Revive the old Crispa-Toyota rivalry

Thirty five years following the disbandment of Crispa and Toyota, principal actors in the bitterest rivalry in the Philippine Basketball Association, the country’s and Asia’s first professional basketball league has been in need of teams that can provide the “dog eat dog” kind of animosity the Redmanizers and the Comets dished out in their 10-year battle for supremacy in the sport their countrymen learned to love most.

Players of both teams remained under the aegis of the league for sometime, but the animosity and enmity among them that made the league what it is today or what it was for several years after the Crispa-Toyota feud had all gone although fans interest shifted to Ginebra San Miguel, simply because its head, former Toyota himself Robert “Sonny” Jaworski or “Jawo” or “Big J” or whatever had invented the “do or die” attitude other teams have been trying emulate.