Only Eight Days Until the 107th Army-Navy Game

It is the finest rivalry in all of sports. More the Ohio State-Michigan, greater the Red Sox Yankees, and more prevalent then Cowboys-Redskins. The Army-Navy game is, undoubtedly, the premier rivalry in all of American sports, and college football's most sacred and storied of events. It is an absolutely American rivalry, a single event which transcends the bonds of records, personnel, and national importance, and embraces a rich historical tradition as patriotic as the Stars and Stripes themselves. It is, as the adage goes, much more then game. Surely I don't need to harp on the meaning of this game to our deployed soldiers, seamen, and marines worldwide, and surely I don't need to remind our readers that the bonds formed on the gridiron often translate to the battlefield. I am sure our readers know of the history of the game as well, as this back-and-forth rivalry has been, well, back-and-forth throughout the 107 years of its existence. This year, Navy (8-3), which won the "First to Fifty" contest of a year ago, will clash with a 3-8 Army squad which has seen better days. But this is not to dissuade the average fan from thinking any less of this game, which, as it does every year, will decide the success or failure of the teams involved. The following is an outstanding video produced by "PhatPhelix" documenting the history of the game as it led up to last year's contest, and an fine place to start the chronicling of the 107th Army-Navy Game.