What is your favorite sports rivalry?

Yanks and Sox are going at it,the Cards and Cubs hate each other. Red Wings vs. Avalanche are brawls. Sure makes the games more interesting.

While the Turnpike Rivalry is traditional, the Ravens/Steelers rivalry seems more relevant the last couple seasons.

My wife is a huge Browns fan, and I've been a Steelers fan all my life. Two weekends a year, we have to separate ourselves for a bit.

Of course, the day after our wedding, the Browns took their only victory in the series over the past few years, in front of me & all her Browns-loving friends. That was a blast... :(

Here We Go Steelers! Here We Go!

God, how many chances can one guy get?

I used to be a big Cowher fan, but enough is enough. This guy is simply not going to take this team to a Super Bowl victory, period.

I just can't believe he was not fired after last year. In 2002, the team had one glaring weakness...its secondary (otherwise, they would have easily won it all that year).

So what does Cowher do to fix that problem in 2003? Absolutely positively nothing. He doesn't fire the defensive coordinator, he doesn't fire the secondary coach, he doesn't even release Dewayne Washington. And what happens throughout the 2003 season?? The secondary gets lit up every game. Quarterbacks have career games against the Steelers.

I'm sorry, if that doesn't get you fired, what does?

in all of sports is Red Sox/Yankees

But I might be a little biased growing up in the heart of Packerland.
Go Pack!!

My initial reaction was Packers/Bears, but then I thought Packers/Vikings. Somehow to me there seems to be more "fun" with Packers/Bears.

it's not as much "a spirited competition" like it kinda is with the Bears. It's more "I hate these guys" rivalry with the Queens.

A Packers fan and a Bears fan can be in a bar going at it for hours, but as soon as a Vikings fan walks in the door, they'll team up against the Vikings fan. Still, at the end of the day, the only games that matter to Bears and Packers fans are the ones against each other.

(sung to the tune of "The Old Grey Mare")
OOOOOOOO!
We don't give a damn for the whole state of Michigan
the whole state of Michigan
the whole state of Michigan
We don't give a damn for the whole state of Michigan
we're from ohio
we're from ohio O-H
we're from ohio I-OOOOO
We don't give a damn for the whole state of Michigan
the whole state of Michigan
the whole state of Michigan
We don't give a damn for the whole state of Michigan
we're from ohio

:evilgrin: No offense to michigan DUers, unless you're from Ann Arbor, and then you suck:)

:hippie: The Incorrigible Democrat

Jennifer Granholm.....................Bob Taft
Carl Levin............................Mike DeWine
Debbie Stabenow.......................George Voinovich
Gore carried Michigan.................Bush carried Ohio

I just hate the wolverines; I didn't vote for taft, or dewine, or voinovich, or bush, so hoop de damn do

:hippie: The Incorrigible Democrat

Dennis Kucinich
John Glenn
Howard Metzenbaum



Beat that :evilgrin:

:scared:

We sent his ass up the river:evilgrin:

"Beam me up." That guy was a one man circus

:headbang:

was a song written for what might be the greatest football rivalry of all time...

ARMY-NAVY!

Old Gray Mare is what the Middies sing when Army has to punt...

The official Navy Song was originally a football song:


Stand Navy down the field, sails set to the sky.
We'll never change our course, so Army you steer shy-y-y-y.
Roll up the score, Navy, Anchors Aweigh.
Sail Navy down the field and sink the Army, sink the Army Grey.


Get underway, Navy, Decks cleared for the fray,
We'll hoist true Navy Blue So Army down your Grey-y-y-y.
Full speed ahead, Navy; Army heave to,
Furl Black and Grey and Gold and hoist the Navy, hoist the Navy Blue


Blue of the Seven Seas; Gold of God's great sun
Let these our colors be Till all of time be done-n-n-ne,
By Severn shore we learn Navy's stern call:
Faith, courage, service true With honor over, honor over all.

And then they went out and fucked it up.

Had the 'U.S. Navy Hymn Book'...

And it included "Anchor's Away" with ALL of the verses (there's like 40), "The Old Gray Mare", and others.

Someone once noted that of all the Service Acadamies, only the Navy named it's enemy in it's official song...

there was always one fall day at my house that you didn't want to go near my parents!!! Especially if OSU lost...

;)

Don't know how they did it but they did!

As I said...it was just that one day that was always iffy...

Doesn't matter where these teams are in the Pac-10 standings, it's always a barn-burner.

Go Bruins!

I love it!

:D

:bounce:

Best team in baseball this year w00t mother fucker.

GO CARDS!!

