There was a time not too long ago that the folks at Our Daily Bears and this here site did not get along. It was rare that we exchanged Q&As, visited each other’s podcasts, or even followed each other on twitter. Those were the salad days of this often raucous rivalry, back when Gary Patterson and that other guy pulled no punches in saying how they felt about each other.
But the vitriol has cooled some off the field; GP seemed to genuinely like Matt Rhule and certainly respects the hell out of Dave Aranda — and while this game still certainly means something more for the players on both sides, the fanbases get along better and share more mutual respect than outright hatred than ever (though they still want the win, obviously, and will rub in in their faces forevermore).