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re: Is Ohio St. vs. Michigan a better rivalry than Bama vs. Auburn?
Posted on 10/9/15 at 12:41 pm to Buckeye06
Posted on 10/9/15 at 12:41 pm to Buckeye06
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I'm saying take the football out of the equation completely. If 4 people are in a room together, 1 of each of the 4 teams, the 3 from Ohio State, Bama and Auburn will hang out with each other. The "Michigan Man" won't. They think of themselves as the 'aristocracy' of life.
Edit: actually they think of themselves like that with or without college football so I'm editing
well this isnt true
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Posted on 10/9/15 at 12:42 pm to WildTchoupitoulas
quote:The same could be said for any rivalry and its locales when it doesn't have national implications. Except for Army-Navy
No one really cares outside of a few counties in northern Alabama and eastern Tennessee.
quote:Myopic is not synonymous with provincial. Provincial is a synonym for rural, uncosmopolitan. You're not really saying anything or if you are, it applies to every rivalry.
No, it's correct, another term that would apply here would be "provincial".
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ou're right, that rivalry isn't as big, nationally, as OSU-Michigan either. Sorry.
Posted on 10/9/15 at 12:42 pm to nc14
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I found them to be pleasant and engaging in Dallas a few years back.
You mean when they weren't good?
My friend is an FSU fan. He called me up randomly one day and was like "Michigan people are such pricks" and went on a rant about how he never understood it before but now he hates them. He said he was doing their audit and this guy was just too important to talk to him
Posted on 10/9/15 at 12:43 pm to Buckeye06
They were top ten and had high expectations when we played that game.
Posted on 10/9/15 at 12:43 pm to Buckeye06
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The "Michigan Man"...think of themselves as the 'aristocracy' of life.
You've obviously never seen/heard a Les Miles press conference.
Posted on 10/9/15 at 12:45 pm to DisplacedBuckeye
quote:I didn't say anything about historical ratings
Prove it, after you prove your nonsense about historical ratings.
Posted on 10/9/15 at 12:46 pm to genro
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I didn't say anything about historical ratings
Yes you did, using different wording.
Posted on 10/9/15 at 12:47 pm to WildTchoupitoulas
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You've obviously never seen/heard a Les Miles press conference.
I love Les Miles but he is far from the prototype. Hell he's far from the prototype of anything
Posted on 10/9/15 at 12:48 pm to Wallacewade04
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all rivalries are localized
they mythology around Michigan and Ohio State is better because it's a broader more appealing story than two deep south schools in the same state hating each other
: kige :
Posted on 10/9/15 at 12:48 pm to DisplacedBuckeye
I really didn't. I said it gets better ratings consistently. If you extrapolated 'throughout history' from that, that's on you.
Historical ratings doesn't even make sense. Putting virtually every game on TV is a fairly recent development
Historical ratings doesn't even make sense. Putting virtually every game on TV is a fairly recent development
Posted on 10/9/15 at 12:48 pm to DisplacedBuckeye
Wow, I can see how you think Michigan fans are the unbearable ones. 
Posted on 10/9/15 at 12:49 pm to boogiewoogie1978
It's so fricking lame to compare the Yankee rivalry to the hate fest that is Auburn-Alabama. The passion involved and the great moments in the actual games all belong to the Iron Bowl.
Even the 1 v. 2 game between OSU and UM in 2006 was
on the excitement scale.
Even the 1 v. 2 game between OSU and UM in 2006 was
on the excitement scale.Posted on 10/9/15 at 12:51 pm to genro
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I really didn't. I said it gets better ratings consistently. If you extrapolated 'throughout history' from that, that's on you.
I didn't say throughout history.
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Historical ratings doesn't even make sense. Putting virtually every game on TV is a fairly recent development
Who said anything about every game? We're talking about two games a year.
Posted on 10/9/15 at 12:54 pm to genro
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Myopic is not synonymous with provincial
I didn't say it was, I said that term would apply as well. However both imply a narrow-mindedness.
But then the "better" in the OP is subjective, and could mean any number of criteria to be used. But yeah, generally, nationally, I think the OSU - Michigan game is seen as the bigger rivalry at least.
Posted on 10/9/15 at 12:54 pm to nc14
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Wow, I can see how you think Michigan fans are the unbearable ones.
Using TV ratings is about as comical as using T-shirt sales. Sorry for pointing that out.
Posted on 10/9/15 at 12:54 pm to DisplacedBuckeye
quote:You said historical
I didn't say throughout history.
quote:It wasn't that long ago, that even those games wouldn't make it on national TV
Who said anything about every game? We're talking about two games a year.
At this point we're just arguing about arguing
Posted on 10/9/15 at 1:01 pm to genro
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You said historical
I sure did, with no specification on a timeline. Certainly not, "throughout history", which implies the entirety of college football's timespan.
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It wasn't that long ago, that even those games wouldn't make it on national TV
Yep.
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At this point we're just arguing about arguing
Cool with me, I'm bored.
Posted on 10/9/15 at 1:03 pm to DisplacedBuckeye
Just to level set, there are no Michigan fans dropping in the rant being unbearable.
Posted on 10/9/15 at 1:07 pm to nc14
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Just to level set, there are no Michigan fans dropping in the rant being unbearable.
They're all working, and you can't use cell phones around gas pumps.
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