Despite Boston’s attempt to rain on everyone’s parade with their draconian alcohol laws, the Harvard-Yale tailgate went off without a hitch.

As everyone knows, the best way to gauge the “success” of any collegiate shindig is by reviewing the number of alcohol-related hospitalizations, and this year, there were nine in total, which is admittedly down from 2004’s staggering 30.

The Yale Daily News reports:

But despite regulations this weekend that, on paper, were stricter than ever before, students said it was easier to obtain alcohol at Saturday’s tailgate — or at least smuggle it in — than it was two years ago. In other words, stricter rules did not translate to stricter enforcement.

This makes perfect sense, because just yesterday, several Harvard students boasted about “sticking it to the man” and smuggling liquor into the event – 1920’s Prohibition-style.

Still, the biggest controversy to come from the Game wasn’t its alcohol problem; it was Yale’s halftime prop: a faux piece of the Berlin Wall that led to the suspension of the Yale Precision Marching Band.

“The director of Yale Bands, Thomas Duffy, suspended the Yale Precision Marching Band on Monday over a prop used during the Yale-Harvard Game halftime show that he described as "completely inappropriate and highly offensive."

The prop, a graffiti-covered replica of the Berlin Wall, was the centerpiece of a halftime show that portrayed Harvard as a Communist empire that. The wall, which had profanity written on it, contained elements that Duffy said he had not approved.

There you have it: Communism and drunken debauchery.

Well, I’d say the 125th anniversary of the Game is one that won’t soon be forgotten.