Maxim Says We’re Socially Retarded

In the end, we creamed them 35-3. But is it really victory when Maxim calls you “socially retarded”? That was the number-one men’s “lifestyle” magazine’s verdict on the Crimson’s performance in last semester’s Harvard-Yale Game, where several dozen Yalies skipped out on the tailgates to organize what Maxim called a “bad-ass prank” in its February issue.

The “prank”? While we “legacy brats” and “socially retarded eggheads” celebrated an undefeated season with good company and heavy drinking, the oh-so-bad-ass Yalies handed out signs that spelled “Harvard Sucks” to fans sitting on the Crimson’s side of the stadium. When the signs were raised, the pranksters caught the moment on a film which has won 141,000 hits on www.ifilm.com. Maxim ran a still-frame shot across two pages of its February issue.

Our shame? Maxim’s Jonathan Z. Wilde may have sided with the signs, but at least he also admitted the truth about the perpetually second-best Yale kids’ supposed feat.

“It’s a copy of an older one,” he wrote, referencing the similar joke Cal Tech played on the Washington Huskies in 1961.

Take that, Bulldogs.