[PROCON]

I know, I’ve lost lotsa FReeper bucks over the years here with Navy guys, and the sad thing is that they GLOAT :-)

[nascarnation]

Bummer.
A brief bit of internet research may have found one underlying reason.

Navy coach salary $1,700,000
Army coach salary $700,000

Not sure how the budgets of the academies work.

[Billthedrill]

...and the sad thing is that they GLOAT

My late Dad was a Colonel and a career Army man. His eldest, best, brilliant, incomparable son whose name modesty forbids me to mention chose to become a Naval officer. What the beer-fueled Army-Navy games were like at our place is fairly easy to imagine. But gloat? Never. Never once. I never, never stooped to reminding him that there really does need to be only one military service and the Navy has it all. Never did I mention that women swoon when a sailor walks by and shriek with horror at the sight of an Army goof muttering "hay foot, straw foot..." (OK, you gotta be REALLY old to remember that one but he told me about it). Gloat? Perish the thought!

I am, of course neutral in the matter. Go Middies!

[ConorMacNessa]

We gloat? No, Army Bro - we simply express our delight at our annual victory over the vaunted Black Knights of the Hudson with unmitigated enthusiasm.

But on a serious note, this is truly the only game in the season that matters for either of our teams - Army-Navy IS the season.

I don't know about the Army, but in Navy's locker room there are team pictures of the teams from all of the years Navy won. You don't beat Army, you don't make the wall. I went to law school with a Navy football grad who started at defensive guard all three years he was eligible. Navy did not beat Army in those years - I believe it was '64-'66 - and he never made it onto the wall.

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