Or vice-versa: college football rivalries can exist because states hate each

Jan 18, 2020
8:18:46am

chilango All-American

other. For instance, Michigan and Ohio fought a war before either had a football team. Kansas and Missouri’s hatred of each other dates back to the Bleeding Kansas civil war over slavery, in the run-up to the US Civil War. And so on.

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The state(s) your state doesn’t like.

AtomicHamster GlowInTheDark

1/17/20 8:27pm

Cali hates Texas? Explains why they keep crapping all over it

boogers

1/17/20 8:29pm

Texas hates Oklahoma the university, but they really do reciprocate the

LiveCoug

1/17/20 8:37pm

It's funny that Florida hates itself.

hooscoug

1/17/20 8:32pm

Florida mostly hates Miami-Dade county.

Jacare

1/18/20 4:14am

Amen. You can add broward too

BR549

1/18/20 2:22pm

So Minnesota hates Wisconsin, which hates Illinois, which hates Indiana, which

chilango

1/17/20 8:51pm

TX thinks it is the biggest state.

BYUBandfan

1/17/20 10:06pm

Alaska mocks TX because if you split AK in half, TX would be the third largest

tony

1/18/20 1:28pm

Correction, MA hates NY. Having lived there 8 years, I can attest to that.

tony

1/18/20 1:25pm

Ok, yes, I missed that. But as you said, I’m surprised there aren’t more of them

chilango

1/18/20 1:48pm

Alaskans despise Texas' fixation on size ('Everything's bigger in Texas', linked

BoiseBlueCoug

1/17/20 8:52pm

But if they split Alaska in half then Alaska would be the two worst states to live in

TEXAS

1/18/20 8:53am

My favorite is new jersey

jaredm

1/17/20 9:19pm

I love how Florida hates itself

WDaddy

1/17/20 9:41pm

Iowa vs. Nebraska? "We're the flattest state." "No, we are."

BYUBandfan

1/17/20 10:05pm

Kansas would like a word.

chilango

1/18/20 12:28am

(actually, it's Florida)

BYUBandfan

1/18/20 3:16am

I think a lot of these are driven by college football rivalries.

CrimWalCoug

1/18/20 3:06am

Or vice-versa: college football rivalries can exist because states hate each

chilango

1/18/20 8:18am

Maybe battles started the rivalry, and college football keeps it alive.

CrimWalCoug

1/18/20 9:28am

I saw a documentary about the Border War rivalry between Kansas and Missouri

BYUBandfan

1/18/20 5:48pm

Texans hate Cali's moving to Texas. Guess most do.

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