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Colly Wolly · 09-05-2006, 03:47 AM

I just got done watching the FSU Miami game and had to post something. This looks like a really classy rivalry. FSU-Miami has got to be one of the more intense rivalries in the nation (maybe not the most intense, but you get my point...). At the end of the game, the cameras showed a bunch of FSU and Miami players intermingled, on one knee, looked like they were saying some kind of post-game prayer together. Even the fans in the stands seemed pretty classy and tame after the game - FSU and Miami fans right next to each other clapping. It just felt good watching it.

I dont know, maybe its cause I have been on the losing end of it for the last four years, but why cant our rivalry be more like this? Every year you see pics in the paper of fights in the stands, stories of people getting beer thrown on them, etc. Seems like in general immaturity reigns over sportsmanship in the Holy War rivalry for both players and fans.

Thoughts?

09-05-2006, 03:47 AM	#1
Colly Wolly Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 1,281	Level of class in our rivalry I just got done watching the FSU Miami game and had to post something. This looks like a really classy rivalry. FSU-Miami has got to be one of the more intense rivalries in the nation (maybe not the most intense, but you get my point...). At the end of the game, the cameras showed a bunch of FSU and Miami players intermingled, on one knee, looked like they were saying some kind of post-game prayer together. Even the fans in the stands seemed pretty classy and tame after the game - FSU and Miami fans right next to each other clapping. It just felt good watching it. I dont know, maybe its cause I have been on the losing end of it for the last four years, but why cant our rivalry be more like this? Every year you see pics in the paper of fights in the stands, stories of people getting beer thrown on them, etc. Seems like in general immaturity reigns over sportsmanship in the Holy War rivalry for both players and fans. Thoughts?