On Sun, 8 Feb 1998 02:57:39 -0600 Eeyore wrote:
 
> Edward N. Moller wrote:
>
> > Let's not forget the 1978 championship game, which featured BU versus BC.
> > They're located on the same street.  Nobody can match that.  BTW, the Terriers
> > won that game 5-3.
>
> Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota are all on the same street, too; we just call it
> I-94.
>
> It's a cheap line, but I use it for a reason.  We have once again been hearing
> about how the Boston atmosphere produces rivalries that can't be matched; that just
> isn't true.  I have been around both the eastern and western rivalries (though the
> scrupulous might say that I was really too young to appreciate the former) and
> BU-BC, BU-Harvard and the rest are no more intense than Michigan-Michigan State or
> Minnesota-Wisconsin, for instance.  I can go into a lot of reasons why this is
> true, but we've done most of them before.  Suffice it to say that the standard
> Boston conceit that everything takes on more importance if it happens there just
> isn't always true.
 
Who said that the Beanpot rivalries were any more intense than the Big Ten rivalries?
I just made mention of the proximity of the schools, which was how Greenie raised the
issue in the first place.  You can literally walk from BC to BU and then onto Harvard's
campus within 90 minutes time.  Driving it during rush hour would take about 15 minutes
(add another 15 minutes drive time when you add Northeastern).  That in itself
distinguishes their rivalry from any collegiate sport in any geographic region.
 
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