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This is a rivalry?

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Past
Cubs-Cardinals

Present
Cubs-Cardinals

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OSU/Mich

there's not a game with more hate/emotion in it anywhere. this is as close as you will see to someone getting their head ripped off as there is, unless you watch a video of someone actually getting their head taken off. the fans hate each other. the stadiums packing 105-110k people.

The problem I have with the Yanks/Sox rivalry right now is the fact that there doesn't seem to be any bad blood between these teams. There's no fighting, no bad words, no bulletin material. I'll still watch, but is it the best rivalry right now? no.

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College rivalries will always be much stronger than professional rivalries.

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OSU/Mich

there's not a game with more hate/emotion in it anywhere. this is as close as you will see to someone getting their head ripped off as there is, unless you watch a video of someone actually getting their head taken off. the fans hate each other. the stadiums packing 105-110k people.

The problem I have with the Yanks/Sox rivalry right now is the fact that there doesn't seem to be any bad blood between these teams. There's no fighting, no bad words, no bulletin material. I'll still watch, but is it the best rivalry right now? no.

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College rivalries will always be much stronger than professional rivalries.

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Why?

i'm surprised your fav rivalry isn't PSU/MSU [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

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P.Dirty, you guys need to get a better basketball team, and we need to stop paying our players, so our rivalry extends beyond the gridiron. Too bad Sparty is, and has been, kicking our ass on the hardwood for the last decade... [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

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OSU/Mich

there's not a game with more hate/emotion in it anywhere. this is as close as you will see to someone getting their head ripped off as there is, unless you watch a video of someone actually getting their head taken off. the fans hate each other. the stadiums packing 105-110k people.

The problem I have with the Yanks/Sox rivalry right now is the fact that there doesn't seem to be any bad blood between these teams. There's no fighting, no bad words, no bulletin material. I'll still watch, but is it the best rivalry right now? no.

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College rivalries will always be much stronger than professional rivalries.

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Why?

i'm surprised your fav rivalry isn't PSU/MSU [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

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A couple of things. People are usually more attached to their college than they are to their cities sports teams. Most people voluntarily choose their college, whereas, they are usually born into a city and therefore, a pro sports team. Also, there is more of a team aspect in college than in the pros, where it's usually about the individual.

The PSU/MSU "rivalry" isn't really much of a "rivalry." Most PSU fans would much rather beat OSU or UM instead of MSU. We HATE Ohio State. Go figure.

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OSU/Mich

there's not a game with more hate/emotion in it anywhere. this is as close as you will see to someone getting their head ripped off as there is, unless you watch a video of someone actually getting their head taken off. the fans hate each other. the stadiums packing 105-110k people.

The problem I have with the Yanks/Sox rivalry right now is the fact that there doesn't seem to be any bad blood between these teams. There's no fighting, no bad words, no bulletin material. I'll still watch, but is it the best rivalry right now? no.

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College rivalries will always be much stronger than professional rivalries.

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Why?

i'm surprised your fav rivalry isn't PSU/MSU [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

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A couple of things. People are usually more attached to their college than they are to their cities sports teams. Most people voluntarily choose their college, whereas, they are usually born into a city and therefore, a pro sports team. Also, there is more of a team aspect in college than in the pros, where it's usually about the individual.

The PSU/MSU "rivalry" isn't really much of a "rivalry." Most PSU fans would much rather beat OSU or UM instead of MSU. We HATE Ohio State. Go figure.

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I went to school in Boston, but due to the lack of sports teams at school, I'm strongly attached to UM. I lived there since I was 1, and my brother and lots of friends went there. Now I live in NY, but I'm ready to go all out for the Maize and Blue this weekend.

Just to maybe prove your point a bit. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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The PSU/MSU "rivalry" isn't really much of a "rivalry." Most PSU fans would much rather beat OSU or UM instead of MSU. We HATE Ohio State. Go figure.

