PJ, I enjoyed these. During my high school years I was an usher at the Yale Bowl, on the visitors’ side, 40th yard line or so. The crowd was more hostile than on the Yale side, but the tips were better, especially in wet weather (for which I was prepared with a towel to wipe the seats). Those were the days of Brian Dowling as QB and Calvin Hill as FB.
I’m no longer a football fan, and even though I’m on the Penn faculty I feel no particular loyalty. Still, I enjoyed the pics! Rick > On Dec 22, 2017, at 5:12 AM, P. J. Alling <[email protected]> wrote: > > If you have to ask what game, well there's just no hope for you... > > OK, so it's the Yale Harvard football classic, the one that was killing and > maiming so many of America's best and brightest around of the turn of the > 20th Century, that President Theodore Roosevelt felt obliged to mediate, and > thus the modern sport of Football, (American, and it's Younger Canadian > brother), was born. > > So no one cares and the Ivy league hasn't been the cutting edge of Football > since sometime in the 1930's, but Yale and Harvard still take it seriously. > > For the rest of us it's a good excuse for a cookout in miserable cold fall > weather, often rainy or like this year threatening to rain anyway. > > The last few years have been disappointing for Yale fans but this year, Yale > handed the Harvard team their heads after bouncing them down the field a bit. > > I took almost 200 images but rather than bore everyone I've put together a > representative sample of what happened with great regularity and a couple of > shots of tailgaters having way too much fun, for probably the wrong reasons. > > https://pdml.updog.co/thegame2017/GESO%20--%20thegame.html > > Equipment: Pentax K-5II w/Kalamare 500mm MC Mirror f8.0 or SMC Pentax F > 70-210mm f4.0~5.6 > > As usual comments are welcome but may be totally ignored. > > -- > America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. > America was founded so we could all be anything we damn well please. > - P.J. O'Rourke > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
