Preposterously Entertaining

Now that's the kind of wording the folks who write ad copy for Broadway and the movies would kill for. It's straight out of the New York Times review for the new documentary "Harvard Beats Yale 29-29."

A Wall Street Journal story yesterday about the film started this way:

There were only 40,280 in the stands that day to witness one of college football's enduring classics, but that number has grown as the years have gone by.

"I swear," says former Yale quarterback Brian Dowling, "the number of people who have since told me they were there seems like a quarter of a million. We must have set an all-time record for attendance."

This is indeed a great time to be a fan of Ivy League football history with the new movie joining the thoroughly entertaining 8: Ivy League Football and America.

I haven't "reviewed" that movie yet because, frankly, I'm a little worn out between a long football season and a very, very busy fall of freelancing (a good thing, by the way). I'll get around to it, promise.

In the meantime, here are upcoming airings of 8: Ivy League Football and America, that I stumbled across on the RUWT Sports? (Are You Watching Things?) site:

• NESNHD Nov 23 5 PM
• NESN Nov 23 5 PM
• NESN Nov 25 2 PM
• NESNHD Nov 25 2 PM
• NESNHD Nov 27 4 PM
• NESN Nov 27 4 PM