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I know it's not a real rivalry, it was the one bestowed on you guys 10 years ago when you came into the Big 10. Hence the [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] making fun of your fake rivalry. As for hating the Wolverines and Bucks, get your own team to hate [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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I know I know. I'm sorry for treading. It's not so much UM as it is OSU though. My freshman year at PSU, the kid who lived next door to me gave me one rule. Hate OSU. I just went with it.

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By far best UM-PSU game I've ever watched is 1996. PSU ranked #1, UM ranked #4, crisp October game IN Happy Valley (I believe). Lavar Arrington, Curtis Enis, and Courtney Brown on one side, Charles Woodson, Brian Griese, and the A-Train on the other.

Most pride I've felt for Michigan ever. Lloyd Carr's one great year. Too bad it was ruined by the Coaches and AP who wanted to give Tom Osbourne a nice parting gift.

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Lakers Celtics in the 80's

Yanks Sox now.

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For my 200th post, I would just like to say "[censored] Michigan"

Re: Your favorite Rivalry to watch (past and current)?
 

Bills-Jets
Bills-Dolphins
Angels-A's

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As a kid, it was Nebraska vs. Oklahoma on Thanksgiving. Tom Osborne vs. Barry Switzer, and the game almost always had national championship implications, with the winner going to the Orange Bowl.

Now, it's OU vs. Texas.

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By far best UM-PSU game I've ever watched is 1996. PSU ranked #1, UM ranked #4, crisp October game IN Happy Valley (I believe). Lavar Arrington, Curtis P. Enis, and Courtney Brown on one side, Charles Woodson, Brian Griese, and the A-Train on the other.

Most pride I've felt for Michigan ever. Lloyd Carr's one great year. Too bad it was ruined by the Coaches and AP who wanted to give Tom Osbourne a nice parting gift.

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THE Rivalry:

[censored] Michigan.

Don't think anybody mentioned this one (no rooting interest):

Wings-Avs (90s)

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Some love for the little guys:

Army-Navy
Wabash-DePauw

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i would say that it is ohio state michigan, but that really hasnt been much of a rivalry as of late.

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As in, as of last season? If you're an OSU fan I'm sure you're psyched as hell for the game this Saturday at 1:00. This means that it's a great rivalry; it's all a fan of either team has been thinking about all season.

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In Poland they tell Michigan jokes.

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Real Madrid v. Barca

aka this saturday, should be intense as always

Close second : River v. Boca, those mofos are crazy

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My fave:

http://cusebball.tripod.com/Douglas-Sherman.jpg

vs.

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NCAA football:
Growing up Nebraska-Oklahoma games really got me going
Now, Ohio State-Michigan
and Florida State-Florida make me happy

NFL:
Bears-Packers both past and present

NCAAB: Indiana-Purdue was awesome in the Midwest forever, but what happened to Purdue lately?
UNC-Duke would have to be a good one of late

NBA:
It's always Celtics-Lakers

NHL:
Leafs/Sens are the ones I enjoy the most

MLB:
Cards/Cubs past and present (that other MLB thing is just a bunch of Obnoxious people from the NorthEast in their arms race)

My favorite:
Illini/everybody else
Seriously, my alma mater has a chip on its shoulder v the NCAA/Iowa/Indiana/Mizzou/Michigan/tOSU--it's hilarious and My favorite to watch

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The PSU/MSU "rivalry" isn't really much of a "rivalry." Most PSU fans would much rather beat OSU or UM instead of MSU. We HATE Ohio State. Go figure.

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Curious if you hate Pitt and/or West Virginia. I'm a grad student at Pitt and fans will chant "Penn State sucks!" at seemingly random times, for example on the bus going to early non-conference games. I find it puzzling since they don't play each other anymore. Just curious if people have held on to the same feeling on the other side.

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In college football I've got to go with Oregon - Washington. I'm suffering from selective memory bias forgetting all the years Oregon got thoroughly whooped in the series but the 11 years since the Kenny Wheaton pick have been fun. I hate Washington, but this game has lost steam of late due to them sucking. I'm happy to see them go 2 - 9 or whatever but that takes a bit of the thrill away from beating them.

