Review, Harvard Beats Yale 29-29:

To those of you who haven't seen it, do so at your earliest convenience.

This trip takes is back to 1968 when Ivy League Football still held national significance. It tells about a little known (at least not to non-Ivy alumni) match-up between Harvard and Yale while both undefeated.

The Eli's were the hands-down favorite going into the game and looked to shock no-one until a complete collapse in the final 4 minutes of the final quarter lead to one of the greatest comebacks in sports history.

The film is a series of interviews of all players involved. They are all essentially "nobodys" as far as sports documentaries go. After football most obviously went the way of most Ivy League grads: law, business, Wall Street.

The background of the times and the stories of the players add to the fascinating story. 1968 wasn't the greatest of years in US History. It saw the assassinations of MLK and RFK, the siege of Chicago during the Democratic Convention, the Tet Offensive, all events which helped tear our country in two. It is great how the players explained that they were all different, held different political beliefs, but all came together as a team, as well as how all the left-wingers and Wall Street Types in the stands would come together each Saturday when football took over. One of Harvard's players had even just returned from a tour in Vietnam and was involved in the siege of Que Sanh.

Several of the players discuss their relationships with George Bush and Tommy Lee Jones (who played for Harvard) tells an anecdote of living with Al Gore that is priceless. My favorite though is the Yale Linebacker who is obviously a sucessful businessman, but is amazing to watch as he coldly and ruthlessly describes how he was trying to take the Harvard playmakers out of the game with ankle and knee blows, as if he was describing how he creates a spreadsheet.

So, Netflix, Blockbuster, whatever...just do it.

I won't go into too much detail, because I want you all to see it.