:P

Having lived the majority of my life on the Kentucky / Indiana border, I am intimately familiar with this rivalry and celebrate it every season. I lived in northern Indiana for five years and became acquainted with a more complex system of rivalries involving IU, U of Mich, Mich State, Purdue, Notre Dame, etc., but people there still took the UK / IU basketball matchup very seriously.

being a Purdue student, this is where it is at

Have a stepbrother who is a total Fudgepacker fan (his dad grew up in 'Sconny), and I'm a thorough Vikes fan!

Most awesome brother v. brother rivalry!

Rules!!!!!

HOOK'EM HORNS

College Football doesn't get any better than this. Every October the Cotton Bowl is split down the middle, 1/2 Burnt Orange and 1/2 red. The hate that each side has for the other simply cannot be explained to an outsider. Fans stand up screaming the whole game. The Texas State Fair is the setting. Both teams enter the field from the same "Tunnel"at the same time leading to many an engagement before the game even begins. The Texas cannon, Ole Smokey, fires continously after a Texas win. There is no game that is more important to win. Players cry after losses. 37,500 Longhorn fans screaming "Ou Sucks" while the Ou school song is played. The state Fair corn dogs are pretty good too.

HOOK 'EM HORNS!!!!!
OU SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!

I mean, it's been so long since that happened. :-)

Just needling ya. I experienced the pain (and your joy) of Gibbs and Blake. I still don't understand why Brown didn't play Applewhite sooner in '01. He had OU's number. Sims never could get it together.

OU SUCKS!!!!

The eyes of Texas are upon you! GO HORNS!

We're gonna get'em this year!

Damn we love beating those sorry shorthorns

GO SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONERS

I didn't know Texas even played OHIO UNIVERSITY!

Go Packers!!! Crush em again this year!!!!!! :hi:

What else am I going to go with? After all, my wife and I are the Juliet and Romeo from different sides of the tracks separating these two teams.

The greatest sports rivalry. And still, I'd rather go see a baseball game between anybody at all.

Oops. Perhaps too much honesty there.

:)

Grrrrr. ;) :hi:

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:)

It makes for a fun game, anyway.

Raiders/Chiefs
49ers/Cowboys

Go Raiders...Go niners!!!

Go pokes!

Sorry, but it's true :-P

GO BUCKS!!!!!!

;-)

Maybe the best sports rivalry is the rivalry of which rivalry is the best? :-)

The Michigan - OSU rivalry is certainly something to behold. I have two good friends, one of whom is a Michigan alumn, the other an OSU alumn. For about two weeks every year, the week before and the week after the game, they hate each other. They go to the game together, and I have no idea how they avoid killing each other. I went along once and served as a buffer.

One year, I got them both to attend an OU - Texas game with me so they could watch me act like an idiot while they tried to feign detached, calm reason. The biggest difference, according to them, was the split stadium and the association with the Texas State Fair.

you don't know rivalry until you've flung yourself into mirror lake in late october the friday before the michigan game; if i didnt live 5 minutes sprint away from it, i would have died; but, there were plenty of ways to dull the pain ;)


:hippie: The Incorrigible Democrat

Biggest sports event of the year in Florida.

j/k

I understand many Ohioans set out for Miami in Ohio thinking that there's a South Beach.

:grr:

see my post below.

I do agree, it is just the event of the Fall in Florida! I had the most fun while at graduate attending those games.

I just loved the game in 1996 where the Noles beat UF and then tore down the goal post!

These two teams typically hate each other. I know they don't have the history of a Yankees/Bo Sox, or Packers/Bears, but it is a great rivalry. This rivalry flies under the radar because the teams year in year out, aren't terribly good, but they battle each other hard. I think that is why it is such a good rivalry, because the teams are similar in my ways, including fairly tough histories...Kevin.

GO VIKINGS

and they race like that.

ROOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL TIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIDE!!!!

Warrrrrrr Eagle!!

Just had to even things out - it has been a tough couple of years for both our teams!

Hail to the victors. Michigan = Big 10 champs this year, again.

:thumbsup:

:hi:

those motherfuckers, hail to those big cocksuckers
hail! hail!
to M*ch*g*n the cesspool of the land!
:evilgrin:

michigan=losers in CCHA; 4-2 loss to the bucks; empty net goal and we were down THREE PLAYERS


:hippie: The Incorrigible Democrat

"You can't win them all. In fact it's very likely you'll win less than 50%."

Wisdom of the Cubs. The Zen masters of baseball.

Go Liverpool...!!!

:evilgrin:

I'm more of a Bundsliga fan myself so VORWARTS!!!

I'm quite fond of the Sheffield Wednesday v Sheffield United rivalry, being a Wednesdayite myself!

