What a day... Arsenal wins, Harvard beats Yale, Seinfeld Live and a visit to the Cheers Pub

Our day started off with our team Arsenal beating Tottenham 5-2 with Abedayor been sent off in the first half. Quite a rare thing these days to be a proud Gooner :)

Next we went to a Tailgate party organised by the HKS MC class at the Harvard Stadium. There was so much hype around "The Game" Harvard versus Yale - these tailgate parties start 2 hours before the game and then again after the game. Groups get together and drink beer, eat hamburgers, hotdogs, etc. The atmosphere is awesome. There is also friendly banter between the two rivals with 'Harvard sucks' t-shirts and plane banners. Two fighter jets flew over the stadium. Football is a strange game to get used to, it is similar to rugby except:
- it is more violent (not sure what exactly a foul is because it all looks so violent to me!)
- they have helmets and thick padding all over
- there are 4 quarters of 15 minutes each (with stop/start time)
- they have cheerleaders (after a touchdown they must do push-ups, whatever the score is)
- you can throw the ball forward (unlike rugby)
- there are so many players in the team, after every play (which last a minute or so) a new lot of players come on
- a touch down (like a rubgy try) gives you 6 points. There is a kick after a touch down (like in rugby) which gives you 3 points
- there are many referees (at least 6 each with a different letter on their back)
- at half time, each university gives a little performance and makes fun of the opposing team. The band will come on and play. Yale acted out a scene (with props) about the end of the world according to the Mayan calendar with an asteroid coming to hit the earth and the Harvard people were too lame to try and stop it, so the Yale people stopped it. Harvard had a whale (I guess Yale sounds like whale!) with a bulldog face (the bulldog is the mascot of Yale) and then all the Harvard people killed the whale. Both preformances were pretty lame.

The game was awesome, the final score was 34 - 24 to Harvard.

                                                Last 3 pics courtesy of our friend Winnie.

Then we went to the Wang Theater in Tremont Street in downtown Boston  to watch Seinfeld Live. He is still so funny. He made a few references to one of our favourite TV series Seinfeld. A great comedian.

Afterwards we went to dinner at the Cheers Pub, it had a replica of the bar used in the TV series.

All in all a great fun day!