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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.