The Celtic/Rangers rivalry is not just about being the best in Glasgow, it's also got a very sectarian element to it as well.

that's the whole bloody point of their existence, sadly.
Same goes for Hearts and Hibs, even Dundee and Dundee Utd.

Celtic & Rangers have done extremely well out of the problems in NI.

Ohio State/Michigan is the same here because of the war for Toledo, Ohio USA. No one has died though because of OSU/MU violence unlike Celtics(Catholic)/Rangers(Protestant).

;-)

GO CHELSEA!!!

:D

.

Iron Chef is as close as I get to understanding 'sports.' :)

beat l a beat l a beat l a

And fuck the Traiders. Any team that beats their ass is fine by me.

I love watching Minnesota kicking some Pecker ass! I hate them!

x

:)

A one way rivalry? Interesting. Packer fans could care less about just about anything outside of the Bears, with Detroit far and away ahead of Minnesota.

:)

:shrug:

I suppose you're saying it's all a Red Sox generated rivalry? I don't think so. Yankees fans respond to the Sox like no other team, whether they'll admit it or not.

The Yankees hate the Red Sox because the Red Sox always start things between the teams. Americans pull for the Red Sox because we hate fucking dynasties. That why the NFL is doing better than MLB because the whole league is competitive, not just a small handfull of teams.

The NFL is doing better because it has better marketing and it's a sport suited to television in the age of television. Baseball is a sport suited to live attendance, and, in fact, its attendance is as good, if not better, than it's ever been. Nevermind the reality that one really can't compare the two. What would the ratings for NFL games be if there was a slate of games on TV every day? Scarcity plays into the NFL's ratings, as well as the weekend only games.

The NFL is suited for blue collar fans(like me) because every team has a chance to make a run at the Lombardi Trophy. In MLB though has become very elitest only wanting fans that are upper middle class. MLB also has all of its star power conentrated in 3 or 4 teams, discouraging fans in smaller markets from supporting the local team because they don't have a chance win a championship or make the playoffs. The NFL likes blue collar fans that go to their games yelling, screaming and dressing up like World Cup soccer fans do. MLB teams though kick fans out of the stadium that heckle players, takes tickets away from season ticket holders because they're "too loud." MLB has become boring(except Red Sox/Yankees) because the games outcomes can be foretold before the game starts. Yet everygame and everyteam in the NFL is exciting because there aren't any dynasties that more or less have the seasons outcome in a lock; this makes everygame exciting because everygame is important.

It has the highest ticket prices. It spends the most money on propaganda to the masses. It gets the most tax subsidies with the least return to the community of any sport.

Meanwhile, Joe Blue Collar can still afford to go to a baseball game.

Nevermind that one must spend 3 1/2 to 4 hours to get 3 to 5 minutes of action in an NFL game, while one gets nearly constant action over 2 hours and 40 minutes at a baseball game.

Sorry, but your cliches don't match reality.

No sport should be seen as a $$$ oppurtunity that can be the economic base of the communitty. Who do you think pays for all of those goddamned new baseball stadiums that Bud Selig loves. In Cincinnat the Bengals are paying off Paul Brown Stadium yet the Reds can't make their payments on Great American Ballpark. If you like baseball better than football that's ok. I like football more than I do baseball and I have my reasons.

Baseball stadiums do make money for their communities, and they do help redevelop neighborhoods. This has been shown repeatedly. Football stadiums do neither.

You might want to look at the size of any payments being made in Cinicinnati before you use that, or any other comparison, as an example.

At any rate, don't try to fall back on the old "you like/I like" routine. You tried to play propagandist for football, and I called you on it, showing the reality of the NFL, as the epitome of propaganda in American sport. It's the GOP of pro-sports in America. Sorry, that's just reality.

I've got nothing against the game. I'm just tired of people falling for the propaganda and then choosing to bash baseball at will without reason.

Besides which sport does GWB like? Football or Baseball? Baseball. So you can take your "Holier than thou" baseball shit and shove it because I don't buy it. Football has good men in it and baseball has a bunch of goddamned cry babies that I can't stand. I've given you many reasons why football is better than baseball you just choose no to listen.

Now you can't take your own medicine when the facts show the reality of the situation to be very different than the propaganda you've swallowed?

So sorry.

Thanks for making me laugh, though.

:)

And I speak only from personal, local experience...

Alex Spanos (owner of the SD Chargers) is the biggest welfare fraud and Republican supporter in the state.

The owner of the SD Padres (whose name I've forgotten) is second.

OWNERS of pro teams are almost all Plutocratic scum who support Republicans.

Going into history...

Baseball is a sport with no time limit; and takes quite a bit of space and equipment. A sport of the idle classes, who can afford the gear and the time.

