What is the greatest pro football rivalry of all time?

[Beware the Beast Man]

Feel free to add your own.

[LSK]

1. Raiders vs Broncos

Cant believe you left it out.

[Beware the Beast Man]

2. I'll add it.

That's too big to omit. Sorry!

[RevCheesehead]

3. Packers/Bears (and yes, in that order)

I don't know if it's the greatest, but it most certainly is one of the oldest.

[RetroLounge]

5. Ah, but the order has changed, hasn't it.

Bears / Packers, at least this year...

:hi:

RL

[RevCheesehead]

7. There is a difference, you know,

between confidence and cockiness.
:hi:

[RetroLounge]

8. You said cockiness...

:beavis:

:butthead:

:rofl:

RL

[RevCheesehead]

11. Be sure to turn up the sound, baby....

http://packerpalace.com/palace96/rock9614a.html


:rofl:

[bmbmd]

4. Even in Texas

we know it is Bears vs. Packers.

[XNASA]

6. Bears-Packers, since 1921.

[xmas74]

20. I want that Fuck Chicago shirt!

I'd wear it every day if I could.

[XNASA]

21. I don't doubt it for a second.

[xmas74]

22. Born and raised in Kenosha until I was 13.

Then I got stuck in the hellhole aka Missouri.

I'm a huge Packer fan.

[XNASA]

23. You have my sympathies.

[xmas74]

27. I miss the North.

I miss real snow instead of the slush and ice we have here.
And I hate the Chiefs w/ a red hot passion that I cannot describe. At least I have the Royals for a good laugh.

[XNASA]

33. Oh well. Just remember this always....

"And reflect that whatever misfortune may be your lot
It could only be worse in Milwaukee."

[RetroLounge]

55. Hey!

As a Chicagoan stuck here in BrewTown, I resemble that remark!

:rofl:

RL

[sasquatch]

41. That little kid is priceless

:rofl::spray:

[sasquatch]

9. Browns vs Bengals in the '80s got pretty nasty

[underpants]

10. Cowboys and Indians

The Bears and the Packers?? Sure they are one of the oldest ( Redskins and Cardinals have played 117 times) but how often does that game mean anything any more???

It is clearly the Cowboys and the Redskins. I know that that game hasn't meant a whole lot over the last 10 years (yesterday's game was the first time both have been above .500 since '96) but aside from some lips service to the OLD NFL and the Bears/Packers etc. I think you won't find many people who think that Dallas and DC aren't the biggest rivalry in the NFL.

[XNASA]

16. Both of those teams wear white at home......

...and therefore must be proclaimed 'freakish'.

Every Bears game means something. Where are you from anyway?

[underpants]

18. more than 50 miles from Chicago

so every Bears game doesn't matter "out here"

:bounce:

I can honestly say that wearing white at home was not the norm. :shrug:

[TheMightyFavog]

36. I would have to agree.

When we went on a band trip to DC in 1997, I was walking down the street wearing a grey and blue T-shirt with nothing on it. Some lady came up to me and asked me if I was a Cowboys fan.

[LynneSin]

12. Oh come on this is the lamest poll

I mean to not have the Cowboys-Eagles on there. Hell we threw snowballs at them at a football game. I once watched a group of Eagles fans overturn a porta-potty because someone with a Cowboys jersey went into it.

I mean that's the reason why during the NFL alignment they left Dallas in the eastern division even though Dallas is no where near the East Coast

[Beware the Beast Man]

14. Fuck the Eagles.

And fuck you too if you have nothing nice to say about my poll. ;)

[LynneSin]

15. Well Fuck you just for being a Steelers fan

See, I can do this too

:loveya:

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

19. Fuck you both for having anything to do with Pennsylvania.

:shrug:

[kick-ass-bob]

17. That's bullshit. Everyone knows that Dallas wanted to get away from

the Cardinals, they were so scared to face them 2x a year!

[Richardo]

26. Eagles fans do that shit to EVERYBODY.

A rivalry must be focused on one opponent.

[JVS]

31. It's only a rivalry when Eagles fans throw batteries.

Up until then it is a normal or even an exhibition game.

[sasquatch]

44. To prove your point

The Eagles fan booed very loudly while Michael Irvin was being carted off the field after he injured his neck against the Eagles, that was the end of his career BTW.

[JVS]

46. The actions of Eagles fans are too indiscriminantly hostile to fall...

under the rubric of a rivalry. A rivalry is a particular hostilit towards another team. Eagles fans just demonstrate unbridled ill-will toward all, frequently against their own team.

[maveric]

13. Chargers - Raiders. Fans DIE at those games.

It gets really ugly in SD and up in Oaktown when these two AFL charter members lock horns. The teams hate each other and the fans hate each other.
The Charger fans sem to have a little more class.

