Sports Illustrated published a list of the 25 most hated teams ever in sports. The list includes college, pro and international teams. I'll tease you with three teams on the list:
9. 1989-90 UNLV basketball
16. 1974 Oakland Athletics
22. Toronto Maple Leafs
Here's the rest of the story, er, list (http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/more/07/23/most.hated.teams/index.html?eref=sihp#ixzz0v5QCCaLE).
- Fixed the URL code. - rmf67.
Here's a list of mine:
1 - Oklahoma Sooners.
2 - Texas Tech Red Raiders.
3 - New York Yankees.
4 - Texas A&M Aggies.
5 - Los Angeles Lakers.
6 - Boston Celtics (unless their playing the Lakers).
7 - New England Patriots.
8 - Philadelphia Flyers.
9 - Montreal Canadiens.
10 - Carolina Canes.
I have more but I'll stick with 10 for now. ;)
BigMatt
'98-'99 Man United only 10th? I guess there was a strong American bias in the list. Man U not only had to spend £28 million (at that point in soccer that was an awful lot), but only beat Arsenal to the league title after Arsenal's local rivals, Tottenham, who had outplayed ManUre in the first half of the season's last match, decided to not play very well and let Man U win, giving them the title. They also need perhaps the greatest FA Cup goal ever to break the 200 minute deadlock (90 minutes, plus 109 minutes of the replay) - an absolutely incredibly moment out of nowhere - to beat Arsenal in the FA Cup to get to the final and then there's the completely against the run of play winning of the Champions League final, by getting two scrappy goals when Munich were almost celebrating, to get the Treble. This team that just about did it three times is lauded as amazingly great, when other teams (including Man U teams and especially Arsenal's invincibles) have won the league so much easier, and missed out on other trophies by similar tiny margins to those which Man U won by in '99, don't get half as much praise from the media.
It's not just the hordes of glory seeking fans (even ignoring the millions in Asia), the cockiness of manager and players, it's the media bias towards them that makes them (Man U in general, not just the treble winning team) loathed all across England and when they lose. It's often the one thing that brings fans of two teams who don't like each, but don't have a fierce rivalry together. Leeds (who are high up on the hate list themselves) beating them in the FA Cup, at Old Trafford, this year made nearly every soccer fan that wasn't cheering on Man U be a lot happier for a couple of days.
Quote from: BigMatt on July 31, 2010, 04:22:21 PM
Here's a list of mine:
1 - Oklahoma Sooners.
I'll agree with you there! Anyone who destroys the traffic flow on I-35 on a regular basis for no important reason needs to not exist!
Quote from: BigMatt on July 31, 2010, 04:22:21 PM
Here's a list of mine:
1 - Oklahoma Sooners.
2 - Texas Tech Red Raiders.
3 - New York Yankees.
4 - Texas A&M Aggies.
5 - Los Angeles Lakers.
6 - Boston Celtics (unless their playing the Lakers).
7 - New England Patriots.
8 - Philadelphia Flyers.
9 - Montreal Canadiens.
10 - Carolina Canes.
I have more but I'll stick with 10 for now. ;)
BigMatt
I fully aggree with you on the Yankees. But if you hate the Flyers, Celtics,
Patriots, AND the Canadiens, then I hate you :-P :)
Edit: It is NEVER in bad taste to hate cheaters.
For me, here is a list of teams that I'm not a fan of
-New York Yankees (the one I hate the most, especially since they beat the Phillies in the world series)
-New York Mets
-Dallas Cowboys
-Pittsburgh everything
Quote from: golden eagle on July 31, 2010, 04:03:28 PM
9. 1989-90 UNLV basketball
I remember those bastards. I still get angry when I hear the letters U-N-L-V.
what did they do?
U-N-L-V. Haha, I had to do it.
I don't get how you can hate the Pens and the 'Boys......
BigMatt
In no particular order:
Boston Red Sox
California Anaheim LA Angels
Chicago Blackhawks
Pittsburgh Penguins (okay...I don't hate the whole team, just Crosby)
Boston Celtics
LA Lakers
New England Patriots
St. Lawrence Saints
RPI Engineers
Cornell Big Red
Here's the ones I hate:
1. Notre Dame
2. Any Chicago team
3. Any NY team
4. UMichigan
5. The Patriots
Here are my hate teams:
NFL: Green Bay Packers, NY Giants (NFC); Buffalo Bills, Pittsburgh Steelers, Oakland Raiders (AFC)
MLB: Atlanta Braves (NL and overall); Boston Red Sox, Chicago White Sox (AL)
NBA: Boston Celtics, Detroit Pistons, Sacramento Kings, Phoenix Suns
College football: Ole Miss Rebels (any sport, really), Florida State, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Nebraska
College basketball: Duke, North Carolina, Georgetown
Quote from: BigMatt on August 01, 2010, 01:25:57 AM
I don't get how you can hate the Pens and the 'Boys......
PennDOTFan's from Philly. What do you expect? ;) Pittsburgh fans hate Philly fans and vise-versa. It's only natural since we're from both sides of the state. ;)
College:
1. University of Michigan/University of North Carolina
2. University of Virginia
3. University of Southern California
4. University of Oklahoma
5. Georgetown University
6. University of Florida
7. Louisiana State University
8. University of Wisconsin
9. University of Connecticut
10. University of Utah (I don't know why, I just do)
Professional
1. Boston Red Sox
2. Dallas Cowboys
3. New England Patriots
4. Cleveland Browns
5. Baltimore Ravens
6. Los Angeles Angels
7. Philadelphia Phillies
8. Philadelphia Flyers/New Jersey Devils/New York Rangers
9. Washington Capitals/Detroit Red Wings
10. The NBA
1. New York Mets(obviously I'm a Braves fan)
2. Notre Dame Fighting Irish(mostly because of Lou Holtz)
3. New England Patriots
4. Alabama Crimson Tide
5. Chicago Bears
6. Oklahoma Sooners
7. Philadelphia Phillies(especially since they just got Oswalt even though the Nationals beat him Friday)
8. New York Yankees
9. USC Trojans
10. Washington Redskins(because I'm always forced to watch them lose)
11. Virginia Cavaliers(I have to, I'm a Hokie, I don't hate them as much as I should though)
1. Boston Red Sox
and that's about it. Although I can't say I'm fond of the LA Angels, or even the Tampa Bay Rays these days. Those past few games against Tampa have been real fights, very well played and tough games.
Quote from: PennDOTFan on July 31, 2010, 10:18:48 PM
Edit: It is NEVER in bad taste to hate cheaters.
Okay okay, they cheated. I only said that as a joke, and mostly because I am a fan of them, since my family is from the area and I go up there so much...
Quote from: rickmastfan67 on August 01, 2010, 10:13:56 AM
Quote from: BigMatt on August 01, 2010, 01:25:57 AM
I don't get how you can hate the Pens and the 'Boys......
PennDOTFan's from Philly. What do you expect? ;) Pittsburgh fans hate Philly fans and vise-versa. It's only natural since we're from both sides of the state. ;)
Heh, that pretty much sums it up!
Quote from: golden eagle on August 01, 2010, 10:12:40 AM
College football: Ole Miss Rebels (any sport, really), Florida State, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Nebraska
Hey! That's not very nice! ;-)
I definitely agree about Notre Dame though. They're always at the top of my hated teams list. I'd put Texas, Florida and USC on my list too.
1. University of Michigan (grew up an Ohio State fan)
2. Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim (their fans are possibly the least educated ever)
3. Boston Red Sox (their fanbase became total asswagons after 2004, enough to make a team I liked a little a team I hate- even making me root for the Yankees over them)
4. Notre Dame (goes without saying)
5. TCU (the Boise State fan in me dislikes those Horned Frogs)
6. Washington Nationals (Vive Les Expos!)
College sports (no order):
Duke
North Carolina
Tennessee
Louisville
Eastern Kentucky
Kansas
I don't follow pro sports like I used to but I list the following, mostly pro football teams:
Tennessee Titans (they will always be the Houston Oilers)
Baltimore Ravens (they will always be the original Cleveland Browns)
Cleveland Browns
Pittsburgh Steelers
Washington Redskins
Dallas Cowboys
San Francisco 49ers (beat the Bengals both times the Bengals went to the Super Bowl)
I don't watch or follow baseball anymore after the 1994 players' strike, but here are the teams I hate(d):
Atlanta Braves (back when WTBS was Channel 17 in Atlanta and was the first national superstation and they broadcasted all the Braves games, they completely destroyed the concept of rooting for your hometown or regional team. This was always Reds country but by the late 1980s there were as many Braves fans around here as Reds fans, and that's the fault of Ted Turner's superstation)
Los Angeles Dodgers
Baltimore Orioles
Oakland A's
New York Yankees
The NY Mets were on that list until my cousin, Doug Flynn got traded from the Reds to the Mets in the Tom Seaver deal. Then I started wearing a Mets hat around.
I don't watch the NBA and I'm not a hockey fan at all so I plead indifference to those sports.
NASCAR teams:
Jeff Gordon
Jimmie Johnson
My most disliked teams
1. Dork.....errr, Duke (listening to Dukie V sing their praises every winter has me reaching for the MUTE button)
2. New York Yankees
3. LA Lakers (Proof the NBA is more rigged than pro wrestling....how can this team miss the playoffs ONLY 8 times in the 64 seasons the NBA has been around without SOME help is beyond me)
4. Dallas Cryboys....err, Cowboys
5. Georgetown Hoyas
6. North Carolina basketball
7. University of Michigan (Although not being a Buckeye fan may cause some confusion, my dislike for the Weasels stems from the early 90s basketball program )
8.
Being a fan of the Bengals and Reds, i am certain you are surprised that neither the St L Cardinals nor the Steelers show up on my list...yes they are division rivals, and maybe SHOULD be hated, but i respect them instead, for their accomplishments on the field over the last several years....
Quote from: PennDOTFan on July 31, 2010, 10:18:48 PMFor me, here is a list of teams that I'm not a fan of
-Pittsburgh everything
I can understand the other two professional teams, but you even hate the Pirates? You should like them since that is an automatic win for the Phillies.
What's with all the hatred for the Sooners? :-P
OK, so Scott5114 has a good point...
- Chicago Bears
- Minnesota Viqueens
- Chicago Cuddlies (Cubs)
- New England Patriots*
- The NBA (what a bunch of selfish idiots)
- Notre Dame football - I hate a team that feels that they are so above the clouds they need NBC to look for them.
- Any BCS Football team - the exhibition season means nothing - still I hate Notre Dame above them all because they bought their way in.
Quote from: PAHighways on August 01, 2010, 10:27:25 PM
Quote from: PennDOTFan on July 31, 2010, 10:18:48 PMFor me, here is a list of teams that I'm not a fan of
-Pittsburgh everything
I can understand the other two professional teams, but you even hate the Pirates? You should like them since that is an automatic win for the Phillies.
The Cubs don't see it that way. They beat the Phillies 3 out of 4 the other week but they haven't beat the Pirates very often at all this year.
Specific reasons:
Duke (winning too often*, and Dick Vitale, and being from the ACC. OK, these guys are classy but I always root against them)
Yankees (winning too often*, and being from New York)
Lakers (Hollywood trashtalking primadonna showboaters; the obnoxious party guest who won't take a hint and GTFO)
Warriors (they won a championship so long ago it conflicts with the Bible's assertion about the age of the universe. They've been terrible for so long. And local sports radio gives them saturation coverage. Any time I turn on the radio between October and July it's Warriors, Warriors, Warriors. Somebody, please relocate this team.)
Colts (because of Peyton Manning... guy has rubbed me the wrong way since day 1. That's figuratively, by the way)
NY Giants (another Manning? Who asked for that? Also, the New York thing)
That team in the south that used to be the Hartford Whalers (rage rage rage rage rage)
The Taliban Infidel-Killers (they slaughter infidels and are constantly pushing for worldwide sharia law, extermination of all other religions, and brutal mistreatment of women and children. Though I do root for them when they're playing the Yankees)
* but a grudging respect. Except for the Lakers
I'm glad to see the hate for Notre Dame! As a Purdue alum, it makes me happy to know that the rest of the country hates them just as strongly!
Quote from: Master son on August 01, 2010, 10:52:36 PM
- Chicago Bears
- Minnesota Viqueens
- Chicago Cuddlies (Cubs)
- New England Patriots*
- The NBA (what a bunch of selfish idiots)
- Notre Dame football - I hate a team that feels that they are so above the clouds they need NBC to look for them.
- Any BCS Football team - the exhibition season means nothing - still I hate Notre Dame above them all because they bought their way in.
Lest I forget the Yankees, Cowboys, Red Sox, - any team that wins by buying other team's players.
