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What are the 5 best rivalries?
Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 7:07 am
by DDV
bears packers
the afc west
the nfc east
steelers browns
?
Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 2:29 pm
by Wizards2Lottery
Skins-Cowboys
Steelers-Browns
Bears-Packers
Raiders-Broncos
Colts-Patriots
Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 4:21 pm
by Da Schwab
Packers & Bears
Packers & Vikings
Giants & Iggles
Cowboys & Redskins
Giants & Cowboys
Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 2:57 am
by Disco_Biscuit
Da Schwab wrote:Packers & Bears
Packers & Vikings
Giants & Iggles
Cowboys & Redskins
Giants & Cowboys
No NFC bias here or anything.
Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 4:38 am
by studcrackers
well it is the most historical conference thats been around a lot longer
id say packers/bears and redskins/cowboys are definitely the top 2, after that they're up for debate. if you want to go for more recent rivalries then its NE/Indy, say you want something more classic id say cowboys/49ers or maybe steelers/raiders. perhaps you could throw in pittsburgh/cleveland, thats a pretty good rivalry
Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 5:12 am
by Bleeding Green
These rivalries are pretty weak because very few of them involve two very good teams. Which is what makes the Indy/NE rivalry so cool
Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 5:19 am
by PR07
Colts-Patriots
Cowboys-Redskins/Giants
Packers-Bears
Broncos-Chiefs/Raiders
Steelers-Browns
Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 11:19 pm
by ReasonablySober
Those in the southern half of my state will disagree, but Packers vs Vikings has been a much more heated rivalry than Packers and Bears for the past 15 years.
Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 2:42 am
by A.J.
Texans/Cowboys in a few years.
Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 2:45 am
by Reks
Niners and Raiders because I live in the Bay Area.
Eagles and Cowboys
Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 6:10 pm
by milehigh
Broncos - Raiders/Chiefs
Cowboys - Redskins
Patriots - Colts
Giants - Cowboys
Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 11:12 pm
by UrbanLegendMD
DrugBust wrote:Those in the southern half of my state will disagree, but Packers vs Vikings has been a much more heated rivalry than Packers and Bears for the past 15 years.
Probably cause when Bears are bad, Packers suck and vice versa.
Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 11:30 pm
by randomhero423
Giants/Cowboys
Giants/Eagles
MUST be included in any list....
NFC East as the best rivalries by far in the NFL.
Posted: Thu May 22, 2008 12:34 pm
by Basketball Jesus
The Pat-Colts rivalry is a media-created, meathead-fueled fabrication. The Pats have had a long-standing heated rivalry with the Jets which, awesomely enough, is starting to flare back up again.
Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 6:15 am
by Cevap
Skins-Boys
Steelers-Browns
are top two imho
Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 6:24 am
by Bleeding Green
Basketball Jesus wrote:The Pat-Colts rivalry is a media-created, meathead-fueled fabrication. The Pats have had a long-standing heated rivalry with the Jets which, awesomely enough, is starting to flare back up again.
What? Jets suck. Boring.
Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 7:24 pm
by HCYanks
How the hell is Pats-Colts a media fabrication? They're two most consistent contenders of the 00's, they have the two best QB's in the league, and they've had some very good games. Just because ESPN latches on like a Tijuana hooker doesn't mean it's fake.
Jets-Pats is basically the redheaded stepbrother of Yanks-Sox. No one cares all that much but people get fired up on gameday because "New York/Boston is a city full of queers and their foosball team can blow me."
Posted: Sat May 24, 2008 1:50 am
by Da Schwab
I don't want to say the Pats-Colts games are overblown, because most of the recent matchups have been great games, but they are severly overhyped.
Posted: Sat May 24, 2008 4:44 am
by Basketball Jesus
HCYanks wrote:How the hell is Pats-Colts a media fabrication? They're two most consistent contenders of the 00's, they have the two best QB's in the league, and they've had some very good games. Just because ESPN latches on like a Tijuana hooker doesn't mean it's fake.
Again, it's purely a "rivalry" spawned by two contemporary powerhouses. It's like calling the Cowboys and Niners a rivalry because both were concurrent perennial contenters in the early Nineties. There's no long-standing animosity or history between the clubs, or at least enough of either to bring justice to the term "rivalry". True rivalries should be somewhat timeless, not merely a convenience of fortune.
Jets-Pats is basically the redheaded stepbrother of Yanks-Sox. No one cares all that much but people get fired up on gameday because "New York/Boston is a city full of queers and their foosball team can blow me."
And the Yankees-Sox are the Cousin Oliver of the whole NYC Culture v. Boston Academia rivalry of the 1800s, if you want to be pedantic about it. That's obviously besides the point. The Jets and Patriots have been heated rivals since their AFL days. Just because a bunch of BU/NU students backwards-baseball-capped their way onto the Patriots bandwagon back in the early aughts doesn't mean the rivalry is merely a by-product of the Yankees-Sox media hype.
Posted: Sat May 24, 2008 7:06 am
by Latrell
Basketball Jesus wrote:The Pat-Colts rivalry is a media-created, meathead-fueled fabrication. The Pats have had a long-standing heated rivalry with the Jets which, awesomely enough, is starting to flare back up again.
Also, its more between the fans of the Colts/Pats rather than the players/coaches themselves. The Pats and Colts players respect each other for the most part and there is no animosity there. But there is between the fans of the teams.
With the Jets/Pats there is actual bad blood with the whole Mangini/Belichiek and all the spygate bull.