What is the greatest sports rivalry of all time in your opinion?

Sooners vs Longhorns is a bigger rivalry than Sooners vs. Cowboys

I'm a Canadiens fan and I call tell you the Canadiens vs. Bruins rivalry is much bigger.

Tough to name just one.So in random order:

Real Madrid vs. FC Barcelona

Argentina vs. Brazil

Redskins vs. Cowboys

Yankees vs. Red Sox

Ohio St. vs. Michigan

North Carolina vs. Duke

Also lately: Steelers vs. Ravens

So many good ones it's hard to pick just one. UGA/Auburn the souths oldest rivalry. Noles/Fla an Noles/Canes great too.

Florida/UGA, FSU/Florida, FSU/Miami

The biggest rivalry though is Jaguars/Everyone. Teams/fans get jealous of the success the Jags have had, so there's naturally some bitterness and hate whenever someone's team plays them. #swaguars

I would have to go with Ali vs. Frazier or Lakers vs. Celtics.

I picked Packers/Bears

But also Cowboys/Redskins and Lakers/Celtics

It's all subjective brah. But I voted Boys - skins.

No Wings Vs. Avalanche option? Have we all forgotten the EPIC 97 brawl?

good point!

Army Navy. This one is not debatable, there is no bigger rivalry.

lol the fact that osu is on here is a joke.

Anyway my top 5 in no particular order would be

Texas vs OU
Duke vs NC
Army vs Navy
Bama vs Auburn
Boys vs Skins

Are guys joking? Handegg? It's Chelsea vs Manchester United, Chelse vs Arsenal, Barcelona vs Real Madrid.

Better than eggfoot brah that game boring as hell to watch.

Some of these rivalries are given too much credit for length of time. And doesn't take into account big games. For instance I think 70s Raiders v Steelers is a more compelling rivalry than Packers v Bears. Yes the history is so long on the latter, but the former has so many historically big games(the Packers have played bigger games against the Cowboys) when all the marbles were on the line. At least NFL wise Cowboys v 49ers, Patriots v Colts were all more interesting to. Short lived and arguably not as nasty among the fanbase(though from what I hear 70s Raiders v Steelers). At least with the NFL rivalries, the regular season stuff is fine and all, but it's the big playoff centric rivalries that are more impressive at least that's the way I look at it.

Either way I'm picking Yankees v Red Sox. You have the history, you have the bad blood between fans, you have the big games countless playoff games, and yes at a certain point it was gloriously one sides as one side won all the big games, and the other shittier side kept losing. But then sadness happened and the world was given the 2nd worst day in the history of sports as those shitstains from Boston made one of Baseball's most awful comebacks. Thus officially evening the odds(spiritually at least), and then allowing those filthy, disgusting, bottom feeding shit stains on the fabric of humanity Boston fans to actually talk up to glorious New York. History, big games, bad blood, and oh yeah a shit ton of hall of famers to boot.

The Glorious New York Yankees and the Boston Shit Sox

Your country must have weird ass shaped eggs.

@jg4xchamp: Then you have those New York Yankees who are old enough to be in a retirement home. The fans who bring up championships before they were even born. And a city that has a ghetto walking distance from the UN headquarters.

WTF American football, great rivalries? LMFAO. Spurs and Arsenal is the best but I'm a Tottenham fan so I'm biased.

Lakers and Boston rivalry

Barcelona vs Real Madrid

Rangers vs Celtic(seriously,I can't believe I am the first one to bring this up)

Boca vs River

Inter vs Juve

Partizan vs Red Star

lmfao Spurs? Team is irrelevant. THEY STINK!

On the brink of Champions League qualification but yeah sure, whatever. We just played the greatest football in the world 2 seasons ago, had some incredible world class players at the club like Luka Modric, Gareth Bale, Rafael Van Der Vaart. Have some of the greatest young talents in football like Erik Lamela and Christian Eriksen. :D

@hrst1: Can someone tell me how a football is shaped like an egg? I can't take soccer fans seriously.

as for the greatest rivalry I would say Lakers and Celtics and Army and Navy

LMFAO. Best football in world? LOL tell me what did you win then? Yeah jack shit. Guess what? Now you have none of those players. Why? Oh because they wanted to win.

