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re: The annual sporting event involving a football that dare not speak its name and a digression into the sportsmanship of wasting time in nonproductive activity

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@Maurits

That is not really true.  While people obviously refer to any important matchup as "the big game", that is not used as a name for the game in the way it is for Cal-Stanford.  The UW-WSU game is called the Apple Cup.  The USC-UCLA game is occasionally referred to as the Battle for LA or Crosstown Battle, but is usually just called the USC-UCLA game.  Other games that have names include Florida-Georgia, "The world's largest outdoor cocktail party" (commonly shortened to The cocktail party"); Harvard-Yale, "The Game"; Georgia-Georgia Tech "Clean Old-fashioned hat"; Utah-BYU, "The Holy War"; etc.


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