I don't think it's possible for hating a team that wins to much. Except for the Yankees.... But what colleges do you like if Notre Dame wins to much?? You'd be better of hating my team (Texas ;)) for wining to much. Or 'bama, or a team like that. I don't care about small teams like Notre Dame and whatnot. I like Duke, and North Carolina. Those are pretty much the only non-Texas college teams I like.
I also hate Iowa State, Abiline Christian Univ. (anyone even heard of that one?) I pretty much hate any college in Texas other than: Texas ;),Angelo State Univ. (of course), Stephan F. Austin State Univ., TCU, and UTSA.
Go Horns, RAMS, Lumberjacks, Horned Frogs, and Roadrunners!
BigMatt
Roving franchises:
#1 The Indianapolis Colts - I'll never forget waking up that morning in Baltimore and hearing the Colts had left in the middle of the night. (Talks right before then had supposedly been making progress.)
#2 Baltimore Ravens - Ever since the Colts left I wanted to see them get a team, but not the Browns! But, they also got Art Model and his family. But, they still won a %&$**##* Super Bowl! (and yes I was living and working in Northeast Ohio when this happened.)
#3 Tennessee Titans - Yes, I hate the local team! If they had been an expansion franchise, I'd probably root for them some.
There are many other teams that have moved in the last 30 years, but those are the ones on the top of my list.
Colleges:
1) Tennessee - I used to like the song Rocky Top before moving down here. Though Pat Summit's Lady Vols basketball dynasty is the exception.
2) Ohio State and Michigan - I hated hearing about them every fall I lived in Ohio. Of course, it's even easier to dislike them now since Penn State joined the Big Ten.
General dislike:
Any New York team (especially the Yankees)
Any Pittsburgh team
The Dallas Cowboys (the cheerleaders are okay though ;-))
Chicago Bulls (leftover from Jordan era)
Boston Celtics, LA Lakers
Atlanta Braves (they get a partial pass for being Hank Aaron's team, though)
Any team from the state of North Carolina except Duke (my dad went there)
Seattle teams (don't know why, just don't like them)
The Oakland Raiders used to be on my list, but they redeemed themselves when they returned home to Oakland after their stint in LA. I still remember hearing a young Cleveland sportscaster say about the announcement, "Oakland Raiders, that sounds strange." I wanted to hurl something at the TV just then!
Quote from: PAHighways on August 01, 2010, 10:27:25 PM
Quote from: PennDOTFan on July 31, 2010, 10:18:48 PMFor me, here is a list of teams that I'm not a fan of
-Pittsburgh everything
I can understand the other two professional teams, but you even hate the Pirates? You should like them since that is an automatic win for the Phillies.
I thought of that, but as rickmastfan said, its just the general hatred for the teams across the state from you :P
Quote from: PennDOTFan on August 02, 2010, 04:45:26 PM
I thought of that, but as rickmastfan said, its just the general hatred for the teams across the state from you :P
There are, occasionally, exceptions.
Even though Bloomsburg is much close to Philly (or New York even) than Pittsburgh, most of my grade school classmates were Steelers fans. But, this was during the Steelers glory years so they hitched a ride on the band wagon.
Now, the fact that most of those Steelers fans didn't like me (for reasons that had NOTHING to do with football) is another reason I dislike that team.
Quote from: realjd on August 02, 2010, 08:15:51 AM
I'm glad to see the hate for Notre Dame! As a Purdue alum, it makes me happy to know that the rest of the country hates them just as strongly!
My dislike for Notre Dame is over how the media always seem to bow down to them and try to make them seem so much larger than life. Several instances:
1. When they played LSU in the Sugar Bowl and how the play-by-play crew (Terry Bradshaw, Jimmy Johnson, Howie Long) couldn't stop talking about them, even though LSU destroyed them that night.
2. When Beano Cook said that Ron Powlus would win two Heismans there back in the 90s. He never came close to one.
3. When Chet Coppack on WLS radio in Chicago said during Notre Dame's post-game show that should play in the Rose Bowl. This was after they were destroyed by USC in 2006.
4. When Lou Holtz said that Notre Dame would play for the national title a year or two ago. Yeah, and Charlie Weis would still be their coach if that had happened.
5. Again, just the overall crush the media has over Notre Dame. It's as if everyone else doesn't matter.
Quote from: BigMatt on August 02, 2010, 03:35:02 PM
I don't think it's possible for hating a team that wins to much.
But that's why so many teams are hated: because they win. Even though teams like the Cowboys, Steelers, Yankees, Lakers, Celtics and Notre Dame would be high on a list of beloved teams, they could conversely be on the list of the most hated teams out there. Sometimes, it goes deeper than like, like rivalries and opponents' arrogance.
I've also never understood why Notre Dame gets so much attention. Also, the Mets, the Knicks, and the Orioles. The Yankees get all kinds of attention, but they're actually performing well enough to earn it.
Quote from: agentsteel53 on August 02, 2010, 10:31:04 PM
I've also never understood why Notre Dame gets so much attention.
Probably because of all the national championships they have. That and having every home game on NBC.
QuoteI've also never understood why Notre Dame gets so much attention. Also, the Mets, the Knicks, and the Orioles. The Yankees get all kinds of attention, but they're actually performing well enough to earn it.
It's a legacy problem- Notre Dame is still a very wealthy program and used to have the success to back it up.
Quote from: golden eagle on August 02, 2010, 10:33:31 PM
Quote from: agentsteel53 on August 02, 2010, 10:31:04 PM
I've also never understood why Notre Dame gets so much attention.
Probably because of all the national championships they have. That and having every home game on NBC.
They have a lot of national championships, but most of them were a long time ago. Their last one was in 1988. Before that it was 1977. They are currently on the longest period without a national championship in their history. Any other team with their recent history wouldn't get near the attention that they do. The media still treats them as if they are relevant nationally when they aren't.
Quote from: agentsteel53 on August 02, 2010, 10:31:04 PM
I've also never understood why Notre Dame gets so much attention. Also, the Mets, the Knicks, and the Orioles. The Yankees get all kinds of attention, but they're actually performing well enough to earn it.
Notre Dame is the only school with its own television contract. Every Notre Dame game is shown on NBC. It's the only college football on NBC. If your team is playing ND, to see it you'll have to watch "Notre Dame Football on NBC". The announcers are hardly impartial. And while I don't usually like to generalize, from my experiences during the yearly ND-Purdue football game while I was in college, ND fans were by far the most arrogant and obnoxious out of all the schools we played.
Because Notre Dame isn't in a conference, every time they play a bowl game, the entire pot of money stays with them. When any other team plays, they share the money with the other conference teams. The reason that they hardly ever win a bowl game? They're a big TV draw, so they always get placed into more challenging bowl games than they should be to increase TV ratings.
The NY teams get air time because of the general media bias towards NY.
I have no clue about the Orioles.
Quote from: BigMatt on July 31, 2010, 04:22:21 PM
Here's a list of mine:
9 - Montreal Canadiens.
I have more but I'll stick with 10 for now. ;)
BigMatt
I once loved a lot the Montreal Canadiens but since the mid-1990s, how the team was menaged....I did almost a 360. I once hated a lot the Quebec Nordiques before they moved to Colorado. It sparked a good Montreal-Quebec rivalry who culminated with the Good Friday brawl of 1984! Now I miss the Nords a lot and I wish for the NHL to return to Quebec city as well as Winnipeg!
And now, I have a strange impression then the Stanley Cup might do a return to Toronto more sooner then Montreal...
Quote from: realjd on August 03, 2010, 07:53:35 AM
I have no clue about the Orioles.
also: anything Cleveland. It must just be that my favorite sportswriter (Joe Posnanski) is a Clevelander, because there is no sane reason why Cleveland should in any way be acknowledged to exist. Especially not with that awful mascot that their baseball team has.
Quote from: agentsteel53 on August 03, 2010, 10:30:15 AM
Quote from: realjd on August 03, 2010, 07:53:35 AM
I have no clue about the Orioles.
also: anything Cleveland. It must just be that my favorite sportswriter (Joe Posnanski) is a Clevelander, because there is no sane reason why Cleveland should in any way be acknowledged to exist. Especially not with that awful mascot that their baseball team has.
Jake, I agree with you about all of that, though I don't have a stance really about their mascot, other than that he represents a horrible team in a god awful city.
Quote from: algorerhythms on August 01, 2010, 10:38:20 PM
What's with all the hatred for the Sooners? :-P
Their arrogant fans, their success, their cheating...
Quote from: njroadhorse on August 03, 2010, 03:36:42 PM
Quote from: agentsteel53 on August 03, 2010, 10:30:15 AM
also: anything Cleveland. It must just be that my favorite sportswriter (Joe Posnanski) is a Clevelander, because there is no sane reason why Cleveland should in any way be acknowledged to exist. Especially not with that awful mascot that their baseball team has.
Jake, I agree with you about all of that, though I don't have a stance really about their mascot, other than that he represents a horrible team in a god awful city.
Well, maybe Cleveland is a God-awful city. But, I'd rather live there than New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Washington, Boston, San Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles, Dallas, Atlanta, Nashville, Knoxville, Memphis and a bunch more places.
The people in that part of Ohio treated me better than people anywhere else I've been especially the cities I've mentioned.
We are going to stop bashing cities starting now. Teams, sure. Cities, no. You want to make a most hated cities thread, go for it.
^^^
Let me be clear. I am not bashing any city I listed.
I am simply stating that I'd rather live in/near Cleveland not that the other cities are bad.
I was simply defending Cleveland for unwarranted bashing by others.
Sooners - Success????? Are you on drugs?
BigMatt
Quote from: realjd on August 03, 2010, 07:53:35 AM
Notre Dame is the only school with its own television contract. Every Notre Dame game is shown on NBC. It's the only college football on NBC. If your team is playing ND, to see it you'll have to watch "Notre Dame Football on NBC". The announcers are hardly impartial.
To clarify, only home games are shown on NBC. Road games are shown on whatever network is contracted with that conference. And doesn't NBC air a bowl game?
Quote from: BigMatt on August 03, 2010, 07:25:53 PM
Sooners - Success????? Are you on drugs?
BigMatt
I've wondered many times if you were on something after reading your posts.
But anyway, yes, OU is a very successful program. 7 national championships. Your precious widdle Longhorns only have four. 5 Heisman winners. Trust me, I live in Oklahoma and I constantly hear about how great OU is. Put down the crack pipe and you might see: They're arrogant and they cheat, but they're good.
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Quote from: Scott5114 on August 04, 2010, 12:12:25 AM
WHO GIVES A SHIT
I do. Would you like to see a picture of it?
That would be far too literal!
Just to set the record straight: I'm not an OU fan. I'm a Razorback fan. I can't stand the Sooners. I'm just giving the devil his due. OU is the more successful program in the Big 12.
Quote from: bugo on August 04, 2010, 12:31:19 AM
OU is the more successful program in the Big 12.
Especially with Nebraska headed for the Big Ten! :sombrero:
(I'm not saying that Nebraska is more successful than OU or not. Just that they won't be around to argue the point much longer.)
Quote from: mightyace on August 04, 2010, 12:44:55 AM
(I'm not saying that Nebraska is more successful than OU or not. Just that they won't be around to argue the point much longer.)
Nebraska hasn't been an elite team in a few years. I'm not saying they won't be again in the future, because they probably will, but they're in the same slump as Florida State, Notre Dame, and Miami.
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Quote from: mightyace on August 04, 2010, 12:44:55 AM
(I'm not saying that Nebraska is more successful than OU or not. Just that they won't be around to argue the point much longer.)
Nebraska hasn't been an elite team in a few years. I'm not saying they won't be again in the future, because they probably will, but they're in the same slump as Florida State, Notre Dame, and Miami.
Was in a slump, but headed out of it. I wouldn't compare us with Notre Dame-they are still in a slump and don't appear to be heading out of it.
Me? In no particular order:
-Notre Dame (I'm waiting with baited breath for their NBC ratings to totally tank and their then being pretty much forced to join a conference! :clap: )
-Chicago Bears (no explanation needed)
-Chicago Baby Bears (most useless fans in baseball)
-Minnesota Vikings (Brent Favre couldn't have happened to a nicer team - and they're still no closer to a new stadium in the MStP area than they ever were)
-Dallas Cowboys (Now Jerry Jones actually has to PAY for his $1G+ pleasure palace!)
-Tennessee Titans (ABSOLUTE WORST fans in the NFL! - And I see fans of every team, living just a few blocks from the hotel where the visiting teams stay at when they play in Green Bay)
-New York Yankees (George Steinbrenner was a highly honorable PERSON, but his team is PERFECT for hating! You can BUY players, but if the chemistry isn't there, nothing else matters.)
Mike
My most hated teams?
-Colorado Avalanche (aka the Assalanche aka the Nordilanche)
-Pittsburgh Penguins (touch Sid the Kid and get a penalty BS)
-Ohio State University (need I explain?)
-University of Michigan (Go State!)
