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[QUOTE="SU94, post: 2071638, member: 202"]
Yes, bizarre thread. Townie must have grown up on the West Side (inside Rochester joke)!

I grew up in and look fondly upon my 20 years in Rochester (still visit annually). I read and listened to Bob Matthews for 15+ years before starting my adult life. If anything, he consistently promoted the exploits of SU sports. Yes, he used to write occasionally how he wished the U of R had been taken on the athletic profile of SU, but it was never a spiteful. Just wistful longing.

And I will testify, SU hoops is remarkably popular in Rochester. SU football much less so, but that has a lot to do with the lack of success and the overriding presence of the Bills, which is understandable. Very few (in Rochester and most places) were willing to sacrifice their fall weekends following the Orange on Saturdays and the Bills on Sunday. Too much. Now if Babers starts winning 9 or 10 games annually ... okay, let's not get ahead of myself just yet.

In the last 2 decades (likely longer), the Sabres have grown in prominence as Rochester and Buffalo have, in essence, grown closer. "Blame" that on cable TV and the enhanced luxury and safety of the automobile (its a lot easier/comfotable/safer to drive from Rochester to Buffalo these days than in the late 70s due to technology, phones, gas mileage, etc.).

Let's wrap it up this way, Rochester is a hockey town with a solid affinity for Yankees baseball in the summer and SU hoops in the winter.
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