SALT LAKE CITY — Do you prefer “Rivalry Week"?
I don’t mean, do you like the BYU-Utah matchup more than other games during the year, but do you like describing the state’s favorite game as “Rivalry Week” instead of “The Holy War”?
Six years ago, in an effort to promote more civility between rival fan bases, we received a companywide email that encouraged us to lose the term “The Holy War”.
It pops up all the time in both local and national media. I noticed that Yahoo couldn’t jump on it fast enough, both in their headline “Holy War between BYU and Utah tops Pac-12 marquee," and story body, “The Holy War is one of the nastiest rivalries in the country.