-University of Texas - Austin (rather than share, they'd rather control a massively depreciated conference)
-University of Notre Dame (bunch of primadonnas)
-Chicago Bulls (I can admire them, but I hate them at the same time)
-New York Yankees, Giants, Mets, Jets, Islanders, Rangers, Knicks, etc (it's NYC, enough said)
-Anything from California
BTW, huskeroadgeek, welcome to the Big Ten.
Quote from: Brandon on August 04, 2010, 12:38:52 PM
-Pittsburgh Penguins (touch Sid the Kid and get a penalty BS)
If that was the case, everybody on Motreal would have been in the box at the same time...
Quote from: Brandon on August 04, 2010, 12:38:52 PM
BTW, huskeroadgeek, welcome to the Big Ten.
Thanks. I and the vast majority of our fans are very excited about it.
1. That School up North.
2. Dallas Cowboys
3. Pittsburgh Steelers
4. Baltimore Ravens
5. Atlanta Braves
Aside from the usual division rival implications, I have special hate for Chicago teams. I'm specifically talking about the Bears & the Cubs. I don't care about any other Chicago teams much because I don't care about those sports. Every time the Cubs are in town, Milwaukee is flooded with these assholes from Illinois coming to visit "Wrigley North". NOTHING in sports pisses me off more than that arrogant little FIB quip. Don't let the tollgate hit your ass on the way back to your suburb, douches. No team is more deserving of such a long pennant drought.
The Bears have gotten a slight reprieve from my NFL ire lately do to the situation with Brett Farve and the Vikings. The sight of that Benedict Judas in that uniform still makes me angry.
I also have to hate those goddamn Yankees and their ridiculous payroll. It's not just that they can basically buy whoever they want and use the rest of the Majors as a farm system and have a payroll greater than like four or five teams combined, it's the arrogance about the Yankees. Oh, we're such a storied and historic franchise; we're baseball in it's glory days, everyone has to respect us, we're salt of the Earth Americana... I'm sorry, but fuck the Yankees. They bought all those championships.
You know why football is so much more popular now? Parity. Until just recently, the NFL enjoyed years of 'any given Sunday' where any team could could quite possibly beat any other team. ESPN contributes to this Yankee hate from the rest of America. I swear ESPN thinks the entire MLB consists of the Yankees and the Red Sox since it's usually one of those teams playing anytime they televise a game. Like those teams need the exposure.
I'll also mention the Cowboys since they were at the peak of their power when the Packers were on the rise in the 90's so they represented the final obstacle between us and the Super Bowl and I grew to hate them quite readily. I'm still kinda disappointed that Carolina robbed us of the chance to stomp on Dallas' nuts en route to bringing the Lombardi Trophy home.
In light of recent events and even though I don't get into the NBA much, I'm fully prepared to hate the Miami Heat for some time. Here's another clear attempt to buy a championship; something I hate in general.
I want teams to 'earn' their championships by drafting smartly and trading minor leaguers and developing that talent into the All Stars that will one day win it all. Shelling out a hundreds of millions dollars to cobble together a bunch of big money free agents is not an honorable means to the same end.
the draft (like most other socialism) rewards lazy owners who will not invest in their team and instead enjoy running a perpetually last-place operation. See: the Pirates.
as much as I dislike the Yankees (I'm a Red Sox fan - it comes with the territory), I like them infinitely more than teams like the Pirates and the Royals because they're lazy, sad-feces franchises who are making no effort whatsoever to crawl out of the cellar.
say what you will about George Steinbrenner, but he genuinely loved owning his team and saw it as a lot more than a line on the balance sheet.
as for Brett Favre - I don't hate him, I just wish he'd stop receiving coverage. The following other sports-related concepts need to go away as well: Tiger Woods, Floyd Landis, the NCAA, Rick Reilly, the RBI, and finally the entire appalling spectacle known as horse racing.
Quote from: agentsteel53 on August 05, 2010, 11:22:52 AM
the draft (like most other socialism) rewards lazy owners who will not invest in their team and instead enjoy running a perpetually last-place operation. See: the Pirates.
as much as I dislike the Yankees (I'm a Red Sox fan - it comes with the territory), I like them infinitely more than teams like the Pirates and the Royals because they're lazy, sad-feces franchises who are making no effort whatsoever to crawl out of the cellar.
say what you will about George Steinbrenner, but he genuinely loved owning his team and saw it as a lot more than a line on the balance sheet.
as for Brett Favre - I don't hate him, I just wish he'd stop receiving coverage. The following other sports-related concepts need to go away as well: Tiger Woods, Floyd Landis, the NCAA, Rick Reilly, the RBI, and finally the entire appalling spectacle known as horse racing.
If you don't "socialism" in sports, then you must be a huge fan of the college ranks then?
Quote from: osu-lsu on August 05, 2010, 11:00:48 PM
If you don't "socialism" in sports, then you must be a huge fan of the college ranks then?
no. the hypocrisy of "amateurism" is appalling.
Quote from: agentsteel53 on August 05, 2010, 11:26:02 PM
Quote from: osu-lsu on August 05, 2010, 11:00:48 PM
If you don't "socialism" in sports, then you must be a huge fan of the college ranks then?
no. the hypocrisy of "amateurism" is appalling.
But there's no "socialism." The best players go to the best teams. No helping the "lesser teams" like the "socialistic" draft does with professional teams.
Quote from: osu-lsu on August 05, 2010, 11:29:06 PM
But there's no "socialism." The best players go to the best teams. No helping the "lesser teams" like the "socialistic" draft does with professional teams.
no, there is not. there's also no socialism in space. wanna live there?
The fact remains that players are not allowed to retain agents, or openly be compensated for their services.
Quote from: agentsteel53 on August 05, 2010, 11:35:51 PM
no, there is not. there's also no socialism in space. wanna live there?
The fact remains that players are not allowed to retain agents, or openly be compensated for their services.
I was about to try to argue that they're compensated by getting an education, but I couldn't type that with a straight face!
It sounds like the only sport you would like is professional poker... every man for himself, you either figure it out or you don't! Phil Hellmuth is an ass but the only reason he got to where he is today is because he's so good at the game.
Quote from: Scott5114 on August 06, 2010, 11:49:42 AM
It sounds like the only sport you would like is professional poker... every man for himself, you either figure it out or you don't! Phil Hellmuth is an ass but the only reason he got to where he is today is because he's so good at the game.
no, having a set of rules is perfectly fine. it's rewarding lazy owners (like those that own the Pirates, Royals, Clippers, Knicks, etc) that doesn't fly with me.
speaking of the NBA draft being rigged... the NBA draft is rigged. For those that say socialism implies fairness - here, socialism implies the exact opposite of fairness. Sometimes the commissioner rigs it (1985), other times teams are purposely tanking just to get in the draft, which is a form of rigging all its own.
being rewarded to lose is antithetical to the nature of sport.
Quote from: agentsteel53 on August 06, 2010, 11:58:11 AM
being rewarded to lose is antithetical to the nature of sport.
That's one bane of NASCAR right now. The "start and park" teams. Because the purse money for 23rd place is not enough better then that for 43rd place, unsponsored or under-sponsored teams, those teams will start the race and purposely pull into the garage sometime in the first 100 laps with bogus issues like "handling" and "electrical."
It may be a good business model, but not sporting. IMHO
Quote from: huskeroadgeek on August 04, 2010, 02:33:29 PM
Quote from: Brandon on August 04, 2010, 12:38:52 PM
BTW, huskeroadgeek, welcome to the Big Ten.
Thanks. I and the vast majority of our fans are very excited about it.
Has there been any decision on whether or not Nebraska will continue to play Colorado and/or Oklahoma after they join the Big Ten? Other than that, I think the Big Ten is a good fit for the Huskers. Imagine playing the likes of Michigan, Ohio State, Penn State and Wisconsin every year. The only marquee matchups they have in the Big XII is Texas and Oklahoma.
Dallas Cowboys -- and this coming from a Texan born and raised.
The Cowboys organization can go bankrupt and fold, and I won't lose any sleep (in fact, I'd dream). I wish the Dallas/Fort Worth area can get a new NFL franchise to replace the Cowboys, then I might consider pulling for them as well.
I'm surprised the San Antonio Spurs aren't mentioned on here as the most hated ever, as I've been reading on other sports sites. Hated for all the wrong reasons too.
Quote from: golden eagle on August 06, 2010, 05:28:05 PM
Quote from: huskeroadgeek on August 04, 2010, 02:33:29 PM
Quote from: Brandon on August 04, 2010, 12:38:52 PM
BTW, huskeroadgeek, welcome to the Big Ten.
Thanks. I and the vast majority of our fans are very excited about it.
Has there been any decision on whether or not Nebraska will continue to play Colorado and/or Oklahoma after they join the Big Ten? Other than that, I think the Big Ten is a good fit for the Huskers. Imagine playing the likes of Michigan, Ohio State, Penn State and Wisconsin every year. The only marquee matchups they have in the Big XII is Texas and Oklahoma.
We won't play any of the current Big 12 teams on a regular basis. I'm sure we'll try to schedule Oklahoma at some point. A lot of our fans are still upset about the fact we haven't played Oklahoma every year since we joined the Big 12-they were our biggest rivals from the 60s through the 90s. I'm really looking forward to all of the new rivalries we will start in the Big Ten-other than Texas and Oklahoma, just about every Big Ten team we play will be more interesting than what we have in the Big 12.
^^ Actually, you guys could play Oklahoma every year (as Michigan and Michigan State play Notre Dame) in pre-conference play. It would be ironic that you could play Oklahoma more often outside of the Big 12 than inside the Big 12.
1. Yankees
2. New York Giants
3. Cowboys
4. Yankees
5. Mets
6. Braves
7. Yankees
8. Duke
9. Roger Federer
10. Yankees.
The Phils will be in first by the end of the week.
And I went to Georgetown.
Oh. I forgot: Yankees.
And Cleveland rocks. At least in June.
Quote from: Michael in Philly on August 09, 2010, 01:12:16 PM
The Phils will be in first by the end of the week.
they'd already be in first if they hadn't traded Cliff Lee. Yes, Halladay is one hell of an acquisition (especially when he breaks with traditional baseball etiquette and refuses to allow baserunners to exist, which he has done once this season) but imagine a rotation led by Halladay
and Lee.
Believe me, the topic comes up all the time here.
Quote from: Brandon on August 09, 2010, 11:38:34 AM
^^ Actually, you guys could play Oklahoma every year (as Michigan and Michigan State play Notre Dame) in pre-conference play. It would be ironic that you could play Oklahoma more often outside of the Big 12 than inside the Big 12.
We could, but it won't happen. There were talks when we joined the Big 12 about playing Oklahoma in the non-conference in years when we didn't play them in a conference game, but they never showed any interest in it. There's been no talk about playing them in the non-conference every year now that we are moving to the Big Ten, and I doubt they'd show any more interest in doing it now.
Quote from: agentsteel53 on August 09, 2010, 01:25:17 PM
Quote from: Michael in Philly on August 09, 2010, 01:12:16 PM
The Phils will be in first by the end of the week.
they'd already be in first if they hadn't traded Cliff Lee. Yes, Halladay is one hell of an acquisition (especially when he breaks with traditional baseball etiquette and refuses to allow baserunners to exist, which he has done once this season) but imagine a rotation led by Halladay and Lee.
They'd never lost first with Halladay and Lee no matter how bad their hitting was in May and June
Quote from: Michael in Philly on August 09, 2010, 01:12:16 PMThe Phils will be in first by the end of the week.
Yeah, I'm gonna go with no. :pan:
Might as well weigh in here myself (my MLB allegiance should be obvious from the above, and you can probably guess my alma mater after the first few of these):
1. Georgia
2. New York Mets
3. Philadelphia Phillies
4. Clemson
5. Duke (basketball only)
T6. New York Yankees
T6. Boston Red Sox
8. Notre Dame
9. Virginia Tech
10. Virginia, if only due to a tendency to lose to them way more often than we should
So you're looking for that Nats-Orioles World Series? (The other day I was trying to remember the last time the Os made it.)
Quote from: Michael in Philly on August 09, 2010, 08:42:36 PM
So you're looking for that Nats-Orioles World Series? (The other day I was trying to remember the last time the Os made it.)
'83 if I recall correctly. At least, that's the last time they won it. They haven't been the same since getting outplayed by a twelve year old.
Quote from: Michael in Philly on August 09, 2010, 01:12:16 PM
1. Yankees
2. New York Giants
3. Cowboys
4. Yankees
5. Mets
6. Braves
7. Yankees
8. Duke
9. Roger Federer
10. Yankees.
The Phils will be in first by the end of the week.
And I went to Georgetown.
Oh. I forgot: Yankees.
And Cleveland rocks. At least in June.
I also forgot Notre Dame. Sense of entitlement only exceeded by that of the Yankees. Although for New Yorkers, a sense of entitlement's in the water; don't know what explains it for Notre Dame.
