You're just mad about your Warriors...
I'm not mad at anything.
Seriously though, everyone has answered the question of whether or not rivalries are dead but what bout my second question? With todays sports economics is it possible for new teams to develop rivalries such as the Yankees/Red Sox?
My feelings are that the rivalries that exist are only because they were started by the players long ago and the fans rallied behind their own players. When the players retire and the game moves on the fans don't forget and the rivalry continues. Without the players hating each other today how is it possible for new rivalries to being?
You aren't mad about losing your best player? What the hell kind of fan are you?
The Jaguars have a good rivalry developing with the Colts, it's been a little one sided but it's usually at least a close game. Tough division, every game counts and we play them twice a year. It's not Sox-Yankees but they haven't been playing each other that long. The Jags started in '95 (I think), then the divisions were re-aligned in 2000, or 2002, or somewhere near there.
Colts-Patriots used to be division rivals but it didn't really heat up until they kept meeting in the playoffs and that was also fairly recently.
I'd say all it takes is a few years of meeting each other in games that count for something and then you've got a big rivalry where now any game with that team counts.