@Master_Live: Ali and Frazier.

There is no contest.

you said sports rivalry this is pretty much limited to American gridiron football and that is only a very tiny portion of the sporting world. the topic is DAMN misleading.

@iowastate: shut up jim

^Get out of here with that Spurs shit as well.

I am greatly fan of North Carolina Tar Heels & also love the country.

Speaking strictly of American sports, I would go with Yankees-Red Sox, with Lakers Celtics coming in right behind them. So many great ones, though.

I feel like college b ball rivalries were better when kids stayed longer in school. It bred more contempt.

Who freakin cares.

That's the christmas spirit brah.

St. Louis Cardinals vs. Chicago Cubs
St. Louis Blues vs. Chicago Blackhawks

Sox-Yanks, they've done it in the playoffs, big cities big payrolls.

Hahaha when was the last time those teams won anything? Can a rivalry really be that big when London has like 10 teams itself.......and their rivals are from the same city ?? WTF

Real Madrid Vs Barcelona

Man Utd vs Liverpool

New York Yankees vs. Boston Red Sox the greatest sports rivalry of all time in my opinion.

Montreal Canadians and Boston Bruins definitely have a pretty big rivalry. Every game is physical and intense, not to mention some matches that just went overboard.

LOL. That ain't real rivalries. No football (soccer in your language) matches hahaha.

Google for these ones:

Feyenoord - Ajax

River Plate - Boca Juniors

Galatasaray - Fenerbahçe

PAOK - Aris

Olympiakos - Panathinaikos

Crvena Zvezda - Partizan

Dinamo Zagreb - Crvena Zvezda

Hajduk Split - Dinamo Zagreb

Celtic - Glasgow Rangers

Millwall - West Ham United

Schalke '04 - Borussia Dortmund

AC Milan - Internazionale

Napoli - Juventus

AS Roma - Lazio

Genoa - Sampdoria

Genoa - AC Milan

etc.

Packers vs Bears, nothing beats it in my opinion. Small city vs big city, so much history between the two, and two of the most successful and oldest franchises in the NFL.

Madrid vs Barca

Bears vs Packers

Sounders vs Timbers

Kings vs Canucks

Dodgers vs Giants

Lakers vs Celtics

IMO

Barcelona vs Madrid, Ali vs Frazier, Nadal vs Federer and Liverpool vs United

Boxing:

• Louis vs Schmeling
• Ali vs Frazier
• Ali vs Norton
• Pacman vs Marquez

Football:

• Real Madrid vs Barcelona
• Man U vs Liverpool
• Man U vs Arsenal

The Cowboys and any other NFL team haha.

The Red River Rivalry is another big one.

Some european clubs that compete in multiple sports ( mainly football and Basketball ) really do hate each other

If you ever watched a game such as

Red Star vs Partizan or Olympiacos vs Panathinaikos you will know what i mean. Anything goes from flares to even serious injuries and unfortunately even deaths a few times ( thankfully thinks got a bit more civilized lately but still there is a lot of tension between such kind of games to the point where fans of the opposing team cant watch their team playing in away games against their arch rivals )

True. Football hooliganism is a big problem across Europe.

I think the biggest rivalry in English football is Manchester United-Liverpool. Chelsea is a "new" rival for Manchester United. When Abramovich acquired the team and transformed it in one of the biggest club in the world the point of view of some people could change. But, I think honestly, Liverpool never would have transferred Mata to Man. United if the Spanish player was playing for Merseyside team.

If anyone is interested in this football rivalry, you can go to Youtube and search it. There are extraordinary documentaries that shows the history of a rivalry that started before the football.

In Tennis its,federer v/s Nadal, in Cricket its India v/s Pakistan,England v/s Australia,in Football their are many

Of that list probably Yankees and Redsox, although I personally think things between the Redsox and Orioles used to be much more heated back when the O's used to be good years ago.

Most storied rivalry is probably Army vs Navy.

Steelers vs Ravens is a pretty brutal rivalry.

Sadly I am stuck in NC now so I do know that Duke / UNC has caused it share of divorces and fights so I guess it needs to get a mention.

Soccer / Football has it's share also, but I really don't follow the sport so I will say Manchester and anyone that plays them?