Ruining the Harvard-Yale football game is no way to fix climate change

Activists decided it would be a good idea to delay one of the most notable NCAA Football Championship Subdivision football games of the year to make a political statement.

The Yale Bulldogs hosted the Harvard Crimson on Saturday and beat them 50-43 in double overtime, but that's not why the game made headlines. At halftime, left-wing activists took the field and refused to leave when the second half was supposed to start.

The protesters demanded that the two schools divest from their fossil fuel investments and cancel their holdings of Puerto Rico's debt. At its peak, the protest featured about 500 students on the field. It resulted in 42 arrests.

Although the protest earned praise from liberals such as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and actress Alyssa Milano, it was the kind of display that has no place at a sporting event. Plus, it is yet another example of how radical environmentalists are preventing rational discussions from occurring on climate change.

For both Harvard and Yale, this is the biggest sporting event of the year. It's a rivalry that dates back to 1875 and has featured 136 games. For well over a century, the long-standing tradition has been a way for people to take their minds off everything going on in the world around them for a few hours, including politics, to enjoy their lives, and watch something that brings them happiness. This should have been the case for the thousands of people attending the game in New Haven and for those watching the game at home on ESPNU.