I'm fairly certain there has never been a dumber play-call in the history of college football than what the Yale faithful witnessed yesterday. Fourth and TWENTY TWO, up 10-7 on their own 25 with 2 minutes and change left, Yale fake punted and came up 7 yards short, thereby turning the ball over to harvard on downs to set up the winning TD. Oh and did I mention that Yale has a punter named Tom Mante who may actually have an NFL career ahead of him? Oh and did I also mention that if there were no defense on the field, I would still put the odds of the Yale offense gaining 22+ yards at 1:1?
Besides the players who basically had the entire season ruined by an unthinkably awful play-call, there were 52,000 people there! -- a colossal missed opportunity to make Yale football a little more relevant.
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Ever since Eric Johnson's "Catch" in 2001 delivered by the Mighty Joe Walland straight off the hospital gurney, Yale football has been cursed.
I thought we had hit bottom at the Game last year.
I was wrong.
'The Call' made it seem as if Williams was mocking us for caring. And sure enough, the YDN blog had a few 'lighten up, the Game is all about getting drunk and not watching the game' posts from undergrad hippies.
But clearly the Game is about getting drunk and *watching* the game.
Yale football, like Notre Dame, is just irrelevant. It's a waste of time to go into the bowl at all - better to get drunk with the geeky undergrads.
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