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12-14-2005, 02:54 PM
SI gives its greatest football pranks of all time this week - good stuff, here's No. 1 - and the picture in the mag. gives proof it happened.
Harvard vs. Yale -- at Harvard
Several years ago, two Yalies somehow got tickets on the Harvard side and - dressed in Harvard school colors - began handing out colored pieces of cardboard - some white and some red - to the Harvard crowd. They handed the boards out to the fans with the statement - "when we give the signal - hold up your color board, and the entire section will read GO HARVARD." The fans cheerily went along with the idea.
At the signal, the entire section held up their white or red colored cards - and the section spelled out....
WE SUCK
Funniest prank I've ever heard of in my life. Another Yale student captured it on film from the other side.
Harvard vs. Yale -- at Harvard
Several years ago, two Yalies somehow got tickets on the Harvard side and - dressed in Harvard school colors - began handing out colored pieces of cardboard - some white and some red - to the Harvard crowd. They handed the boards out to the fans with the statement - "when we give the signal - hold up your color board, and the entire section will read GO HARVARD." The fans cheerily went along with the idea.
At the signal, the entire section held up their white or red colored cards - and the section spelled out....
WE SUCK
Funniest prank I've ever heard of in my life. Another Yale student captured it on film from the other side.