<p>“I just read a funny thing at the Yale Daily News about Handsome Dan… and one of the bulldogs actually was trained to play “dead” when asked if they’d rather go to Harvard or die?”</p>
<p>Check out the article and the video [Yale</a> Daily News - Media - The first live college mascot in the country, Handsome Dan has represented Yale since 1889.](<a href=“http://www.yaledailynews.com/media/2009/10/28/trumbull-masters-tea-handsome-dan/]Yale”>http://www.yaledailynews.com/media/2009/10/28/trumbull-masters-tea-handsome-dan/)</p>
<p>Ok, I’ve never been to any football game (really!), but the sheer earnest straightforward weirdness of it, plus the cheerfully bizarre Yale Football Medley that I heard for the first time at Parents’ Weekend, as sung by the Whym n Rhythm and Whiffenpoofs makes me think I should make a point of going to a game, sometime.</p>