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Rivalry Thread

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Chef2, Aug 3, 2011.

  1. CarltonBanks

    CarltonBanks New Member

    Ask Steelers fans if they have a rivalry with the Browns. While Steelers-Ravens has meant more over the last few years, Browns-Steelers will always be the biggest rivalry for both teams.
     
  2. joe_schmoe

    joe_schmoe Active Member

    I'd pick Grambling vs. Southern too. Gotta love a rivalry where no one gives a crap about the winner of the game, but instead get into big wars over the bands. That's good stuff.

    On a national level OU vs. Texas is bigger than Texas vs. A&M, but....
    --for people who grew up in Texas, it's one of those where you pretty much pick a side early on in life you're an Aggie or a Longhorn (then the majority of us get to college age and become neither but still have a preference)
    --in state, almost everyone in Texas has a mutual disrespect for Oklahoma, the schools, the state, the people (though over the last 10 years or so, we've made the Indian nations rich by flooding the border casinos. Southern Oklahoma is now home to the world's third largest casino).
    ---outside of football, Texas vs. Oklahoma is useless, except maybe in softball. Every other sport it's pretty much Texas vs. Texas.

    All that being said, I don't know I'd put any Texas rivalry ahead of Bama/Auburn or Ohio State/Michigan.
     
  3. Mizzougrad96

    Mizzougrad96 Active Member

    They had a biggest rivalry poll on ESPN.com.

    Alabama-Auburn was the runaway winner.
    Michigan-Ohio State was a very clear second.

    Third was Pitt-WVU, slightly ahead of Texas-OU. I must admit, that one stunned me...
     
  4. Armchair_QB

    Armchair_QB Well-Known Member

    I'm surprised there are enough people in West Virginia with access to computers to cast enough votes. Must have been all Pitt fans.
     
  5. doctorquant

    doctorquant Well-Known Member

    No doubt about it, Auburn-Alabama is intense. It might not be as intense as its partisans make it out to be, though. I recall in Bill Curry's first year at Alabama lots of the local media types scoffing at how "unprepared" he was for the intensity of that game. Sheesh, I thought, this guy was a starting center for Vince Lombardi in Green Bay. He started in three Super Bowls (OK, this was before they got so big, but still ...). Maybe he never walked the sideline of an Iron Bowl, but I'd wager he's been around intense before.
     
  6. Michael_ Gee

    Michael_ Gee Well-Known Member

    By "intense" those commentators did not mean the intensity level of the competition itself. They mean all the pissing and moaning they planned to do about whichever coach lost the game.
     
  7. dixiehack

    dixiehack Well-Known Member

    At 0-3, Bill Curry wasn't ready.
     
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