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'Twas the Night Before Christmas: Rutgers teams up with other colleges for unique twist on poem

But a miniature sleigh and eight tiny reindeer.
With a little old driver so lively and quick #GoRU [?][?][?] pic.twitter.com/rgYQfjle8N -- Rutgers Athletics (@RUAthletics) December 25, 2017

Most of the time college athletics is about competition.

But, in the holiday spirit, it turned to cooperation.

College athletic departments around the country came together on Christmas to tell the holiday classic poem A Visit from St. Nicholas -- more commonly known as Twas the Night Before Christmas -- verse by verse through short Tweets.

Rutgers hopped in midway through, after Michigan started the poem with a snowy photo of its football stadium and the words "Twas the night before Christmas.