Several comments on many of the posts here....
Triplemultiplex: "You know why football is so much more popular now? Parity. Until just recently, the NFL enjoyed years of 'any given Sunday' where any team could could quite possibly beat any other team. ESPN contributes to this Yankee hate from the rest of America. I swear ESPN thinks the entire MLB consists of the Yankees and the Red Sox since it's usually one of those teams playing anytime they televise a game. Like those teams need the exposure."
Parity in professional sports generally is not a bad thing per se....unlike the NBA or baseball were 3/4 of the teams know at the very beginning of the season they have no shot at a championship, in the NFL, select the right players, get a coaching staff that knows its chops and you could have a winner in short order....see Arizona Cardinals and their last few seasons as compared to their previous 20 years in the desert...
Your comment also reminds me of back in the late 19760s....when CBS did the NBA and every damn Sunday, we got the Lakers, Sixers or Celtics...one March in 1979 or 80, they went to San Antonio to do a Houston-Spurs game...around halftime, a group of Spur fans paraded a banner that was impossible for CBS to not show on live national TV: "HEY CBS...BOSTON AND PHILLY ARENT HERE...WHY ARE YOU?"
osu-lsu: "But there's no "socialism." The best players go to the best teams. No helping the "lesser teams" like the "socialistic" draft does with professional teams."
Perhaps, but this is why i hate college football....if you consider a game or athletic contest to be one where both sides have a reasonably equal chance at winning, then college football, esp the big-time levels fail miserably...a vicious cycle of crushball where the big boys duck each other outside of conference play, but schedule Div IAA or Div II for guaranteed wins to keep the whiny alumni drunk and happy....(at least college basketball gets it somewhat right, where the scrappy underdog can actually play for a championship like Butler did this past April, as opposed to the current rigged BCS system where if you are not among the anointed few, you have no chance at a title shot no matter how good you may be...) The BCS has royally screwed college football over...back in the day, you WOULD have the best teams play each other early in the season, as opposed to what happens now
(I proposed a year or two back that the NCAA take over Div IA football scheduling...and schedule a rotating system of opponents where each year the BCS teams would have to play some games against one of the other conferences....such as ACC North against Big 12 Souith, Big 12 North against Big East, Pac 10 vs ACC Souith, SEC West vs Big Ten , etc...and not at their choosing either....so it would be fun to see Florida or USC try to play Wisconsin in Camp Randall, or Minnesota in their new outdoor park....in late November when it gets a bit nippy....or see how well Ohio State copes in the Swamp....
amn, i could SO improve Sports if i was made Universal Sports Commisioner and Athletic Dictator for Life....
Quote from: Michael in Philly on August 09, 2010, 08:54:10 PM
I also forgot Notre Dame. Sense of entitlement only exceeded by that of the Yankees. Although for New Yorkers, a sense of entitlement's in the water; don't know what explains it for Notre Dame.
Two words: Touchdown Jesus.
/They're on a mission from God.
How do you explain their association with those commie-pinkos at NBC, then?
(I'm joking - I lean Democrat myself and get way too much of my news from MSNBC.)
Quote from: ctsignguy on August 09, 2010, 09:39:15 PM
or see how well Ohio State copes in the Swamp....
Not counting bowl games (or bonus preseason games in New Jersey), 1-0-1 in the last 25 years.
Defeated NC State in 2004
Tied LSU in 1987
Quote from: Michael in Philly on August 10, 2010, 11:51:03 AM
How do you explain their association with those commie-pinkos at NBC, then?
(I'm joking - I lean Democrat myself and get way too much of my news from MSNBC.)
It's Notre Dame, not Oral Roberts. :-D
Quote from: Michael in Philly on August 09, 2010, 08:42:36 PM
So you're looking for that Nats-Orioles World Series? (The other day I was trying to remember the last time the Os made it.)
Not exactly - just moved here last year; I'm a Georgia native (and thus Braves fan).
Quote from: rickmastfan67 on August 04, 2010, 02:25:11 PM
Quote from: Brandon on August 04, 2010, 12:38:52 PM
-Pittsburgh Penguins (touch Sid the Kid and get a penalty BS)
If that was the case, everybody on Motreal would have been in the box at the same time...
Or would had been walking on St. Catherine Street wrecking anything.... *sigh* as they did once the Pens was eleminated last season, imagine when they could win the Stanley cup again, shades of 1986 and 1993...
Quote from: realjd on August 02, 2010, 08:15:51 AM
I'm glad to see the hate for Notre Dame! As a Purdue alum, it makes me happy to know that the rest of the country hates them just as strongly!
Rest assured there's a bunch of USC Trojans fans who feel the same way about Notre Dame. I'm not a Trojans fan myself but my friend in southern California has a son who's such a rabid USC fan that his bedroom walls are painted the school colors!
I've never understood the appeal of USC, when UCLA is right down the street. twice the education at 1/3 the price.
My most hated teams: The New York Yankees, San Diego Padres and San Francisco Giants (as a Dodger fan), Dallas Cowboys (way back in the day when the Rams were in L.A., the Cowboys would always beat them in the playoffs), the Boston Celtics (as a Laker fan) and the San Antonio Spurs (as both a Laker and a Phoenix Suns fan--about five years ago, the Lakers were little more than "The Kobe Bryant Show" before the guy actually wised up and realized that you have to share the basketball if you want to win rings! About that time, having moved to Phoenix, I discovered the Suns' free-wheeling style of basketball was more fun to watch than "The Kobe Bryant Show." Now that the Lakers are good again, I'm a fan of both teams--but I'd like to see the Suns win the NBA title more than the Lakers).
Quote from: agentsteel53 on August 12, 2010, 06:30:01 PM
I've never understood the appeal of USC, when UCLA is right down the street. twice the education at 1/3 the price.
'cuz they have bitchen fight music.
Edit: I have no natural football loyalties - I grew up in a state where there was no football power, no university bearing the name of the state (and no self-service gas ;-) ) And went to a college where you only attended football games (at a high-school-sized facility on the roof of the athletic house), against the likes of Anne Arundel* Community College, if you were (1) bored or (2) like me, a member of the band: attendance at football games, like attendance at band practice, counted in your favor when it came time to determine who went to the NCAAs, including two Final Fours during my years there.
*Some wiseass in the band once came up with the cheer "Fumble, fumble, Anne Arundel."
Quote from: Michael in Philly on August 12, 2010, 08:42:02 PMAnne Arundel* Community College
Ah, good ol' Harvard on the Severn. :biggrin:
Quote from: Michael in Philly on August 12, 2010, 08:42:02 PM
Quote from: agentsteel53 on August 12, 2010, 06:30:01 PM
I've never understood the appeal of USC, when UCLA is right down the street. twice the education at 1/3 the price.
'cuz they have bitchen fight music.
Edit: I have no natural football loyalties - I grew up in a state where there was no football power, no university bearing the name of the state (and no self-service gas ;-) ) And went to a college where you only attended football games (at a high-school-sized facility on the roof of the athletic house), against the likes of Anne Arundel* Community College, if you were (1) bored or (2) like me, a member of the band: attendance at football games, like attendance at band practice, counted in your favor when it came time to determine who went to the NCAAs, including two Final Fours during my years there.
*Some wiseass in the band once came up with the cheer "Fumble, fumble, Anne Arundel."
The college I went to had no football team, so the band went to the basketball games. And not many people in the band actually showed up. Usually we just had two trombone players and a percussionist. I'm fairly certain the basketball coach hated us.
Quote from: ctsignguy on August 09, 2010, 09:39:15 PM
Parity in professional sports generally is not a bad thing per se....unlike the NBA or baseball were 3/4 of the teams know at the very beginning of the season they have no shot at a championship, in the NFL, select the right players, get a coaching staff that knows its chops and you could have a winner in short order....see Arizona Cardinals and their last few seasons as compared to their previous 20 years in the desert...
Yeah I like parity. It's more fun that way. If we can expect the same teams in the playoffs year after frickin year, that's boring. The whole league becomes about those few anointed franchises. And everyone not in those markets loses interest. That means less revenue. So it's more profitable for everyone involved to keep the sport interesting by giving last season's losers a chance to claw their way out of the basement.
Quote from: triplemultiplex on August 16, 2010, 07:14:37 PMgiving last season's losers a chance to claw their way out of the basement.
explain the Raiders.
Quote from: triplemultiplex on August 16, 2010, 07:14:37 PM
Yeah I like parity. It's more fun that way. If we can expect the same teams in the playoffs year after frickin year, that's boring. The whole league becomes about those few anointed franchises. And everyone not in those markets loses interest. That means less revenue. So it's more profitable for everyone involved to keep the sport interesting by giving last season's losers a chance to claw their way out of the basement.
I disagree. Having grown up in the era of the Steelers and Cowboys of the 70s, et. al., I miss dynasties, even if it's a team I dislike. And, players being associated with a franchise. Only a few players do that today.
As it seams that winning the Super Bowl today is almost as much lucky as good, I've lost interest in the NFL.
Quote from: agentsteel53 on August 16, 2010, 07:20:17 PM
Quote from: triplemultiplex on August 16, 2010, 07:14:37 PMgiving last season's losers a chance to claw their way out of the basement.
explain the Raiders.
It's a reverse dynasty. Imperious owner, appeals to tradition, exceptionalism, the "Raider Nation"... there's everything a dynasty has except victories. (Recent victories.)
Quote from: kurumi on August 17, 2010, 01:01:02 AM
Quote from: agentsteel53 on August 16, 2010, 07:20:17 PM
Quote from: triplemultiplex on August 16, 2010, 07:14:37 PMgiving last season's losers a chance to claw their way out of the basement.
explain the Raiders.
It's a reverse dynasty. Imperious owner, appeals to tradition, exceptionalism, the "Raider Nation"... there's everything a dynasty has except victories. (Recent victories.)
Well, they COULD be the Lions....
:spin:
Mike
Or the Bengals or (sadly) the Browns.
Quote from: Adam Smith on August 18, 2010, 11:47:54 PM
Or the Bengals or (sadly) the Browns.
The Bengals did make the playoffs last year though
Quote from: Eth on August 09, 2010, 06:59:31 PM
Quote from: Michael in Philly on August 09, 2010, 01:12:16 PMThe Phils will be in first by the end of the week.
Yeah, I'm gonna go with no. :pan:
I didn't say
which week.... :biggrin:
1. Those damned Yankees!!!!
2. Dallas Cowgirls
3. Notre Dame
4. Dukie Blue Devils
5. Alabama Crimson Tide
6. Los Angeles Fakers
7. Atlanta Falcons (Hey, I'm a loyal Saints fan)
8. Southern Jaguars (I'm a Jackson State grad)
9. Southern Cal
10. Ohio State
1. Every MLB team except the Rays and Rockies
2. Every NBA team except the Hornets
3. Alabama Crimson Tide
4. Florida Gators
5. Arkansas Razorbacks
6. Every NFC South team except the Saints (Duh)
7. Indianapolis Colts (at least until they get knocked down a peg or two, they win too much)
8. Ohio State Buckeyes
9. Texas Longhorns
10. New England Patriots (they haven't been humbled enough yet)
The Cowboys don't even rank because they suck this year. :P
All of them.
Quote from: Darkangel on September 20, 2010, 12:43:49 AMQuote from: Darkangel on September 20, 2010, 12:43:49 AM
The Cowboys don't even rank because they suck this year. :P
It's comments like that that's going to make it very, very hard for my Texans team to get the win tomorrow against that talent-loaded Dallas team.....by firing up our opponents and giving them motivation to use against us. That's what Cowboys fans have resort to....criticizing and even insulting their own team to give them fuel, which could very well work. Thanks a lot; now those dreaded Cowboys are going to come out angry and desperate for a win.
Quote from: BigMatt on July 31, 2010, 04:22:21 PM
Here's a list of mine:
9 - Montreal Canadiens.
I hate you.
I have my share of most hated teams.
1. St. Louis Cardinals
2. Green Bay Packers
3. Any team from Detroit
4. Any team from New York
5. Boston Celtics
6. San Francisco Giants
7. Dallas Cowboys
8. Texas Rangers
9. USC Trojans
10. Minnesota Vikings
1. New York Yankees
2. Notre Dame Fighting Irish
3. Ohio State Buckeyes
4. Chicago Cubs
5. Minnesota Vikings (especially when Brett Favre played there)
6. Ferris State Bulldogs
7. Saginaw Valley State Cardinals
8. Miami Heat
9. Chicago White Sox
10. Michigan State Spartans (except women's BB, because a good friend of mine will be playing there beginning this fall)
Here is my top ten, not necessarily in any order:
1. New York Yankees (ok, they are on top)
2. Boston Red Sox
3. Dallas Cowboys
4. New England Patriots
5. Los Angeles Lakers
6. Miami Heat (more for the media coverage than anything else)
7. Ohio State Buckeyes (I am a Penn State grad . . .)
8. Nebraska Cornhuskers (see above . . . think 1995)
9. USC Trojans
10. Chelsea FC (English soccer -- my son is a big ManU fan . . .)
EDIT: This is my 300th post. Not bad for a casual poster.
