contest is “the game.” They are of course mistaken; the scarlet and gray contingent suffers from overwhelming myopia and denial (they also sold their collective soul to the devil<\/b><\/a> for that national championship), while the maize and blue are beyond sanctimonious. The historical significance of what transpires in Columbus or Ann Arbor stays on the football field, while what happens in November in New Haven or Cambridge goes far beyond the gridiron (politics, industry, The Simpsons), though football legacy is still very strong. Modern football was invented by a Yalie, the immortal Walter Camp<\/b>.<\/p>\n

I have been privileged to witness three editions of The Game, all in New Haven. Sadly, Yale is only 1 – 2 in those contests, but they were all hard fought by both sides. The ’87 tilt, which I attended, took place during an Artic cold spell, with wind chills around
-30 F. Thankfully, subsequent contests have been considerably warmer. My last trip was 2001<\/b><\/a>. During the halftime show, the Yale Precision Marching Band actually burned a Harvard flag<\/b> during their skit. Now that is a rivalry! <\/p>\n

Naturally, I missed the classic 1968 game<\/b><\/a> (the climax of Ivy League football), but my father made it and has passed the lore down to me. <\/p>\n

This year, in Cambridge, Yale has an opportunity to ruin Harvard’s bid for a perfect season, as well finish with a winning record.<\/p>\n

The Game will be televised nationally<\/b><\/a> on superstation WGN<\/b>. Brian Dowling<\/b> ’69 will be one of the color commentators. Also see the-game.org<\/b><\/a>, which is a pretty good site, despite the authorship by a bunch of Cantabs.<\/p>\n

Harvard will fight til the end, but Yale will win!<\/i>
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