[MrSlayer]

24. Eagles - Cowgirls.

Come to Philly on Dallas day if you doubt it.

[JVS]

25. The Steelers, God's very own chosen team, vs. everyone in the world.

[AllegroRondo]

28. Packers / Vikings

[ScreamingMeemie]

30. That's still a baby rivalry. Vikings haven't been around long enough.

But it could be sometime in the future. I hate Vikings fans more...;) :hi:

[JVS]

32. Vikings are disqualified from a good rivalry because they play in a dome

If the Vikings and Packers played in the cold open, it would be such an apocalyptic football frenzy that I'd have huge respect for the game.

[ScreamingMeemie]

34. True true....see my post below. That is my reasoning behind Packers/Bears.

That and they have been around longer than Hector. It's all about Curly. :hi:

[ScreamingMeemie]

29. There is only one...the mud and the blood and the guts of a freezing

cold Packers/Bears game...Played the way God intended...Outside, in freezing cold temperatures. :thumbsup:


It makes it all the more easier to flip off FIBs

[HEyHEY]

35. Stampeders Eskimos

[JVS]

37. Is that some kind of 55 yardline bullshit?

[HEyHEY]

39. Real men only need three downs

[sasquatch]

40. Aww...How cute is that, the Canadians are trying to have a rivalry

[JVS]

42. I thought Montreal vs. Toronto was the big rivalry there.

[HEyHEY]

47. not in football

[Parrcrow]

52. Toronto Argonauts vs Hamilton Tiger-Cats

[HEyHEY]

48. You guys are just jealous that we have a better game

[JVS]

50. And you got "Rocket" Ismael!

:cry:

[sasquatch]

51. Sure...you just keep telling yourself that

While your best players couldn't even make it on the punt team of the Arizona Cardinals.

[HEyHEY]

56. That's means fuck all

CFL games are higher scoring and more action packed.. that's a fact... see the grey cup this year? NFL would never be able to produce such a game

[HEyHEY]

57. By the way

A lot of NFL players have gone through the CFL

[no name no slogan]

43. Roughriders vs Rough Riders

Too bad one of them packed it in a few years back.

Damn, CFL. You'd think that you wouldn't run out of good names after eight teams. :crazy:

[JVS]

45. Ah yes. The battle to see which riders were indeed rough was...

always a good rivalry

[HEyHEY]

49. THere's just one rr now

[charlie and algernon]

38. niners-packers of the 1990s

That was a short-lived rivalry, but it was intense, especially when they met in playoff or games with playoff implications nearly every year.

[LeftyMom]

54. That was fun while it lasted

Drunken Cheeseheads (okay, so that's redundant) definitely made games at the 'stick more amusing.

[argyl]

62. Cowboys/Niners in the 90s was quite intense.They played in three straight

NFC Championship games. Cowboys won the first two and the Niners won the last. Both teams went on to win the Super Bowl.

There was almost a fourth straight matchup for the NFC title but the Packers beat the Niners. After the game the Niners congratulated the Packers and then implored them to beat the Cowboys in the NFC title game..They didn't and the Cowboys went on to beat the Steelers in the Super Bowl.

The Packers did win it all the next year.Thought that Packers team was going to win at least one more but it was one and out for them.A really talented team.

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

53. Ya want to know how much I hate the Slackers?

In January 1998 when they played Denver in the Super Bowl, I stayed up all night in Northern Ireland to watch the game. When it was finally over and the Broncos had beaten the "great" Brett Favre and the Slackers, our phone rang.

Two friends of mine from Chicago were on the phone and we laughed and laughed. That particular moment will always rate with me as one of the greatest in NFL history!!!!!

Still smiling thinking about it!! It was brilliant to see the "great Slackers" go down to defeat.

Yes Rev. Cheesehead there is a difference between cockiness and confidence and it was proven to me that night in January, 1998.

GO BEARS!!!!

[sasquatch]

59. I remeber that game, shocked the world the Broncos did that day

[Faygo Kid]

58. Lions vs. themselves?

[sasquatch]

60. They were outnumbered by Bengals fans, AT HOME!!

:wow::wtf:

[johnnie]

61. I grew up with Browns/Steelers

At one time it was a huge rivalry.

I went ot a Monday Night Football game back in the early 80s with these two teams playing. I have never seen so many fights in such a short time in one place. It was wild.

[Robeson]

63. Vikings vs. Refs.....

...It's been that way since that ref caught a bottle on his head after Drew Pearson's offensive pass interference, that wasn't called, and cost Minnesota a trip to the Super Bowl...