Quote from: akotchi on March 21, 2011, 01:01:06 PM10. Chelsea FC (English soccer -- my son is a big ManU fan . . .)
So what's the problem with Chelsea? Liverpool, Man City or Arsenal are much bigger enemies.
Here's my list (rather football heavy):
1) Man U - especially this season where they've played badly in loads of games and somehow get some result out of the game
2) Australian national cricket team
3) Luton Town FC - born in Watford and so I have the rivalry between the two towns in my veins
4) Portsmouth FC - lived in Southampton and so picked up the south coast rivalry
5) Argentina national football team
6) Chelsea as they bought success, rather than worked at it (I would also dislike Man City, were it not for my dislike of Man U and the fact that money hasn't won them anything)
7) West Brom - pretty irrational, taking sides in a local rivalry 100 miles from me - I do want them to go down!
From here it's just mild dislike
8) Scottish Rugby Union team, as they suck and it's always good to beat the Scots
9) MK Dons - purely as Franchise Football sucks and as the first (and only) team in England to move more than 5 or 6 miles, they get the wrath from it
10) Leeds FC - this one's irrational, but heh
Fixed the smiley for ya :-D -ms
Here's my list...
1. New York Yankees
2. Boston Red Sox
3. New York Jets
4. New England Patriots
5. New York Knicks
6. Boston Celtics (notice the pattern?)
7. Los Angeles Lakers
8. Los Angeles Dodgers
9. Anaheim Ducks (notice the new pattern?)
10. Miami Heat
I couldn't put the Boston Bruins on my list. Why? They traded Joe Thornton to the Sharks for just about nothing. Thanks to the Bruin organization!
Quote from: brownpelican on September 09, 2010, 04:05:47 AM
8. Southern Jaguars (I'm a Jackson State grad)
Preach it! I didn't go to JSU but as a Jacksonian and with many relatives and friends that went there, I'm a fan.
This is pointless but i will do it anyway because it's not so much the actual teams but their fans.
1 The Ohio State University (fans, players, and alum)
2 Univ of Michigan (thank God Rich Rod has tanked this program)
3 NY Yankee fans
4 Boston Red Sox fans (but i like the actual team)
5 New England Patriots (fans and team)
6 Minnesota Vikings (team and fans)
7 Chicago Bears (fans)
8 Chicago White Sox (fans, real ass clowns and yes I know that the Cubs have them too but no where near as bad)
9 Dallas Cowboys (team and fans)
10 Oakland Raiders (team and fans)
Top 10 Favorite teams and fandoms
10 Denver Broncos (team and fans)
9 Milwaukee Bucks (dating back to Sikma, Moncrief, and Pierce)
8 Philadelphia Phillies (team)
7 LA Lakers (the old school Showtime Lakers with Magic, Kareem, and Worthy)
6 Chicago Blackhawks (Thank God old man Wertz is gone)
5 Pittsburgh Steelers (team only, loyal fans but real bastards)
4 Milwaukee Brewers (my long time AL team, 2nd fav in NL now)
3 University of Wisconsin
2 Chicago Cubs (always has been my NL team)
1 Green Bay Packers (team, been a fan since I was 4. That's right. Pre-Brett. I remember Lynn Dickie and Brent Fullwood and Brian Noble)
Pretty much the only sports I routinely watch are auto racing (virtually all kinds except drag racing) and college football. Auto racing generally doesn't translate too well to this sort of listing, and the only really passionate dislike I have in that arena is Kyle Busch. So here's my football dislikes:
1. Auburn Tigers. This should be self-explanatory--I'm an Oregon Ducks fan.
2. Oklahoma Sooners. Sore losers from my experience, and I routinely watch their football games just to root for whoever's opposing them. (I was giddy after Mizzou beat them and knocked them off #1.)
3. California Golden Bears
4. USC Trojans
Surprisingly, I don't really mind Oregon State, and I only generally root against the Beavers when they're playing the Ducks in the Civil War (though I was actually kind of glad to see Stanford beat Oregon State this year). Their fans can be pretty obnoxious, though.
And while I don't really follow the NBA that much, as an Oregonian, this is obligatory:
5. Los Angeles Lakers
Quote from: Tarkus on April 16, 2011, 09:35:32 PM
Pretty much the only sports I routinely watch are auto racing (virtually all kinds except drag racing) and college football. Auto racing generally doesn't translate too well to this sort of listing, and the only really passionate dislike I have in that arena is Kyle Busch. So here's my football dislikes:
1. Auburn Tigers. This should be self-explanatory--I'm an Oregon Ducks fan.
Oh, come on. Different teams play and defeat each other in championships every year. I can understand being pissed at them right now, but there's no way you disliked them before this one past game. Someone has to win.
Quote from: AlpsROADS on April 16, 2011, 11:39:05 PM
Quote from: Tarkus on April 16, 2011, 09:35:32 PM
Pretty much the only sports I routinely watch are auto racing (virtually all kinds except drag racing) and college football. Auto racing generally doesn't translate too well to this sort of listing, and the only really passionate dislike I have in that arena is Kyle Busch. So here's my football dislikes:
1. Auburn Tigers. This should be self-explanatory--I'm an Oregon Ducks fan.
Oh, come on. Different teams play and defeat each other in championships every year. I can understand being pissed at them right now, but there's no way you disliked them before this one past game. Someone has to win.
Does $cam Newton have anything to do with your dislike of Auburn?
Quote from: AlpsROADS on April 16, 2011, 11:39:05 PM
Oh, come on. Different teams play and defeat each other in championships every year. I can understand being pissed at them right now, but there's no way you disliked them before this one past game. Someone has to win.
I'm also from Oregon, but I agree with your point. Although I usually pull more for Oregon State than Oregon, I root for both. But I have nothing particularly against Auburn for winning. It was a close game, and the better team probably won. I was more than mollified by my old high school winning its first state title in football, and Green Bay winning the Super Bowl. I've been rooting for the Packers for no really good reason since I was 8; they're pretty much my favorite team in all sports.
The major thing tainting Auburn's win were the allegations against Newton and some more recent ones against the program, which I have a feeling will ultimately result in Auburn vacating that championship, like USC had to do because of Reggie Bush. That's the real shame here, if it happens. Of course, Oregon is also being currently investigated by the NCAA, so the same might have happened had the Ducks won.
Since I'm in the thread, here are my most hated teams:
1. New York Yankees
2. LA Lakers
3. Dallas Cowboys
4. Miami Hurricanes
5. Oklahoma Sooners
But over time, this has shifted around. At various times, I'd have put the Pittsburgh Steelers, Florida State Seminoles, Texas Longhorns, or others on the list.
Don't expect any rational explanation on why I hate these particular teams, rationality has nothing to do with being a sports fan!
Quote from: ftballfan on April 17, 2011, 11:49:31 AM
Quote from: AlpsROADS on April 16, 2011, 11:39:05 PM
Quote from: Tarkus on April 16, 2011, 09:35:32 PM
Pretty much the only sports I routinely watch are auto racing (virtually all kinds except drag racing) and college football. Auto racing generally doesn't translate too well to this sort of listing, and the only really passionate dislike I have in that arena is Kyle Busch. So here's my football dislikes:
1. Auburn Tigers. This should be self-explanatory--I'm an Oregon Ducks fan.
Oh, come on. Different teams play and defeat each other in championships every year. I can understand being pissed at them right now, but there's no way you disliked them before this one past game. Someone has to win.
Does $cam Newton have anything to do with your dislike of Auburn?
I see your point as well, and agree that there has to be winners and losers--that's part of the game.
But yes, $cam Newton does have a lot to do with my dislike of Auburn. The dealings around him shady, and not just the business with his dad shopping him around--the guy essentially got kicked out of Florida for poor academics and behavior. On top of that, he's largely the product of SEC hype. Newton was a non-factor for much of the BCS Championship game, and really, it was Fairley and Dyer than won that game for Auburn. Oregon might have pulled it off had Dyer not executed that spectacular play at the end of the 4th quarter when he managed to keep his knee off the ground.
Quote from: xonhulu on April 17, 2011, 02:00:19 PM
rationality has nothing to do with being a sports fan!
Quoted for truth. :-D
The Dallas Cowboys and Notre Dame are two teams I really don't like. I've been a Beaver fan since 1967 but there is no hatred for the Ducks' athletic teams on my end and I liked it when they won the CBI as OSU did a couple years ago. It's too bad they lost to Auburn in the title game but if any Pac-10 team is playing in a bowl game or for a national title, they get my support even if they are the rival team or one that has hammered us more often than not.
Favorite memory: OSU 41 Notre Dame 9 (2001 Fiesta Bowl) The winningest team of the 20th century lost to the losingest team of the 20th century on the first day of the 21st century. The Irish have yet to recover from that loss.
Rick
For the next two weeks, the Tampa Bay Lightning will top my list of hated teams, but the following list is more of a regular basis.
1. Pittsburgh Penguins
2. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State (SIC) University Hoakies (they themselves misspelled it that way on souvenir cups, so I prefer to honor their own mistake when I use that name)
3. Philadelphia Flyers
4. New York Rangers
5. Maryland Terrapins
6. UNC Tar Heels
7. Dallas Cowboys
8. Philadelphia Phillies (primarily due to fan behavior when they visit DC)
9. McLaren-Mercedes
10. Los Angeles National League Franchise (my parents, and all my other relatives except two cousins younger than me, grew up in Brooklyn)
The Yankees, Orioles, Red Sox, etc. do not make my list because I do not watch American League baseball except when the Nationals play an AL team. When I was a kid I liked the idea of the DH because I thought more offense was good, but I didn't appreciate the strategy that goes into the traditional rules, and I definitely didn't understand how much the DH unnecessarily prolongs AL games.
My list:
1. Anaheim Angels
2. New York Giants (err excuse me, New Jersey Giants)
3. New York Jets (ahem)
4. Texas Rangers
5. Detroit Red Wings
6. New Jersey Nets
7. Boston Red Sox
8. Toronto Blue Jays
9. New Jersey Devils
10. Rutgers Scarlet Knights (every single one of them)
Of course, noticeably missing from my list is the New England Patriots, but that's because they are my favorite football team. ;)
Quote from: 1995hoo on April 29, 2011, 04:44:22 PM
For the next two weeks, the Tampa Bay Lightning will top my list of hated teams, but the following list is more of a regular basis.
1. Pittsburgh Penguins
2. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State (SIC) University Hoakies (they themselves misspelled it that way on souvenir cups, so I prefer to honor their own mistake when I use that name)
3. Philadelphia Flyers
4. New York Rangers
5. Maryland Terrapins
6. UNC Tar Heels
7. Dallas Cowboys
8. Philadelphia Phillies (primarily due to fan behavior when they visit DC)
9. McLaren-Mercedes
10. Los Angeles National League Franchise (my parents, and all my other relatives except two cousins younger than me, grew up in Brooklyn)
The Yankees, Orioles, Red Sox, etc. do not make my list because I do not watch American League baseball except when the Nationals play an AL team. When I was a kid I liked the idea of the DH because I thought more offense was good, but I didn't appreciate the strategy that goes into the traditional rules, and I definitely didn't understand how much the DH unnecessarily prolongs AL games.
You hate the Rangers, Penguins, and Flyers... are you somehow a Devils fan? The Crapitals are fortunately not near that division.
Quote from: AlpsROADS on April 30, 2011, 02:52:11 PM
You hate the Rangers, Penguins, and Flyers... are you somehow a Devils fan? The Crapitals are fortunately not near that division.
Trust me when I say this, the Penguins and Crapitals have a major rivalry. We met them a lot of times in the playoffs in the '90's.
Quote from: rickmastfan67 on May 01, 2011, 01:05:55 AM
Quote from: AlpsROADS on April 30, 2011, 02:52:11 PM
You hate the Rangers, Penguins, and Flyers... are you somehow a Devils fan? The Crapitals are fortunately not near that division.
Trust me when I say this, the Penguins and Crapitals have a major rivalry. We met them a lot of times in the playoffs in the '90's.
That much I understand, but why Flyers and Rangers also? There's no rivalry there with Washington that I know of.
Quote from: AlpsROADS on May 01, 2011, 02:38:34 AM
Quote from: rickmastfan67 on May 01, 2011, 01:05:55 AM
Quote from: AlpsROADS on April 30, 2011, 02:52:11 PM
You hate the Rangers, Penguins, and Flyers... are you somehow a Devils fan? The Capitals are fortunately not near that division.
Trust me when I say this, the Penguins and Capitals have a major rivalry. We met them a lot of times in the playoffs in the '90's.
