Avalanche/Red Wings
Penguins/Flyers (maybe not so much anymore. :-/)

Notre Dame/Michigan
Notre Dame/USC
Tennessee/Florida
Texas/Nebraska
OSU/Michigan (even though I hate Big 10 football)

Toronto Maple Leafs and Montreal Canadiens
Edmonton Oilers and Dallas Stars

Michgan / Ohio State (football)

Ottawa Senators / Philadelphia Flyers

Green Bay Packers / Chicago Bears

Originally posted by Tchocky

Ottawa Senators / Philadelphia Flyers

wha?
Toronto and Philly maybe

Originally posted by machinaddict

wha?

Trust me. While everyone seems to focus on the Leafs/Senators (one-sided) rivalry, the Senators/Flyers rivalry is just beginning to boil. For the past two seasons, the Flyers have been eliminated by the Senators in the playoffs (and it would've happened again had the Senators advanced), and who can forget the last time the two teams played in the regular season they set a record for most penalty minutes in a single game.

Those two teams hate each other.

Carolina and Duke is pretty killer.

Originally posted by Eulogy

Texas/Nebraska


wtf? NO

UT/Oklahoma

Winnar: Red Sox v. Yankees
Some of those Canadian hockey teams
Edmonton v. Stars
Michigan v. Ohio State
Notre Dame v. USC
West Virginia v. Virginia
UNC v. Duke
Auburn v. Alabama

Originally posted by sppunk


wtf? NO

UT/Oklahoma


wtf? NO

TU/A&M

Originally posted by 2Marlon2Brando


wtf? NO

TU/A&M

Not really. A&M is all over UT's jock, but considering the national championship goes through UT/OU now, the Longhorns care more about that game.

A&M is almost another afterthough. Besides, A&M/Texas Tech is one hell of a better rivalry right now than UT/A&M.

Remember, rivals have to compete. Lately, UT has dominated A&M.

Originally posted by machinaddict
Edmonton Oilers and Dallas Stars

A rivarly implies a relationship which both parties take seriously. This is one-sided. Oilers hate the Stars. Stars laugh at the Oilers. It's like when I use to wear a Cowboys jersey in Green Bay Packer country. I had no idea the two teams were even rivals (they're not), but I was usually verbally assaulted for wearing the jersey because the Packers hate the Cowboys for keeping them from the Super Bowl prior to 1996.
Anyway, there's the Georgia Tech-Georgia football rivarly. Then there's everything else.

Originally posted by sppunk
Edmonton v. Stars


You're so not a Stars fan if you think this is a rivarly. Our only legitimate rivals are Colorado (because we dominated during the Belfour era although they rape us now) and San Jose (because they're the only team to win the Pacific ever other than us).

The USC-Notre Dame rivarly is awesome because it is cross-continental and because it has total total hatred on the part of the students of each school. If you know a Trojan or Irish, you know what I mean. Plus it's cool how they only play in South Bend in October (or is it Septmber) and only play USC after Thanksgiving.

Originally posted by The Ace of Aces


You're so not a Stars fan if you think this is a rivarly. Our only legitimate rivals are Colorado (because we dominated during the Belfour era although they rape us now) and San Jose (because they're the only team to win the Pacific ever other than us).

The USC-Notre Dame rivarly is awesome because it is cross-continental and because it has total total hatred on the part of the students of each school. If you know a Trojan or Irish, you know what I mean. Plus it's cool how they only play in South Bend in October (or is it Septmber) and only play USC after Thanksgiving.

I wouldn't say the Sharks are a rival. I said the Oilers simply because we have played them so often in the playoffs in recent years and the series are usually fairly tough. I don't give a damn about the Oilers.

I'm glad someone else finally said USC v. ND though. They fucking hate each other.

i think most pro sports rivalries are kind of lame. They usually die out or start for some dumb reason.

The red wings/avalanche rivalry started when lemieux cross checked draper.

At the time it was bad, and everyone hated them, but now its not that big anymore. Its pretty much the same for most other teams, tensions always die after a few years. The only possible exception i can think of is Boston/New York in baseball.

But i think the "best" rivalries are usually any 2 instate colleges playing each other. I mean, sure, some other college rivalries are huge, like Michigan and OSU, but playing your instate rival is an entirely different thing, since alot of kids have their best friends at the other schools.

So anyways, im just going to say college football rivalries are the best, since most of them have been rooted for decades.

dodgers/giants
usc/ucla
soxs/yanks

Ace vs. Debaser (football)

Auburn/ Bama

rangers/islanders. rangers swept the season series this year, too. the only plus side of the entire season.

Originally posted by machinaddict
Toronto Maple Leafs and Montreal Canadiens


This isn't really much of a rivalry anymore, not like it used to be.

As a Sox fan, the only one I really care about is Sox/Yanks.

Originally posted by The Ace of Aces


A rivarly implies a relationship which both parties take seriously. This is one-sided. Oilers hate the Stars. Stars laugh at the Oilers.
Uh replace stars with yankees and oilers with red sox and it's the exact same situation.

England Vs Germany

the only reason people reject the Yankees/Sox rivalry is because people are sick of hearing about it.

Whether or not the media is a whore to it or not, it still is the greatest rivalry in sports.

The best rivalries are college rivalries: Carolina/Duke, USC/UCLA, Auburn/'Bama. The only thing in professional sports that can compete with the passion college kids can bring year in and year out to those rivalries is Yanks/Sox.

