title: Love Thy Rival: What Sports' Greatest Rivalries Teach Us About Loving Our Enemies
author:  Chad Gibbs 
description: Chad Gibbs is the best-selling (okay, regional best-selling) author of God & Football: Faith and Fanaticism in the SEC. He has written for the Washington Post, CNN.com, and RELEVANT, and has made multiple (okay, two) appearances on ESPN's Outside the Lines. Gibbs lives in Alabama with his wife and two dogs, Harper and Bob Vance.
zlib_text: Belgrade to Buenos Aires –
  
  Football rivalries on a very tight budget
  
  By
  
  Lee Colvin
  
    
    
  
  Copyright © 2019 Lee Colvin
  
    
    
    
  
  KINDLE edition
  
    
    
  
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  thereof in any form. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted,
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  **Introduction**
  
    
    
  
  What do football rivalries mean to you? Do you wake up on the day of the game
  against your rivals with a weird feeling inside you? Do you have the horrible
  fear inside of getting beat? Well, that’s what these games do to us all. No
  matter how old I get, I still get these feelings in the build-up to a match.
  
  I’ve travelled to a few places to watch these games and have witnessed a lot
  of passion, hatred