The Greatest Rivalries In Sports

[Kace]

Duke Vs. UNC
England Vs. Argentina
Bears Vs. Packers
Petty Vs. Pearson
Ali Vs. Frazier

What are your favorites and which is the Greatest of them all?

[Nature Boy FriarTuck00]

Duke - UNC (hoops only - both football teams are a joke)
Yankees - Red Sox
Colts - Patriots
Bill Belichick - Good Fashion Sense (This one's pretty one-sided, though)

[jrat33]

Duke - UNC (hoops only - both football teams are a joke)
Yankees - Red Sox
Colts - Patriots
Bill Belichick - Good Fashion Sense (This one's pretty one-sided, though)

Ohio State/Michigan...tops 'em all (and I'm a Sox fan).

[commercial hack]

Cal vs. Stanford
Army vs. Navy
Benicia vs. Vanden (My High School Rivalry)
Alabama vs. Auburn
Red Sox vs. Yankees
Dodgers vs. Giants (my personal favorite)
Jeff Gordon vs. Every NASCAR Fan


Ohio St. Michigan seems to be the biggest but every school has their own rival and that's the most important one.

[Stack It]

Syracuse/Georgetown: how often can you wear a shirt that says "Your momma is a Hoya and she wears army boots"
Indiana/Kentucky: great to watch at a neutral site, half the stadium is red, the other blue
Cal/Stanford: the mascots fight, for real. And the pranks are priceless. What would you expect from 2 of the best schools in the country?
Army/Navy: not much more to say
Ohio State/Michigan: stakes are always high
Giants/Dodgers: a real baseball rivalry that isn't one-sided like...
Yankees/Red Sox: honestly, I think this is more of Boston hating New York. The Yanks dominated for so long
Cardinals/Cubs: lot of passion
Any NFC North match up: so much history between all the teams
Cowboys/Redskins: it's cowboys and indians!
Miami/Florida State: until recently, this game was always good
49ers/Rams: it carries on even with the Rams in St. Louis. Tim McDonald's quote still carries on, "Same old 49ers, same old Rams."

[cinehead]

How about greatest now dormant rivalries? Rivalries that once made headlines, but for one reason or another aren't what they used to be:

Chiefs - Raiders. It's been too long since both teams were good.
Celtics - Lakers. Ditto. With the Celtics back on the map, maybe this one will get revived.
Oklahoma - Nebraska. Why did the powers that be kill this one?

Any more?

[markminn]

Umm...God vs. Satan??

[T-Towner]

High school football? It has to be here in Tulsa, Oklahoma - Union vs Jenks

http://studentsports.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=446418

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1208/is_38_229/ai_n15402487

[Kace]

Umm...God vs. Satan??

One's in basketball and the other's in hockey...how could they possibly have a rivalry?

[Bandit]

Great Taste vs. Less Filling
Garry Kasparov vs. Anatoly Karpov
USA vs. USSR in the race to the Moon

[Ralphie the buffalo]

Garry Kasparov vs. Anatoly Karpov


Are you kidding?

I am not a chess aficionado but, even I know that Bobby Fischer vs Boris Spassky (1972) was the chess match of the century.

People who didn't give a damn about chess were drawn into coverage of that rivalry.

[Sir Dropham Pants]

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Cowboys/Redskins: it's cowboys and indians!
"

I like to think of it as good vs. evil.

[s'news]

David and Goliath?

[markminn]

I like to think of it as good vs. evil.

Yep. The Cowboys ARE evil!!

[Sir Dropham Pants]

No doubt about it.
Especially Rick Romo.

[The Thrill]

Austin vs. McMahon. ;)

Honorable mentions to Packers/Bears and Packers/Cowboys. (At least for us up here.)

[Braveheart]

Army-Navy.

Admit it, even when both teams absolutely stink, if you catch it while you're flipping through the channels, you'll stop and watch.

Also, if you've ever seen the John McCain pre-game speech to Navy before the 2002 (?) Army-Navy game where he chokes up, you know it'll give you goosebumps.

Anyone know where I could watch a clip of that speech online?

[no ifb]

Florida-Georgia

[+SN]

Celtics - Lakers. Ditto. With the Celtics back on the map, maybe this one will get revived.

The Celtics will be there... The Lakers won't.

