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Mike Francesa on Climate Change Protests during Yale / Harvard

WFAN Daily

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Sports

3.8795 Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2019

⏱️ 5 minutes

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0:00.0

Harvard Yale, which people come from all over to go to Harvard Yale, ex-players, alum.

0:07.9

Harvard Yale, for those that live in that world, okay, is a big deal.

0:14.2

It's a tradition.

0:15.2

It's a time-honored tradition.

0:17.1

Played on a football field with what's right about sport.

0:23.1

Okay, these guys are not, for the most part.

0:27.2

There's a rare exception, Calvin Hill, et cetera, that go to the pros.

0:31.0

But for the most part, these guys, they're going to go on to be what they are,

0:34.3

captain the industries or whatever, doctors and lawyers, etc. But why anybody thinks it's all right that you can ruin it for them to protest what you

0:42.6

want to protest?

0:43.4

In this case, protest the fact that Yale and Harvard, which have these enormous endowments,

0:50.2

there have been groups that have been for years trying to get Yale and Harvard, to no avail to not put any of their investments into the fossil fuel industry.

1:03.3

These are people who are backing global climate issues with the world.

1:08.7

Listen, there is a time and a place for everything.

1:12.0

But why do these people think it's all right to ruin that event?

1:17.5

For the players who have waited their whole careers to play a Yale Harvard game,

1:25.8

a game that had a say in the Ivy title in a building that doesn't have lights.

1:31.7

So you delayed the game where the game, which was finally won by Yale 50 to 43 and double overtime, is played in darkness.

1:39.5

Virtual darkness because they don't have any lights in the Yale Bowl.

1:42.2

They delayed the game for over an hour.

1:43.9

Over 42 people are arrested. Why does anybody there who did this think this is okay?

1:50.5

So let me get this straight. I have a cause. So the hell with you. That's the bottom line.

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