See if you can match the ledes with their corresponding stories about parking at the Harvard-Yale Game 2009:

1. “Two years ago on the Saturday before Thanksgiving, I looked out my front window upon a line of cars as far as I could see. I live up the street from the Yale Bowl, and traffic bound for the Harvard game — or the parking-lot tailgates — had clotted the quiet Westville neighborhood.”

2. “Ryan Bamford and Wayne Dean stood at the top of Yale Bowl on the morning of Nov. 17, 2007 and stared.

Every direction the Yale University athletic administrators looked there were cars. Thousands of cars. Many were already parked, with patrons enjoying the tailgating that is as much a part of the Yale-Harvard tradition as the football.”

3. “Several years ago, Lisa Hodermarsky, who had recently moved to her new home three blocks from the Yale Bowl, made the mistake of going grocery shopping on the day of The Game. She went in the morning, thinking there wouldn’t be a problem getting to the grocery story — just a mile away — and back.

But after leaving the store at around 11 a.m. and spending an hour trying to drive the one mile back to her house , she and her husband have given up on driving after 9 a.m. on game day.”

a. New Haven Register, “‘The Game’ changer: Yale vs. Harvard parking woes spur new plan,” 11-15-09

b. 06520: The Yale Alumni Magazine Blog, “How to Get to the Game,” 11-16-09

c. Yale Daily News, “Parking Fees Imposed for the Game,” 11-17-09

Answers:

1b, 2a, 3c

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