Who will take home the Brunelli Cup?

The entire season has been leading up to this glorious moment...

The fans are rabid with anticipation, the players in deep, intense meditation...

Yes, it is time for...

HUP Bowl III.

The HUP Bowl is an annual tradition which takes place each Super Bowl Sunday. It's a no-holds-barred, bone-crunching game of tackle (yes, tackle) football amongst the Hospital of University of Pennsylvania (HUP) Internal Medicine residents.

HUP Bowl I took place after a big snowfall, which helped cushion our falls. HUP Bowl II, due toa large thunderstorm the night before, was a gigantic mudfest, which helped prevent achieving any type of forward momentum. Today's weather looks pretty nice, so let's cross our fingers and hope that there are no career-ending injuries today...

The most valuable player of the HUP Bowl each year wins the coveted (and at this point, highly theoretical) Brunelli Cup, named after famed Nephrology fellow and ruffian Steve Brunelli. The winner of the Brunelli Cup for the past 2 years has been, fittingly, Steve Brunelli.

Kickoff begins at 2:05pm.