That much I understand, but why Flyers and Rangers also? There's no rivalry there with Washington that I know of.
When I was growing up, the Capitals played in the Patrick Division: Washington, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Devils, Rangers, and Islanders. It was a GREAT division in terms of rivalry and in terms of geographic compactness. Back then the NHL scheduled a lot more Friday-Saturday home-and-homes where, say, the Caps would play in Philadelphia on Friday night and the following night the Flyers would return the visit here. The playoffs were division-based until Bettman came up with the NBA-style conference-based system in 1993 or so. Most hockey fans agree that true rivalries are built in the playoffs, and for much of the 1980s the same four Patrick Division teams made the playoffs every year (Washington, Philadelphia, the Islanders, and the Rangers), with some variation in who played whom. You had to win two series against division foes to advance to the conference finals. It made for a lot of great divisional rivalries in those days. The reconfiguration of the league coupled with the conference-based system means that it's harder to develop a rivalry these days if it didn't already exist–thus, most of us who have been Capitals fans for 20+ years still hate the old Patrick Division rivals more than we do the Southeast Division teams.
1) University of Michigan
2) New England Patriots
3) Green Bay Packers
4) Oakland A's
5) Boston Red Sox
6) Detroit Red Wings
7) New York Yankees
8) Chicago Cubs
9) Los Angeles Lakers
10) Boston Celtics
Speaking of most hated teams, HA HA to the LA Lakers! All I cared about regarding the NBA playoffs was that the Lakers lose and boy did they ever. To quote the movie The Hunt for Red October, "Way to go Dallas!!"
I expressed my preferences long ago, but here is a local list:
NFL
Jacksonville Jaguars
Indianapolis Colts (kinda sorta, UT Alum Peyton blunts this some)
Baltimore Ravens
NHL
Detroit Redwings
Columbus Blue Jackets
Anaheim Ducks
San Jose Sharks
Vancouver Canucks
College Football
Alabama
Florida
Arkansas
College Basketball (Men's)
University of Kentucky
(Women's)
University of Connecticut
It's gotta be the Yankees (AL) and Dodgers (NL) in baseball, Lakers and Celtics in basketball...and Cowboys in football. The problem is, the underdog teams get abit more sympathy for disastrous postseason losses or failures like a dreaded curse is a tradition (esp. the Cleveland Indians and Chicago Cubs). Luckily, the SF Giants won last year's world series, though they almost lost the division title (NL West) to the Padres by a game...the outcome would been totally different.
I root for the Angels in baseball and the Ducks in hockey. Anaheim is expected to have a NBA team in the near future, yet they hadn't had football since the Rams left L.A. They played in pre-2002 Angels' Field (then Anaheim stadium) in 1995. The Angels were first "L.A.", "California", "Anaheim" and once again "Los Angeles of Anaheim" without really moving out.
If you hate the Heat, they're just over eight minutes away from going cold. I don't really like Dallas either, but I find myself pulling for them because the media crowned the Heat as champions the minute LeBron James announced he was going to Miami.
Quote from: golden eagle on June 12, 2011, 10:23:02 PM
If you hate the Heat, they're just over eight minutes away from going cold. I don't really like Dallas either, but I find myself pulling for them because the media crowned the Heat as champions the minute LeBron James announced he was going to Miami.
Dan Gilbert must be smiling now.
Quote from: golden eagle on June 12, 2011, 10:23:02 PM
If you hate the Heat, they're just over eight minutes away from going cold. I don't really like Dallas either, but I find myself pulling for them because the media crowned the Heat as champions the minute LeBron James announced he was going to Miami.
Yeah... I bet there are a lot of people in the Cleveland area that are pretty happy right now.
Quote from: Mr_Northside on June 13, 2011, 12:02:23 PM
Quote from: golden eagle on June 12, 2011, 10:23:02 PM
If you hate the Heat, they're just over eight minutes away from going cold. I don't really like Dallas either, but I find myself pulling for them because the media crowned the Heat as champions the minute LeBron James announced he was going to Miami.
Actually they crowned themselves....("not 1, not 2, not 3, not 4, not 5, not 6, not 7")
Quote from: 1995hoo on April 29, 2011, 04:44:22 PM
9. McLaren-Mercedes
This one caught me by surprise; I'd really expect that most people hate Scuderia Ferrari for more political whining, rule-bending, and unsporting twists than every other team put together. In short, they're the New York Yankees of Grand Prix racing, but the truth is they are the one racing team with a mythos and legend that few other teams have. Having utterly dominated the sport from 2000-2004, and playing games with team orders, doesn't help either.
McLaren started the trend of the corporate-branded, new-speak press conference heralded, everything-run-by-a-perfectionist, racing team that eventually everyone copied (save maybe Red Bull and the lesser teams)...which is kind of reprehensible and annoying in its own right.
Truth is, I don't really hate teams anymore, but more of what sports is becoming, or at least, most sporting media: Twitter is not a medium used well by people with a 10th-grade education. ESPN gives 30-minute/hour-long soul-less press conferences, which are generally free from content. Players that generally spout the same tired phrases and bland cliches that we've heard a million times. We hear more about a contract re-negotiation and fantasy scores than about someone busting their hump in some other form of competitive sport. Non-competitive stuff like essentially meaningless NFL combines, draft predicting (never mind I totally do not understand the mindset of someone watching hours of draft-day coverage), OTAs, et cetera. It's like the gathering of minutia has become a sport in itself.
Then again, I'd really prefer the SEC football conference just becomes its own football league. :)
Quote from: mightyace on May 16, 2011, 01:11:13 PM
I expressed my preferences long ago, but here is a local list:
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NHL
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Columbus Blue Jackets (Ummm, what did WE do to offend anybody?)
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(Women's)
University of Connecticut (THIS i understand...although a shame we dont play Tennessee anymore, it was a great game for womens basketball..)
^^^
I don't know what's at the root of the Predators/Blue Jacket rivalry (besides intradivision) but it's there here in greater Nashville nonetheless.
For some reason, I hate Ohio State. It must be the Michigander in me.
Also in colleges, my most hated teams are the ones who play Iowa in football and Michigan State in basketball. Other than that, I'm indifferent.
Quote from: mightyace on June 23, 2011, 12:45:49 PM
^^^
I don't know what's at the root of the Predators/Blue Jacket rivalry (besides intradivision) but it's there here in greater Nashville nonetheless.
<Shrugs shoulders in return> Blue Jackets do as well in Nashville as the Browns do in Pittsburgh
Personal lists:
NFL:
1. Packers
2. Jets
3. Pats
4. Bears
5. Cowboys/Steelers
MLB:
1. Yankees
2. Red Sox
3. White Sox
College:
1. Wisconsin
2. Iowa
3. Notre Dame
4. Ohio State
5. Michigan
I also hate Duke with a passion, but only in basketball.
NBA:
1. Lakers
In terms of national hatred, I'd include this year's Heat, recent Lakers teams, Yankees, and most Cowboys teams since the late 70s.
I think I can add Ohio State to my list of teams now. Thanks for not only being crooks, but also for handling it terribly. If for nothing else, I hate them because of their pure stupidity and how everything blew up and cast an enormous dark shadow on college basketball.
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Quote from: mightyace on June 23, 2011, 12:45:49 PM
^^^
I don't know what's at the root of the Predators/Blue Jacket rivalry (besides intradivision) but it's there here in greater Nashville nonetheless.
<Shrugs shoulders in return> Blue Jackets do as well in Nashville as the Browns do in Pittsburgh
Well, in the first few years of the Blue Jackets existence, they had our number.
Anyway, this is sports fandom, who says it has to be rational? :sombrero:
Quote from: Hot Rod Hootenanny on June 24, 2011, 11:31:33 PM
Quote from: mightyace on June 23, 2011, 12:45:49 PM
^^^
I don't know what's at the root of the Predators/Blue Jacket rivalry (besides intradivision) but it's there here in greater Nashville nonetheless.
<Shrugs shoulders in return> Blue Jackets do as well in Nashville as the Browns do in Pittsburgh
Ouch! That bad.
Quote from: PAHighways on June 25, 2011, 11:45:25 PM
Quote from: Hot Rod Hootenanny on June 24, 2011, 11:31:33 PM
Quote from: mightyace on June 23, 2011, 12:45:49 PM
^^^
I don't know what's at the root of the Predators/Blue Jacket rivalry (besides intradivision) but it's there here in greater Nashville nonetheless.
<Shrugs shoulders in return> Blue Jackets do as well in Nashville as the Browns do in Pittsburgh
Ouch! That bad.
Yeah, "Three Rivers jinx" bad (C-bus finished the season on a 0-16 string at Nashville)
^^^
I honestly didn't realize how much it had swung in our favor.
I stopped following the Predators closely a few years ago as the team's modus operandi seems to be:
1) Get a few hot, young players
2) Barely squeak into the playoffs
3) Get bounced out in the first round
4) Trade or don't resign players when their contract runs out.
5) Repeat ad nauseum
And while doing so, rely heavily on your goalkeeper because you can't score to save your life especially on the power play.
Most years, the Preds are in the top 5 or 10 in penalty killing but in the bottom five or ten in power play goals.
This mode of operation may make the team money, but gives us no real chance at the Cup.
Quote from: mightyace on June 29, 2011, 06:20:24 AM
^^^
I honestly didn't realize how much it had swung in our favor.
I stopped following the Predators closely a few years ago as the team's modus operandi seems to be:
1) Get a few hot, young players
2) Barely squeak into the playoffs
3) Get bounced out in the first round
4) Trade or don't resign players when their contract runs out.
5) Repeat ad nauseum
And while doing so, rely heavily on your goalkeeper because you can't score to save your life especially on the power play.
Most years, the Preds are in the top 5 or 10 in penalty killing but in the bottom five or ten in power play goals.
This mode of operation may make the team money, but gives us no real chance at the Cup.
But i figured Nashville fans would LOVE the CBJ...afterall, there arent many guaranteed wins on a typical NHL schedule, and we provide the Preds with a few every season!
Quote from: njroadhorse on June 25, 2011, 12:40:11 PM
I think I can add Ohio State to my list of teams now. Thanks for not only being crooks, but also for handling it terribly. If for nothing else, I hate them because of their pure stupidity and how everything blew up and cast an enormous dark shadow on college basketball.
I think you mean college football.
most hated? how about the NCAA in general?
they certainly belong on the list of crooks.
A good thing about the NCAA: There are no unions involved.
Big Matt is a man of ideas!
Surprised more of you dont hate the Cowboys. Even here in Austin there are a lot of those. Gotta go home and make my list tonight.....
1 Boston Red Sox (thinking they are so much better than Yankee fans...and they'll never have that many rings)
2 OU Sooners (landgrabbers)
3 aTm Aggies (do the other 10 games besides the UT game matter?)
4 MN Vikings (will never win the big one)
5 Alabama (roll turds!)
6 Nebraska (we have a football team and..well, thats about it)
7 Washington Redskins (ever getting rid of the racist name?)
8 Phi Eagles
9 Notre Dame (would rate higher but they arent as smug these days)
10 Iowa (we have a football team and American Pickers and, well, thats about it)
Hurts me to leave off the Celtics, Nascar, Ohio State, and USC
Quote from: texaskdog on July 06, 2011, 12:38:33 AM
1 Boston Red Sox (thinking they are so much better than Yankee fans...and they'll never have that many rings)
2 OU Sooners (landgrabbers)
3 aTm Aggies (do the other 10 games besides the UT game matter?)
4 MN Vikings (will never win the big one)
5 Alabama (roll turds!)
6 Nebraska (we have a football team and..well, thats about it)
7 Washington Redskins (ever getting rid of the racist name?)
8 Phi Eagles
9 Notre Dame (would rate higher but they arent as smug these days)
10 Iowa (we have a football team and American Pickers and, well, thats about it)
Hurts me to leave off the Celtics, Nascar, Ohio State, and USC
Um, The Redskins were named after a coach's nickname, and yes, he was an Amerindian. So don't be so quick to suggest it was named in racism.
I lived in Minnesota where they changed all teams named braves, indians, whatever to Lakers. I dont have problems with Utes, Seminoles, whatever, just "Redskins" and the Cleveland Indians mascot....just a little over the top in 2011.
^ The story is that The Seminole Nation gave their approval of the Florida State mascot , name, and game traditions. and they have someone dress up in warpaint and throw an arrow down on their home turf before the game begins. Even speaking as a Gator, it's definitely bad-ass...although we do remind them that they were an all-girls school until the late-1940s.
Okay, so there's one team that annoys me, especially even FSU fans admit that having only one very repetitive chant gets annoying after a while. We have more than a few at Florida Field.
most teams have annoying traditions. My least favorite is any of the 800 traditions at aTm.