Football (originally, modern football is quite different) had strict time limits, and no equipment. A sport of the working class. Modern football, of course, while it has time limits violates them regularly, and requires mucho equipment, more than baseball.

So, Baseball started elitest and worked its way down; football started common and worked its way up.

Flame away.

Football quickly used equipment and plenty of it, nevermind that baseball equipment originated as handmade stuff from what was around. Your history of these two is quite skewed, as you argue that baseball was something akin to golf, when nothing could be further from the truth. It was, and remains, the ultimate working class sport, practiced on farms and outside of factories from day one. And, despite time limits, football games have always taken as long, if not longer, than baseball games historically. Of course, today, we see NFL games go longer each year, while MLB has worked hard to successfully shrink the average time of its games, and the difference in those times will soon be over an hour, with an NFL game lasting an hour longer than an MLB game.

I have many friends from Wisconsin, and we always look forward to the Vikes/Packers games the most.

Every Packer fan knows that the Bears games come first, with the Lions next now that Tampa Bay has moved out of the division. The Vikings are way down the list. Sorry Minnesota fans, you just don't have a natural rivalry.

I know it sucks, but let's not pretend.

:)

Twins-White Sox has grown over the last three years and is turning into a good brawl.

And, again, Packers-Bears. The Vikings are way down the list for the Packers.

:evilgrin:

Now being a Buffalo native, I have to say the Buffalo V. Miami.

Isn't too bad that poor Ricky no heart left for football took a one way ticket to Asia and out of football?

My second is FSU vs UF. This is just a awsome riviarly!

Though a close third is FSU vs. Miami. I just don't find the same intensity to this rivarly as to the UF one.

Maryland/Duke (NCAA Hoops), a great rivalry these days.

Skins/Cowboys, completely one sided for a while but perhaps alive again with the Return of the One True Coach. But maybe the Skins are just cursed until they shed their stupid offensive name.

:cry:

Though Ward v. Gotti was pretty hardcore.

Greatest sports feud ever. :)

the spouse graduated from UW...I didn't, so it's no better way to get his goat but to cheer for the opposing team every November...even when the kid was trying to talk, I told the spouse the kid can say coo-gah instead of husky...LOL

expression funny as hell.
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of the unbelievable rivalry I am about to bestow upon you:


The Arkansas Tech University Wonder Boys (voted the #2 worst mascot in the nation)
vs.
The University of Central Arkansas Bears (which 'bears' an unmistakable resemblance to the University Kentucky logo)


OOOhh.. when these guys come to town, looook out. This one time... a visiting UCA student dropped an empty soda can at the stadium and..... wait for it...... FAILED TO PICK IT UP.

That is only the beginning of the hijinks that insue during that one fateful week when these two teams battle for the "Governor's Cup"

Sportscaster ChoralScholar... signing off.

UCA Fans: Gooooo Bears! Wreck Tech!!!!
ATU Fans: Cheney You!!!

The Packers/Bears rivalry has been dead since the early 90's.

It's a classic.

At least in football.

Now it's North Dakota State/South Dakota State.

UND is a bunch of wimps.:eyes:

Go Wings! I know there's at least one more cup in you guys before Yzerman retires!

(Actually its Uconn Men vs Duke - but thats not an "official" rivalry - peeps in CT just fucking hate Duke is all - its a grudge)

in football. Minnesota usually sucks, but they always try like crazy against the Hawks for Floyd of Rosedale. This used to be a pretty good rivalry. In pro sports, Packers vs. Vikes, the Bears have lost something like 18 of the last 20 against my beloved Packers and Cubs-Cards in baseball. See, out here we don't beat each other up over these rivalries, we just argue a lot.

Well, it has been going 175 years; and it's not just rowing - it's just about every sport ever played in Britain (including some that aren't sports, like chess, and some that are just silly, like tiddliwinks).

Australian rules. They have had American football some years, but it looks as if they can't always get large enough teams together every year. Full list for last year - about 50 sports in all: http://www.sport.ox.ac.uk/sportsfed/varsity/varsity0304.shtml

And I'm on the blue side of that one.

Like the avatar. You a student there? Maybe I'll see you on campus...

Something about those NY teams that gets us Philly folks all riled up

:bounce:

enough said, imo!

It's not exactly nationally renown, but it gets my father and I foaming at the mouth.

Or more specifically, UNC vs Duke, or Duke vs State, or UNC vs state...

Denver Broncos v Kansas City Chiefs

Be there.
Denver.
Sunday Night.
September 12th.
ESPN.

Go Broncos!!!!!!!!!

Gators suck ass! :P

And why the hell am I the first one to post this? GIG 'EM!!!

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