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Message: [QUOTE="TheCusian, post: 1600465, member: 2585"] Hate to break it to you - but yeah - that's exactly what happens. Old rivalries fade away as one or both of the teams fade or go in different directions - and as the people who remember these things fade away. It's completely possible for a young fan to think of Team x as a rivalry and the older fan to scoff at the notion only to find out that they believe a different team further back in history is the rival. (And then an even older fan remembers when team x who doesn't even play football anymore was a rivalry and the other guys scoff at him). They are both right. There is no central organizing force rubber stamping rivalries. ESPN or the ACC come close and we don't love their suggestions of BC and/or Pitt. So, yeah - each generation does kind of get to define the word or pick the team. (I'm not saying Rutgers is it. I think you have to play a team every year. But that's MY definition) [/QUOTE]