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Oh Happy Day! - Part 2

Posted On October 1, 2007 12:48 PM By Phil in Navy Football,College Football

While I posted an entry on why today was a happy day for one reason, it is for another. On Saturday, I got to witness for the 5th straight year, Navy's football team defeat Air Force and gain the inside track on the Commander-In-Chief's trophy. It was a close game, but Navy pulled away in the 4th quarter. Army/Navy is the rivalry that gets all the headlines, but I think Navy(or Army)/Air Force is the more heated and intense. A few of the Navy players agreed, saying last week playing Army was like playing against your brother, you want to win but there is respect. Playing against AF, you just want to win no matter what. It probably has to do with a "elitist" type attitude prevalent at Army and Navy and AF is that country club out west, also the fact that AF has won a lot more in football than either school since its inception. On the other hand, I couldn't believe some of the quotes from the coach and players from AF leading up to the game, about how Navy was just another team on the schedule and that there was less emphasis on the CIC trophy. Yeah, right. Rivals are Rivals, trophy games are trophy games, and they all mean more than conference games.

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