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Football Feuds: The Greatest College Football Rivalries
College football has some of the most rabid fans, and lunatic emotions, in sports. The Greatest College Football Rivalries uses, along with fans' passion, a gauge devised by longtime sportswriters Ken Rappoport and Barry the "hate rate." How bitter is the rivalry? Take for example Texas–Texas A&M, or Michigan–Ohio State. Which conflict is more heated? The intensity generated by these rivalries remains at the highest level possible in such longtime feuds between Army and Navy, California and Stamford, Florida State and Miami--and many, many more. This is a must-read for the millions of die-hard college football fans who flock to stadiums across the country every fall.
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210 pages, Paperback
First published September 1, 2007
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May 5, 2014
It's probably obvious that if you aren't a college football fan, or at least a football fan, this book will have little to no value to you. If you are the least bit a fan of college or professional North American football, though, you should enjoy this book. There's a lot of cool and fascinating history, plus some awesome stories. What fans will do and have done for their favorite college football team may shock you a bit, but will certainly make you laugh.
I appreciate, too, that the rivalries weren't all selected from top-tier programs. I-AA and Divisions II and III are represented. Some fans of top-tier programs might feel shafted, but if you're a fan of the sport you'll know that a good rivalry doesn't need to include USC or Notre Dame, as magical as that rivalry may be.
One frustration: hardly anyone reading this book will care other than me, but the writing is a little poor. Rappoport and Wilner seem to have just written large chunks of text and then broken the text into paragraphs at regular intervals, without caring so much about whether there is actual cause for new paragraph. The sentences are all rather plain, simple, and regular, to the point that it can grow boring. Again, I'll probably be the only person who is disappointed by the writing, but it could have been better.
I appreciate, too, that the rivalries weren't all selected from top-tier programs. I-AA and Divisions II and III are represented. Some fans of top-tier programs might feel shafted, but if you're a fan of the sport you'll know that a good rivalry doesn't need to include USC or Notre Dame, as magical as that rivalry may be.
One frustration: hardly anyone reading this book will care other than me, but the writing is a little poor. Rappoport and Wilner seem to have just written large chunks of text and then broken the text into paragraphs at regular intervals, without caring so much about whether there is actual cause for new paragraph. The sentences are all rather plain, simple, and regular, to the point that it can grow boring. Again, I'll probably be the only person who is disappointed by the writing, but it could have been better.
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