Originally posted by machinaddict
Toronto Maple Leafs and Montreal Canadiens
Edmonton Oilers and Dallas Stars

I wanted BOTH of those.

Italy and Brazil (soccer obviously).

well, the red sox sweeped my yanks... I'm frankly not worried though. most fans would be, but I'm a spoiled yankees fan and I know they'll be in the playoffs by the end of the year facing the red sox in the alcs. :o

Originally posted by JewishBabe
England Vs Germany zing!

not really 'best', cos it's partially-religiously motivated but when Glasgow Rangers and Glasgow Celtic play eachother in footie, the number of reported assaults across the whole of scotland increases an average of three-fold. that's pretty scary.

the rivalry i care most about is Everton vs Liverpool. fuckin red shite.

- Paris Saint Germain v Olympique Marseille (french soccer)

I don't even know where to begin describing the fans alone,
Just recently, PSG fans, during a match, tried to break in to the opposing stands and assault the oppositions fans. Marseille fans (which are a sight to see and hear, but you wouldn't want to be ten feet near the stadium) try to attack even the players when they're on a bad run. Poor Christophe Dugarry, an ex Marseille player, was nearly assaulted quite a few times by groups of fans- during training even (poor bastard). I just watched a video of a Marseille match where they were flinging the seats at the opposing fans and even threw a flare straight into the crowd! Luckily it hit at the feet of a group of huddled people trying to move. I'd watch OM matches just to see the crowds- as dangerous as it is, it's extremely fascinating, there's great celebratory singing too.

An example: This is something OM fans sing for PSG

http://willyz85.free.fr/mp3/oh%20parisiens.mp3

Oh Parisien, on va niquer ta mère !
Oh Parisien, on va tous vous tuer !
Allez, allez, Marseillais !
On va tous vous tuer, allez...


Sounds great, right? It translates to this! (according to altavista):

Parisien, one will screw your mother!
Oh Parisien, one all will kill you!
Go, go, Marseillais!
One all will kill you, go...

That's just one of many many OM songs (some are great and encouraging!)


- I am hoping for a nice France v England rivalry to start. The two times I've seem them play together in the past few years have been friendlies, how dissapointing, I absolutely cannot wait for the Euro 2004 match(/s?)


- Arsenal vs Man United of course.

- Real Madrid v Barcelona - great great match last week.


this is all soccer/football by the way.

Kentucky vs. Tennessee, Florida, Duke

Originally posted by Rima
Arsenal vs Man United of course.that's not much of a rivalry really...they only started hating eachother when they found themselves challenging for the major trophies each season, that was only about 10 years ago. there's no long-term historical rivalry.

better rivalries:
Man Utd vs Liverpool
Newcastle vs Sunderland
Tottenham vs Arsenal

Frank Rijkaard VS Rudi Voller
Fucking comedy gold.

http://www.f-vm2002.dk/pictures/photos/1990/rijkaard.jpg

Speaking about voller and comedy gold: Rumania 5 - 1 Germany :D

Originally posted by Nothing/everything
Speaking about voller and comedy gold: Rumania 5 - 1 Germany :D yeah, i had a good laugh about that too...

Originally posted by scouse_dave
yeah, i had a good laugh about that too...

i can't wait for the euro2004 championship. The first match for the Netherlands is against Germany, i love those matches.

Originally posted by Nothing/everything


i can't wait for the euro2004 championship. The first match for the Netherlands is against Germany, i love those matches. If this is gonna raise your expectations a bit, I got to inform you Czech rep. lost 1 to 0 to Japan (!!!) yesterday with all stars in the line-up.Unfortunately I was watching that blasphemy. It's true we were testing some new strategies, but still the result is very sad.

Originally posted by RopeyLopey
If this is gonna raise your expectations a bit, I got to inform you Czech rep. lost 1 to 0 to Japan (!!!) yesterday with all stars in the line-up.Unfortunately I was watching that blasphemy. It's true we were testing some new strategies, but still the result is very sad.

i heard that, no a very good result. And Latvia played 0-0 home against Iceland. The Netherlands put up a good 2nd half and beat Greece 4-0 :D

Originally posted by Nothing/everything


i heard that, no a very good result. And Latvia played 0-0 home against Iceland. The Netherlands put up a good 2nd half and beat Greece 4-0 :D the thing is we were trying 3-5-2 system and it didn't turn out well. The coach was also trying some new ways of dealing with standard situations, however the players looked a bit confused, too.
However, before EURO we are supposed to play among others against Bulgaria - I guess the result form this match will tell us much more.

However, there was at least one good thing about the match: Pavel Nedved brought here this little thing and everybody was free to see it on their own eyes :):
<img src="http://imgs.idnes.cz/fotbal/A040427_RAV_ZLATYV_V.JPG">

Originally posted by RopeyLopey
However, there was at least one good thing about the match: Pavel Nedved brought here this little thing and everybody was free to see it on their own eyes :):
<img src="http://imgs.idnes.cz/fotbal/A040427_RAV_ZLATYV_V.JPG">

Is his hairstyle in style there or is everyone as perplexed as the rest of the world?

no, that's just how people look in the Czech Republic...

:p

Originally posted by machinaddict

Uh replace stars with yankees and oilers with red sox and it's the exact same situation. A hammer and a nail aren't rivals.

Yanks / Sox.

England / Australia (cricket).

Bruins, Canadiens
Red Sox, Yankees
Duke, UNC
Harwich, Nauset lolololol!

UConn bitches vs. Tennessee bitches