Forty years ago in 1968, an unidentified Yale student purchased eight tickets to the Game, the annual football grudge match against Harvard, for a paltry $48 and sold them for $1,000 to desperate alumni in New York, who were unable to secure tickets after they had sold out.

This week, a similar sequence of events transpired at Yale.

First, the Yale Daily News announced yesterday that this year’s edition of the Game was sold out, and that tickets were already going for exorbitant prices on Craigslist and eBay – although, not reaching the lofty $1,000 mark yet.

Then, an unidentified thief ransacked the Walgreens on York Street and escaped with $1,000 worth of Tylenol.

What a person could possibly want with that much Tylenol is unclear, but that’s not the important part.

No, the devil is in the details, and the important point to take away is that he stole $1,000 worth of merchandise, which is the exact sum paid for the Game tickets back in 1968.

Coincidence? I think not.