I had spent 8 years of my life ('89-'97) in Eagles country (Eastern PA). So I had a lot of friends who were Eagle fans. Being from Maryland originally, I immediately became a Ravens fan when we stole the Browns. So naturally, my eyes lit up with the NFL released their 1997 schedule and learned that the Ravens would be playing (in the regular season) for the first time. That turned into months of trash talk and such with the friends. Then the day finally came.. and we could not wait to see who would win....
a 10-10 tie..... totally unfulfilling.
I actually had to wait until 2008 to finally see the Ravens beat the Eagles, but the Super Bowl win that I enjoyed between those games made everything else well worth it.
I don't like ties, but agree that they're useful in lowering the chances of identical records, and relying on a list of tiebreaking scenarios.