Oregon - Oregon State has also gotten better recently. We were on the winning side of dominating that but the last several in a row have gone to the home team. Should be good this year, can't wait.

Otherwise in college football I like Michigan - Ohio State as well as Miami - Florida State.

Pro football I always liked the Cowboys - 49ers matchups in the late 80s - early nineties. Would have liked a few more wins for the niners but they were good games.

In basketball I enjoyed Portland - Utah in the playoffs. Also very good series but ultimately dissapointing were all the Portland - LA series both in the late 80s - early 90s as well as the late 90s early 2000s.

In soccer I like Liverpool - Manchester United in England. For national teams England - Argentina always manages to be a good game. USA - Mexico is getting to be pretty good but there normally is little on the line as both tend to qualify. My two favorite rivalries in sports are Sevilla - Betis (see avatar) and Barcelona - Real Madrid. Real Madrid - Barcelona is like a more extreme version of the Yankees - Red Sox. Both teams with ridiculously overpaid players, Barça has a huge inferiority complex, and both are basically always at the top of the league. Sevilla - Betis is an unbelievably strong rivalry of two teams from the same city. Sevilla have had Betis' number of late, but last year was bad.

Can't wait for Saturday. Sevilla - Betis starts at 3 so it'll have to be recorded since the civil war starts at the same time. After hopefully watching Oregon kill OSU I'll be heading back to my parents to hopefully watch Sevilla kill Betis on tivo.

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The PSU/MSU "rivalry" isn't really much of a "rivalry." Most PSU fans would much rather beat OSU or UM instead of MSU. We HATE Ohio State. Go figure.

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Curious if you hate Pitt and/or West Virginia. I'm a grad student at Pitt and fans will chant "Penn State sucks!" at seemingly random times, for example on the bus going to early non-conference games. I find it puzzling since they don't play each other anymore. Just curious if people have held on to the same feeling on the other side.

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I don't like WVU personally because they're all a bunch of rednecks. I was going to mention that most PSUers don't like Pittsburgh either, but you're right, we don't play each other in anything anymore (besides basketball, but that's laughable), so the "rivalry" is really lukewarm. I bet if we started it up in football again, we could brew some pretty intense hatred.

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I am a bit suprised that Texas vs. Texas A&M hasn't received any mention. Granted, it has lost some of the appeal since the bonfire tragedy. As a longhorn fan, it was (strangely) fun to go to the bonfire in College Station.

NFL
Cowboys-Redpricks (especially when Crazy Ray punks Chief Bendover-and-grab-ankles)

Oakland vs. the AFC West (no rooting interest, just always seems to be bad blood)


MLB
Yankees vs. Redsox - I agree that this is overblown by the east coast media, but it is fun to watch.


NBA
Pacers vs. Knicks was good. It isn't anymore.

Bulls vs. Pistons/Knicks was good. It isn't anymore.

Pacers vs. Detroit would probably have to be the best current rivalry.


College FB
Texas vs. Texas A&M

Texas vs. Oklahoma - only thing keeping Texas from falling
into the Gulf of Mexico is that Oklahoma sucks

Michigan vs. OSU - fun to listen fans talk smack

Florida vs. Florida State/Georgia/Tennessee - Not nearly as good without the Ole Ball Coach.

FSU vs. Miami - not as good as in the past, but still decent
Alabama vs. Auburn - nice traditional slugfest

Pitt vs. West Virginia - some of the best smack ever. Especially from the PA announcer years back.


College BB
UNC vs. Duke - potential for a classic everytime

Cincy vs. Xavier - lost some luster since Bob Huggins is gone, but a nice matchup

Indiana vs. Purdue - again, not the same with The General, but still good (GO IU!)

Indiana vs. Kentucky - would be alot better if Mike Davis could pick up a win, at least once.


Misc
Rosie O'Donnell vs. Bellagio buffet - this is really a mismatch