It began Tuesday with New Mexico State winning in volleyball. On Saturday, host New Mexico and NMSU play football, for the 106th time.
It’s Rivalry Week.
From this corner, it always has been a dissatisfying cliché that suggests any group of fans are born that way, that this group bleeds Cherry, the other Crimson. If that really were true, a few of them occasionally have had to bleed out and undergo transfusions.
For example, this week the Journal spoke to five people prominently and currently involved in New Mexico or New Mexico State athletics, each of whom has been on the other side.