Briggs: Imagine if the Toledo-BG rivalry didn't exist

Imagine a world without water coolers.

A world in which a Toledo fan could coolly rock an orange blazer at an alumni tailgate.

Or a Bowling Green booster could without irony eat blueberries from a glass bowl.

Or I-75 was just a road and not an autumn warpath.

Imagine a world in which the Toledo-Bowling Green rivalry did not exist.

In fact, it requires no imagination at all. Only a fun trip back through the archives.

As we prepare to gather Saturday for the 100th anniversary of the first football game between these feuding neighbors, let us savor the day.

Because that alternate universe — as our wisest generation of readers know — was once very much a reality, the great rivalry nearly ending before…