In the modern era, however, it has more recently been considered a significant rivalry in Gaelic games due to the increased frequency of matches between the two teams in the 21st century.
[4] The rivalry reached its greatest intensity in the 2010s for a variety of reasons: the increased frequency in which the teams competed against each other in high stakes matches, each county having what was considered to being one of their strongest ever teams, the closeness of the matches, the involvement of high-profile players such as Bernard Brogan, Diarmuid Connolly and Philly McMahon for Dublin and Cillian O'Connor, Lee Keegan and Aidan O'Shea for Mayo, and the controversial incidents that have occurred in these matches.
There was controversy during the warm-up before the game when Mayo defied tradition by warming-up at the Hill 16 end of Croke Park.
Dublin started the second half strong with a goal by Jason Sherlock within 2 minutes of the restart.
Alan Brogan equalised for Dublin before the iconic winning point was kicked by Ciaran McDonald.
[9][10] Dublin and Mayo met for the first time in 6 years in the semi-final of the 2012 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship.
[13] Mayo had knocked out reigning champions Donegal in the quarter-final by trouncing them by 16 points while Dublin under new manager Jim Gavin reached the final be overcoming Kerry in a classic semi-final.
A strong start to the second half by Dublin led to them leading by 3 points with 20 minutes to go before a goal by Andy Moran levelled the match.
In a reversal of last year's match, Dublin resorted to fouling in order to defend their lead, meaning it was now their turn to be accused of cynicism.
Stephen Cluxton missed a long range free kick which would have won it for Dublin and the match ended in a draw.
The rate of scoring slowed down in the second half and a strong start by Mayo meant that they led by 1-12 to 0-11 with just over 15 minutes to go.
[23] Mayo started the final stronger and went 2 points up early on but conceded two own goals in the first half to allow Dublin to lead.
Like many Dublin-Mayo matches, there were a number of off the ball incidents and the personal duel between Diarmuid Connolly and Lee Keegan had many flashpoints.
In the build up to the replay a number of ex-Dublin players spoke in the media highlighting what they felt was the illegal way Lee Keegan was marking Diarmuid Connolly.
Ger Brennan, Paul Clarke and Alan Brogan all spoke about the need for the officials to be watchful of Keegan.
[28] In the aftermath of the match, Mayo manager Stephen Rochford would also accuse Dublin of an orchestrated media campaign against Keegan.
On the stroke of half time there would be a scuffle between a number of players from both sides leading to Diarmuid Connolly, Donal Vaughan and John Small all being yellow carded.
By this stage both Lee Keegan and Jonny Cooper had already received a black card each earlier in the match.
Hennelly was black carded as a result of the foul and Connolly converted the penalty to give Dublin a 3 point lead.
Dublin easily won the Leinster Championship and played five matches in total to reach the final with their smallest winning margin being 9 points.
Within 90 seconds of the match starting, Dublin took a definitive lead as Con O'Callaghan scored a goal when he ran at the Mayo defence before shooting low along the ground to the corner of the net at the Hill 16 end.
Lee Keegan controversially threw a GPS device at Rock as he took the free, yet the Dubliner was undeterred and converted.
[34] Mayo failed to regain possession from the resulting kick-out and Dublin held on to win a third consecutive All-Ireland which lead to calls that they were one of the greatest teams of all time.
[41] Dublin went into the semi-final as pre-match favourites however a strong start by Mayo led to them leading at the break by 0-8 to 0-6.
Dublin however upped their game in the second half and scored 2-6 without reply within 15 minutes of the restart to lead by 10 points.
Dublin scored another point while Mayo scored 4 more points to leave it as 0-17 0-14 and Mayo had bought the 6 year reign of Dublin as All-Ireland Champions to an end, however they once again failed to win in the final, meaning the result is largely forgotten.
Dublin took over the game in the early stages of the second half with a flurry of scores, and ultimately ran out 2-17 to 0-11 winners.