What happened to Ateneo-La Salle?

I remember the time when college was starting. La Salle was first to start so after their orientation, the jubilee chatroom in irc would get flooded with La Salle chants. A couple of weeks later, it would be Ateneo's turn after the orientation seminar. The first few weeks of conversation between us batchmates would consist of La Salle this and Ateneo that. I almost felt sorry for anyone who studied elsewhere because they were literally missing out on the coolest and most fun rivalry that's reached sharks and jets proportions.

The UAAP would heighten the sense of rivalry as it was one of the few years that Ateneo and La Salle had almost the same talent level. After every game, Ateneans would gloat after every win and La Sallians would do the same after their win. It was the sweetest day when the Blue Eagles beat the Green Archers in three, it was when it gave every Atenean bragging rights for at least a year.

But the coolest part of the Ateneo-La Salle thing was the basketball games in our batch. Remember that? A couple of weeks after school started when everyone was bleeding green or blue, we'd have this weekly basketball games between Ateneo and La Salle with other schools spread out in the two teams. I remember the La Salle squad would consist of Doug, Les, P3 (or longhorn, my new name for him, also "Dobs" for Adobe lol), Johann, Eric, Dong with Fu and being their other member. The Ateneo squad would consist of myself, Eug, Wil, Jeff, Jeco and Alden and Odell being our other members. It was basically a game for new school prides and bragging rights.

Today, it's down to just simple needling everytime anything Ateneo or La Salle comes up. I'm not an Atenean any more and most of the La Salle students are getting ready to graduate. Still, it was very cool to look back and appreciate that time when we naive Jubileans got taken back at what real rivalries looked like. So until the next time when we're all graduates and decide to play again regularly for fun, it will remain a fun memory that hopefully will be revived.

By the way, La Salle batchmates are probably too chicken to challenge us anyway. I mean, seriously, have they seen Eugene? (lol, that was my attempt to spark up old fires heh)