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Message: [QUOTE="freescooter, post: 5049812, member: 1023"] People just don’t get rivalries. Just because you play a team every year and you’ve had a few good games doesn’t make them a rival. When you think of rivalries, you can name them. In basketball UNC-Duke, football Michigan-Ohio State, Texas-Oklahoma. BC-BU in hockey. Those games. Harvard-Yale. Longevity is a part but only a part. You don’t build a rivalry in 5 games but just playing someone a lot doesn’t make them a rival either. There is something extra in those games that is hard to really identify. I mean Harvard has played Brown almost as often as Yale but nobody calls that The Game. Just playing a few Big Games doesn’t make it a rivalry either. And just because one side goes through a tough patch doesn’t make a rivalry disappear. It might even make it more intense. [/QUOTE]