Rivalry: Green Bay Packers Vs. Boston Red

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So I guess the only way to describe this is like the rivalry there is between the Green Bay Packers and the Chicago Bears, or the Los Angeles Lakers and the Boston Celtics, but it definitely has the animosity of the New York Yankees and the Boston Red sox. For a multitude of reasons both of my grandmothers do not like each other, like not even a little. They can’t even say the others name without a look of disgust coming across their face. My grandmothers had honestly fought about everything, whose children are better and being alive, whose opinions are more important, whose beliefs are the right ones, they even fought over my siblings and myself. For many years of my life I would go back and forth between the two of them and every time I

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