One of the most hated teams in college football served themselves a giant slice of humble pie this week when Ohio State forfeited all of their 2010 wins. So on behalf of the rest of the Big 10 (er.. 12, whatever): HA HA!!!
Quote from: triplemultiplex on July 09, 2011, 06:42:31 PM
One of the most hated teams in college football served themselves a giant slice of humble pie this week when Ohio State forfeited all of their 2010 wins. So on behalf of the rest of the Big 10 (er.. 12, whatever): HA HA!!!
eh. as much as I dislike Ohio State, I think the NCAA is a million times worse. it would be one thing to argue on behalf of amateurism if the school itself were also running its football program "for the love of sport". Alas, the schools, the bowls, the NCAA themselves... they're all raking in money hand over fist, and to deny the athletes (ya know, the actual people who deliver the product) a piece of the action is gravely unfair.
^^
I'm with you on that. The NCAA functions as a minor league for the NFL and NBA. But the players are not compensated for their contributions toward this multi-billion dollar endeavor. Supposedly they're getting an "education" out of this deal, but the 40 or 50 grand most of their scholarships are worth pales in comparison to the billions raked in by schools and the NCAA through apparel and video games and advertising. Yet a when a student-athlete accepts a pair of shoes or a car that fucking works from a booster, suddenly they're giving up Heisman's and bowl games.
Since Michigan isn't worth worrying about anymore, we'll have plenty of marshmellows and quarters waiting for when all of Wisconsin comes to C-bus.
I think USC should hang their 2005 championship trophy and Bush's Heisman award proudly in the economics wing of their campus, with a sign: this championship earned by the most fairly-compensated players in college football history.
Quote from: agentsteel53 on July 09, 2011, 07:57:40 PM
I think USC should hang their 2005 championship trophy and Bush's Heisman award proudly in the economics wing of their campus, with a sign: this championship earned by the most fairly-compensated players in college football history.
Long as its nowhere near USC's philosophy Dept. I'm sure they would have questions concerning the ethics of those "fairly-compensated" students, err, athletes.
Quote from: Hot Rod Hootenanny on July 09, 2011, 08:17:11 PM
Long as its nowhere near USC's philosophy Dept. I'm sure they would have questions concerning the ethics of those "fairly-compensated" students, err, athletes.
nah, that's Cal's philosophy department.
What's funny is Title 9 means there has to be a woman's sport for every man's sport, and some complain about how much the football program gets and the coaches are paid, but they actually make the school money in most cases. I love UT softball but those 500 tix for each of 25 home games dont compare to the 100,000 the football team sells for each of 6 games.
Like these FB teams all have to cheat to get ahead, apparently. If NFL had a minor league, how many of these kids would go to college?
Quote from: texaskdog on July 10, 2011, 10:27:16 AM
What's funny is Title 9 means there has to be a woman's sport for every man's sport, and some complain about how much the football program gets and the coaches are paid, but they actually make the school money in most cases. I love UT softball but those 500 tix for each of 25 home games dont compare to the 100,000 the football team sells for each of 6 games.
Like these FB teams all have to cheat to get ahead, apparently. If NFL had a minor league, how many of these kids would go to college?
Ditto if the major sports leagues in North America operated on the same 'promotion/relegation' system that most others do elsewhere in the World.
Mike
Quote from: mgk920 on July 10, 2011, 03:23:56 PM
Quote from: texaskdog on July 10, 2011, 10:27:16 AM
What's funny is Title 9 means there has to be a woman's sport for every man's sport, and some complain about how much the football program gets and the coaches are paid, but they actually make the school money in most cases. I love UT softball but those 500 tix for each of 25 home games dont compare to the 100,000 the football team sells for each of 6 games.
Like these FB teams all have to cheat to get ahead, apparently. If NFL had a minor league, how many of these kids would go to college?
Ditto if the major sports leagues in North America operated on the same 'promotion/relegation' system that most others do elsewhere in the World.
Mike
And the pro owners cry about losing money. Fine....don't pay your players so much.
Teams I hate:
-St. Louis Cardinals
-Chicago White Sox
-New York Yankees
-Green Bay Packers
-Minnesota Vikings
-Detroit Red Wings
-Vancouver Canucks
-Boston everything (not so much the Bruins anymore)
-Dallas Cowboys
-Indianapolis Colts
-Miami Heat
Some of these may sound like strange teams to hate, but if you're a Chicago sports fan, you'll know why I hate almost every one of these teams.
Quote from: Chicagosuburban on July 19, 2011, 01:52:23 PM
Teams I hate:
-St. Louis Cardinals
-Chicago White Sox
-New York Yankees
-Green Bay Packers
-Minnesota Vikings
-Detroit Red Wings
-Vancouver Canucks
-Boston everything (not so much the Bruins anymore)
-Dallas Cowboys
-Indianapolis Colts
-Miami Heat
Some of these may sound like strange teams to hate, but if you're a Chicago sports fan, you'll know why I hate almost every one of these teams.
What I hate most about the Viqueens (after living 37 years in Minnesota) was that every year they think they'll win it all, and get so smug about any small bit of success. They keep beating the Cowboys who actually have 5 super bowl championships.
Quote from: Chicagosuburban on July 19, 2011, 01:52:23 PM
Teams I hate:
-St. Louis Cardinals
-Chicago White Sox
-New York Yankees
-Green Bay Packers
-Minnesota Vikings
-Detroit Red Wings
-Vancouver Canucks
-Boston everything (not so much the Bruins anymore)
-Dallas Cowboys
-Indianapolis Colts
-Miami Heat
Some of these may sound like strange teams to hate, but if you're a Chicago sports fan, you'll know why I hate almost every one of these teams.
Seems like you're more of a Wrigley Field fan than an actual baseball fan.
A Cubs fan that doesn't hate the Brewers?
Quote from: Chicagosuburban on July 19, 2011, 01:52:23 PM
Teams I hate:
-St. Louis Cardinals
-Chicago White Sox
-New York Yankees
-Green Bay Packers
-Minnesota Vikings
-Detroit Red Wings
-Vancouver Canucks
-Boston everything (not so much the Bruins anymore)
-Dallas Cowboys
-Indianapolis Colts
-Miami Heat
A Cubs fan that doesn't hate the Brewers? WTF? Unless it just skipped your mind...
Quote from: triplemultiplex on July 20, 2011, 07:21:48 PM
A Cubs fan that doesn't hate the Brewers?Quote from: Chicagosuburban on July 19, 2011, 01:52:23 PM
Teams I hate:
-St. Louis Cardinals
-Chicago White Sox
-New York Yankees
-Green Bay Packers
-Minnesota Vikings
-Detroit Red Wings
-Vancouver Canucks
-Boston everything (not so much the Bruins anymore)
-Dallas Cowboys
-Indianapolis Colts
-Miami Heat
A Cubs fan that doesn't hate the Brewers? WTF? Unless it just skipped your mind...
Because he's too busy hating the Yankees, like everyone that is just jealous of our success.
"Our" success? Do you play shortstop or something?
Look, I'm a Yankees fan. But go ahead, nitpick.
Quote from: triplemultiplex on July 20, 2011, 07:21:48 PM
A Cubs fan that doesn't hate the Brewers?Quote from: Chicagosuburban on July 19, 2011, 01:52:23 PM
Teams I hate:
-St. Louis Cardinals
-Chicago White Sox
-New York Yankees
-Green Bay Packers
-Minnesota Vikings
-Detroit Red Wings
-Vancouver Canucks
-Boston everything (not so much the Bruins anymore)
-Dallas Cowboys
-Indianapolis Colts
-Miami Heat
A Cubs fan that doesn't hate the Brewers? WTF? Unless it just skipped your mind...
Yeah it skipped my mind...
It's a pretty safe bet the most hated teams are usually the most successful:
MLB: Yankees, Red Sox, Dodgers, Giants (among some others)
NBA: Lakers, Celtics (hatred for these two probably eclipse all others, including the Miami LeBosh)
NHL: Red Wings
NFL: Everyone hates the Patriots
MLS: No one hates on teams they don't watch
Don't follow international sports too much, so I don't know of any "most hated" teams, although I'm sure Manchester United is up on that list somewhere.
Manchester United? :eyebrow:
Yes, ManUre are very much hated by lots of people in England.
Quote from: Quillz on July 21, 2011, 02:44:28 AM
It's a pretty safe bet the most hated teams are usually the most successful
It usually does work out that way.
Quote from: Quillz on July 21, 2011, 02:44:28 AM
It's a pretty safe bet the most hated teams are usually the most successful:
MLB: Yankees, Red Sox, Dodgers, Giants (among some others)
NBA: Lakers, Celtics (hatred for these two probably eclipse all others, including the Miami LeBosh)
NHL: Red Wings
NFL: Everyone hates the Patriots
MLS: No one hates on teams they don't watch
Don't follow international sports too much, so I don't know of any "most hated" teams, although I'm sure Manchester United is up on that list somewhere.
I don't see the Cowboys on your list!
Quote from: texaskdog on July 28, 2011, 02:34:57 PM
I don't see the Cowboys on your list!
That's because they haven't been excellent at kicking an oblong ball through a giant H for over 10 years.
Jerry Jones is annoying though...just shut up. He's the T.O./Chad Johnson of team owners (I know, that's a backwards-compatible way of looking at things).
Duke.
Quote from: texaskdog on July 19, 2011, 06:23:47 PM
What I hate most about the Viqueens (after living 37 years in Minnesota) was that every year they think they'll win it all, and get so smug about any small bit of success.
As a lifelong Vikings fan, I'll be the first to admit that we have some of the most bipolar fans in sports and it pisses me off to no end. Win the season opener, and they'll proclaim a Super Bowl win...lose in Week 2 and the same fans think the team's doomed. So in short, you're pretty much right. I try to be much more realistic.
Quote from: Scott5114 on July 20, 2011, 08:00:37 PM
"Our" success? Do you play shortstop or something?
Being a Yankee fan these days (at any time since about 1935...) is like being born on third base, thinking you hit the triple personally, and being smug about it. No one, no one, more than 50 miles from New York (except upstate) has any excuse for rooting for the Yankees, and those in the New York area can root for the Mets. Particularly when they're beating the Braves (which they were a few minutes ago. But no matter - the Braves are still nine games back.)
I also had a a bit about being born on the bandwagon, but I can't work it into the metaphor.
I always thought one should root for the pro teams in one's geographical area, unless one had a personal reason to root for another team (the team from where you used to live, a team with a local player on it, etc.) Where I live was always Reds country until Channel 17 in Atlanta, WTBS, started getting on every cable system in the free world and started beaming Braves games to a nationwide audience. When I was in my mid to late 20s, I started noticing just how many teenagers and folks in their early 20s were Braves fans instead of Reds fans. I just couldn't comprehend or understand. I'd rather listen to a Reds game on the radio than watch a Braves game on TV ... well, at least until the '94 strike; after that I don't give a crap about MLB. I don't follow the Reds anymore.
NFL: Cleveland Browns, New England Patriots
NCAA FB: Ohio State (Like their band though :-P)
I don't follow sports very often, so the list here is small.
Quote from: Quillz on July 21, 2011, 02:44:28 AM
Don't follow international sports too much, so I don't know of any "most hated" teams, although I'm sure Manchester United is up on that list somewhere.
Add Collingwood to that list. :spin:
LSU Corndogs
How in the world does an Akronite who likes the Bengals come to hate Ohio State?
Quote from: bugo on November 29, 2011, 03:19:57 AM
LSU Corndogs
You're just jealous because my birthday gift was better than yours. :-P
Quote from: The Premier on October 31, 2011, 03:28:19 PMNFL: Cleveland Browns, New England Patriots
So there is something a Bengals fan and a Steelers fan can agree on.
necroing this post because it needs to be necroed.
Pennsylvania Rape University.
Quote from: agentsteel53 on July 23, 2012, 12:57:43 PM
necroing this post because it needs to be necroed.
Pennsylvania Rape University.
Yup
alas a far too light penalty imposed on them. the Stalinist "let's rewrite the number of victories the school had" just strikes me as odd, and going forward they still have a football program.
significantly less major violations (payment of minimal stipends to students) led to a total "death penalty" ban on football at SMU in the late 80s. let's get this straight - paying a fair wage is bad, but raping small children is fine? all hail the football-industrial complex!
How about the Yankees? They hold the record for being in the most World Series than any other team. At one time Steinbrenner was firing managers like people changing undershorts. How many times was ol Billy Martin at the helm?
Love em or hate em, I choose the latter as to me they seem like they have a lucky streak just like the Lakers in the NBA.
I used like to see ol George get mad when his Yanks lost a game, and still even thought he is either 6 feet under, in an urn, or above ground in a mosuleum I love to see them loose! Hopefully turning in his grave when they do.
