Tag Archives: football

Super Bowls and Plates

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Whatever your reason for watching Sunday’s Super Bowl LVIII—you love checking out the multimillion-dollar advertising; you’ve invested big bucks thanks to legalized online sports gambling; you’re a Taylor Swift-Travis Kelce ’shipper; or, you know, you enjoy watching football—you’re going to …

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Local Rooting

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As the Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs prepare to battle for Super Bowl rings this Sunday, you might think New Haven doesn’t have a team to root for.

Let’s game it out. …

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Camp Ground

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It’s hard to imagine the game of football without yard lines and fourth downs and organized teams of 11. But before New Havener Walter Camp, the sport was missing all of those elements and more. …

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Super Fandom

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As this year’s Super Bowl approaches, I have a confession to make: Growing up, I was a Dallas Cowboys fan.

In Connecticut! …

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Super Bowl

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Before what was then the world’s largest stadium could open with the big Yale-Harvard game of 1914, it had to be built. …

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Camp Ground

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It’s hard to imagine the game of football without yard lines and fourth downs and organized teams of 11. But before New Haven’s Walter Camp, the sport was missing all of those elements and more. …

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Super Bowl

Yale Bowl

Ahead of Yale Football’s 2015 home opener tomorrow, we’re revisiting the story behind the home, which we first told last fall.

Yale’s white helmets crashed hard into Lehigh’s gold…

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This Week in New Haven (September 21 – 27)

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It’s a worldly week in New Haven, with international footage showing daring acts and underdog politics, an exhibit honoring…

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Super Bowl

Yale Bowl 2014

Yale’s white helmets crashed hard into Lehigh’s gold as the Bulldogs—trailing for most of the game, then gaining, losing and regaining the lead in the second half—grounded a feisty Mountain Hawks team 54-43. Another battle between white…

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