[NU Sports] Buckeyes-Trojans

[Beamsley, Jeff]

What's wrong with rivalry?

I suggest that it is part of the competitive nature of sport to try to
demonize those who dominate.  

It is also a fairly natural reaction of the dominant to marginalize
those who to aspire to change the pecking order.

Jeff 


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From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com]
On Behalf Of Eric West
Sent: Monday, September 14, 2009 10:12 AM
To: nwu-sports at tssi.com
Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Buckeyes-Trojans

mlinhardt at netzero.com wrote:
> Why does everybody hate the buckeyes?
>   

Why ask why?

Seriously, though, for me it started in 1995. Everywhere I went, if I
happened to be wearing a Northwestern T-shirt, I couldn't go twenty feet
without being accosted by an Ohio State fan telling me how they "would
have" pulverized us. (This was in CHICAGO, mind you -- not central
Ohio.) There are a zillion more reasons, but it starts and ends there.

I might as well make my annual assertion that I view every loss by
another Big Ten team as good for us. I don't care if everyone views our
conference as weak; being part of the awful ACC in the 1990s never
seemed to hurt Florida State.


Eric West
e-west at northwestern.edu

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