+SN

[JoinUsForCake]

Washington Nationals vs. Tampa Bay Devil Rays
Houston Texans vs. Detroit Lions
Memphis Grizzlies vs. Atlanta Hawks
Minnesota Wild vs. Florida Panthers
Middle Tennessee State vs. Temple
Centenary vs. Mt. St. Mary's

[WalMartNation]

Nobody sees it outside of this region but the Seattle Sonics vs. Portland Trailblazers still has plenty of anger in their rivalry. Oden/Durant going 1/2 in the draft helped.. until Oden got hurt, and the redneck fck from OKC that owns the Sonics will move the team next year.

A seattle group will by the Memphis Grizzlies and move them to Seattle, thus re-energizing the Vancouver Grizzlies vs. Portland Trailblazers rivalry that was never energized in the first place.

Back in the mid-90s the Western Hockey League had teams in both Tacoma and Seattle (seattle's still there, Tacoma moved to Kelowna, BC) While this rivalry was not "great" it did make for dangerous entertainment when the two played... you never knew which place would have more fights and cussing, the ice, or the stands.

[south side of the sky]

Mizzou-Kansas is very heated
Blues-Blackhawks used to be very good but not as of late

Thats all I got to add

[s'news]

Harlem Globetrotters and Washington Generals.

[chickensalad]

Just about anybody that plays them turns it into a rivalry. But A&M, OU are probaly the two biggest ones.

[AutoTranz]

http://www.kickoffzone.com/articles/Images/IronBowl_Logo.jpg

[The Thrill]

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vs.

http://ployer.com/archives/2007/04/23/logo_timewarner.gif

[MaryRichards]

Indiana/Kentucky: great to watch at a neutral site, half the stadium is red, the other blue

Any Kentucky fan will tell you - Indiana is not considered Big Blue's rival.

Louisville, quite possibly.

Duke - definitely (though the feeling may not be mutual among the Blue Devils).

But Indiana? Nope.

[Kace]

Duke - definitely (though the feeling may not be mutual among the Blue Devils).

Replace, "may," with, "is," and subtract the, "be." ;)

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Cards vs Cubs


You can prove it with the posts on this board.

[casterdamus]

One year wonder - Affirmed and Alydar

[Mr. Pratfall]

Magic Johnson vs. Skeletor

[Wedge]

Any Kentucky fan will tell you - Indiana is not considered Big Blue's rival.

Louisville, quite possibly.

Duke - definitely (though the feeling may not be mutual among the Blue Devils).

But Indiana? Nope.


OMG...as a UK fan for 25+ years I can tell you that Duke is nowhere near the chief rival of Kentucky. They hardly ever play. Sure there's a deep hatred for Duke, mainly because of the ESPN love-affair with the Blue Devils...oh, and that Christian Laettner thing, but it's not a rivalry.

Louisville is the chief rival and there's an argument that it’s the best college basketball rivalry in the country. Indiana is second. I would put UNC above Duke as a rival for Kentucky.

[Kace]

They hardly ever play. Sure there's a deep hatred for Duke, mainly because of the ESPN love-affair with the Blue Devils...

Granted that love affair's limited to the basketball team and only durin' basketball season, in which the love is shared with UNC, the Big East and some of the Big 11. But ESPN'll always have its true love in Notre Dame Football, the Yankees and Red Sox.

Coach K putting over the Kentucky people after that win in Philadelphia shouldn't inspire too much hatred, either. I can understand a grudge (albeit a very minor one) against Christian Laettner, but that's about it.

[MaryRichards]

Hatred is the only way you can describe how Big Blue fans feel for Duke.

Cat fans see the replay every March Madness.

They even play the entire game on the Deuce.

Ask any kid at Woodland and Euclid - they'll tell you they hate Duke.

I'm just sayin...

[Kace]

Yeah, but that's the Greatest Sports Contest Ever. It was a game for the ages and so on. 'Bout the only thing for me that comes closest to that is the 1979 Daytona 500 (which was also on CBS, come to think of it).

[Wedge]

I would say the comeback win in 98 in the regional finals went a long way in healing the 92 wounds. Also, that 92 loss may have been hard to swallow, but compared to where UK was just a year or two prior to that, it was a huge statement for the program.

Most kids at that corner you mentioned were barely out of diapers when the 92 game occurred. So yea, they see a painful loss replayed over and over again, but don't realize what that game really meant for Kentucky basketball. There's a reason jersey's of 4 players from that losing team hang in the rafters at Rupp.

So maybe for the younger fans, Duke and Florida may be a bigger rival in their minds. However, for older UK fans, Louisville and IU will always be the biggest rivals. So maybe in a way we're both right

[Kace]

I would say the comeback win in 98 in the regional finals went a long way in healing the 92 wounds.

Great win for Kentucky, too.