Chicago Bears
Minnesota Viqueens
Chicago Cubs
St Louis Cardinals
Chicago Bulls
N.Y. Yankees
Dallas Cowboys
Boston Redsox
New England Patriots
Denver Broncos
Bronx Steinbrenners
Indianapolis Irsays
Texas Rangers
Pittsburgh Steelers
Dallas Cowboys
Philadelphia Flyers
In Order of Hatred,
1 New York Yankees
2 Los Angeles Lakers
3 Ohio State Buckeyes
4 Oklahoma Sooners
5 USC Trojans
6 St. Louis Cardinals
7 New England Patriots
Quote from: cpzilliacus on July 25, 2012, 05:44:14 PM
Bronx Steinbrenners
Indianapolis Irsays
Texas Rangers
Pittsburgh Steelers
Dallas Cowboys
Philadelphia Flyers
That's Pittsburgh Rooneys, Dallas Joneses (now), and Philadelphia Sniders.
Quote from: elsmere241 on July 26, 2012, 01:22:11 PM
Quote from: cpzilliacus on July 25, 2012, 05:44:14 PM
Bronx Steinbrenners
Indianapolis Irsays
Texas Rangers
Pittsburgh Steelers
Dallas Cowboys
Philadelphia Flyers
That's Pittsburgh Rooneys, Dallas Joneses (now), and Philadelphia Sniders.
The first two feature the names of the owners because I consider them to be especially evil (even though the primary evildoers are now deceased (George "Store-Bought Player Roster" Steinbrenner and Bob "Midnight Ride" Irsay)).
The owner of the Texas Rangers (f/k/a Washington Senators II) at the time of the move, Bob Short (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Short), at least had the decency to announce in advance that he was moving to Arlington, Texas before the 1971 season ended.
Dallas Cowboys
New York Yankees
Miami Dolphins
Pittsburgh Steelers
Philadelphia Eagles
Oakland/LA Raiders
Los Angeles Dodgers
Pittsburgh Pirates
Pittsburgh Penguins
Top 10 Teams I hate the most:
1 - Dallas Cowboys
2 - Anything New York
3 - Anything Philadelphia
4 - Miami Marlins
5 - Pittsburgh Steelers
6 - Oakland Raiders
7 - Green Bay Packers
8 - Kansas City Chiefs
9 - Tampa Bay Buccanears
10 - Atlanta Falcons
Heh, it's amazing that the Marlins haven't figured a bit more regularly in thisvthread; they do quite a bit to make sure their own fanbase is occasionally disgusted with them. Yet, they've won two championships within their first 10 full seasons, but there's many things about the current owners' attitudes and behaviors that verge on despicable.
Quote from: US12 on July 25, 2012, 08:19:08 PM
In Order of Hatred,
...
3 Ohio State Buckeyes
...
Not #1 on your list, O Michigander? :bigass:
The Dodgers. That's all I have to say.
Here are my most hated teams list:
MLB- Boston Red Sox. 'Nuff said.
NFL- Green Bay Packers. 'Nuff said.
NHL- St. Louis Blues. The Chicago Cubs of hockey.
NBA- I don't really watch NBA (unless its the finals).
Hate is a very strong word, but then so is love. That's why I try to refrain from using the words "love" and "hate." I use "like" or "dislike" instead.
Happy Roadgeeking,
NYYPhil777 ;-)
Think I might have to revise mine since I first posted it:
1. Philadelphia Flyers
2. Boston Red Sox
3. Baltimore Ravens
4. Virginia Cavaliers
5. Washington Capitals
6. Philadelphia Phillies
7. Miami Heat
8. Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim
9. Clemson Tigers
10. Los Angeles Lakers/Detroit Red Wings
Quote from: pianocello on July 29, 2012, 07:43:57 PM
Quote from: US12 on July 25, 2012, 08:19:08 PM
In Order of Hatred,
...
3 Ohio State Buckeyes
...
Not #1 on your list, O Michigander? :bigass:
Nope I like the Chippewas :D
The only team I don't like is Scuderia Ferrari, for reasons described earlier in the thread ("Fernando is faster than you" being a prime example), plus they're (one of) the traditional rivals to McLaren, my favorite F1 team.
Team China and it's athlete mills.
Team Australia is normally good for some banterous rivalry, but currently they are so pitiful there's little point.*
Also the fictional Team EU which will make an outing when various EU bigwigs say "we won 50+ golds" (using current total). As well as being a nation that only a handful of people think exists, it's cheating to have up to 27 times the quota of athletes/teams in each competition - and that's not cancelled out by the ability for a Team EU to make a conglomerate team.
*not least as they are letting down the side of the fictional 'Team the-Queen-reigns-here' - Jamaica's 2 so far is putting in as many golds as Australia and Canada combined, and New Zealand is putting in a handsome 3 to give a total of 23.
Quote from: english si on August 05, 2012, 06:04:45 PM
Team China and it's athlete mills.
Wonder if the Red Chinese might have imported some athletic training "talent" from the now-defunct East Germany? Of course, the Chinese have an enormously larger population to start with.
Quote from: english si on August 05, 2012, 06:04:45 PM
Team Australia is normally good for some banterous rivalry, but currently they are so pitiful there's little point.*
Also the fictional Team EU which will make an outing when various EU bigwigs say "we won 50+ golds" (using current total). As well as being a nation that only a handful of people think exists, it's cheating to have up to 27 times the quota of athletes/teams in each competition - and that's not cancelled out by the ability for a Team EU to make a conglomerate team.
*not least as they are letting down the side of the fictional 'Team the-Queen-reigns-here' - Jamaica's 2 so far is putting in as many golds as Australia and Canada combined, and New Zealand is putting in a handsome 3 to give a total of 23.
Always happy when athletes from any of our English-speaking friendly nations win a medal. Them and the Nordic nations.
Quote from: njroadhorse on July 31, 2012, 10:31:18 AM
Think I might have to revise mine since I first posted it:
1. Philadelphia Flyers
2. Boston Red Sox
3. Baltimore Ravens
4. Virginia Cavaliers
5. Washington Capitals
6. Philadelphia Phillies
7. Miami Heat
8. Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim
9. Clemson Tigers
10. Los Angeles Lakers/Detroit Red Wings
I like UVA, it being a Virginia school and all that, but I am sick and tired of the Cavaliers games always pre-empting scheduled talk radio programs on WRVA 1140 in Richmond. Leaves bad taste in my throat concerning UVA Cavaliers (a taste of spew in the back of my throat).
The Magic now after Dwight got himself traded. Plus the took the City of Orlando for a lot when they built a brand new arena to replace another brand new arena.
Just happened upon this thread, and I thought I'd bump it with March Madness and the baseball season being hot topics of discussion. In honor of the devil's number 6, here is my top 6:
1. New York Yankees (of course)
2. Duke Men's Basketball
3. The Hollywood Fakers
4. The South Beach Heat
5. Carolina Whalercanes (although I respect a couple of members of the organization from the Hartford days)
6. University of Tennessee Lady Vols
I hate any team named FC Barcelona regardless of sport. They are everywhere! Still have to find a team sport where they are missing.
Quote from: CNGL-Leudimin on March 24, 2013, 12:14:42 PMI hate any team named FC Barcelona regardless of sport. They are everywhere! Still have to find a team sport where they are missing.
here's some
- Cricket!
- Field Hockey - though their Ice and Roller Hockey teams might mean that it's too close for comfort.
- American Football
- Rugby Sevens - though they can easily knock up a team from their Rugby teams of either code (Union and League)
- Ultimate Frisbee
- Baseball/Softball
- Water Polo
- Volleyball
- Dodgeball
Quote from: english si on March 24, 2013, 02:56:15 PMhere's some- Cricket!
- Field Hockey - though their Ice and Roller Hockey teams might mean that it's too close for comfort.
- American Football
- Rugby Sevens - though they can easily knock up a team from their Rugby teams of either code (Union and League)
- Ultimate Frisbee
- Baseball/Softball
- Water Polo
- Volleyball
- Dodgeball
... Quidditch. But that is already a lot of sports! Next time I should read again the volleyball league team list :banghead:. Barça has teams in two out of Big 4 sports.
Association Football, Futsal, Rubgy Union, Rugby League, Ice Hockey, Handball, Basketball, Roller Hockey, various Para-sports (wheelchair basketball, boccia...), track and field...
I did struggle to think of team sports that they didn't have a team for (Gaelic, Canadian and Aussie Rules Football being three more. Shinty, Hurling and Lacrosse being another three. Netball, Rounders and Benchball being a third additional three).
Big 4 being the American Big 4 (American Football, Ice Hockey, Baseball, Basketball), I take it. They have 3 of the British Big 4 (Association Football, Rugby Union, Rugby League, Cricket).
They also have (or had, I don't know if it still exists) a Superleague Formula team, so that includes auto racing as well.
1. Biased NASCAR "fans"! (most of them, anyway)
2. Anti-Dale, Junior pundits saying he can't win a championship and he's not like his father!
3. Nationwhackers! (or traditionally, teams that "Buschwhack" in the times of the NASCAR Busch Series)
4. Chivas USA
5. Major League Baseball!
I can't think of anything else at the moment.
please... no sexual profanity
Baseball:
NY Yankees
NY Mets
Boston Red Sox
Washington Nationals
San Francisco Giants
Los Angeles Angels, or any team that simply buys talent.
Football:
New England Patriots
Any team from the NFC East
New Orleans Saints
Green Bay Packers
San Francisco 49ers
College:
Georgia
Clemson
The Big Ten, in general.
USC
Notre Dame, especially after last season.
Duke (BB only)
My most hated? Easy! All Boston area teams. Enough said. :)
P.S. It's already in my signature! :-P
Anything Detroit
Green Bay Packers
Miami Heat
Minnesota Twins (Twinkies as a slang)
Chicago Cubs
Toledo Rockets (MAC East FBS)
Wisconsin Badgers (Saying that NIU sucks during the 2011 season when The Badgers lost their conference and Rose Bowl, and NIU won our Conference and GoDaddy Bowl. NIU now going into a possible 3-peat out of a possible 4 appearances and was ranked ahead of the drunken Badgers for the bowl season)
Anything New York
Anything Philadelphia
I have a whole top 25:
1) Alabama (NCAA)
2) Washington Redskins (change the name already)
3) OU (NCAA)
4) a & m (NCAA)
5) Boston Red Sox
6) Notre Dame (NCAA)
7) San Diego Chargers (always boring players, glad they never win)
8) Minnesota Vikings (how a team can be so good and so bad for 40 years)
9) Chicago Cubs (Steve Bartman lives)
10) Nebraska (NCAA)
11) KC Royals (just dull)
12) Philadelphia Eagles
13) Cleveland Browns (its not a gap, youre an expansion team)
14) Milwaukee Brewers
15) Stanford (NCAA)
16) Iowa (NCAA)
17) Atlanta Falcons
18) Nashville Predators (Chris Hanson's favorite team?)
19) Minnesota Twins
20) USC (NCAA)
21) Ohio State (NCAA)
22) OKC Thunder
23) NE Patriots
24) Boston Celtics
25) LA Angels of Anaheim of California of the US of the Universe (pick a name and go with it)
26) Cleveland Indians (change the logo already)
Quote from: CNGL-Leudimin on March 24, 2013, 12:14:42 PM
I hate any team named FC Barcelona regardless of sport. They are everywhere! Still have to find a team sport where they are missing.
or any team with "FC" in their name
Quote from: texaskdog on June 28, 2013, 08:20:59 AM
14) Milwaukee Brewers
That's interesting. How does a guy from Texas come to hate on small market, upper Midwest teams like this (and the ones from Minnesota) that have never really been all that good? I totally get people hating the Pack, cuz, well, they're perennial playoff participants, but the Boozers? It's because of Ryan Braun, isn't it?
Well I'll just say that the anomalous PED test is flanked by clean ones with no deviation in output.
Quote from: ET21Wisconsin Badgers (Saying that NIU sucks during the 2011 season when The Badgers lost their conference and Rose Bowl, and NIU won our Conference and GoDaddy Bowl. NIU now going into a possible 3-peat out of a possible 4 appearances and was ranked ahead of the drunken Badgers for the bowl season)
And how about this year's Default Bowl? Truly a proud season for Bucky...
I can't get too passionate about college sports because of the whole "exploitation" thing. Multi-billion dollar enterprise, but the 'student athletes' get in trouble for accepting free shoes; what a charade! At least they get an education... in "communications"... or "kinesiology". Those are good fall-back career paths after you tear your ACL.
I hate the Brewers because, living in Minnesota, I was a Twins fan 1979-1983 or so. At the time the Brewers were full of fat out of shape boring players like Gorman Thomas. Brewers is a good name..for a softball team. Plus, they should have stayed as the Seattle Pilots.
Quote from: texaskdog on June 28, 2013, 08:20:59 AM
19) Minnesota Twins
You may be the only person I've met that isn't a fan of a rival team that hates the Twins. I mean how can you hate them? They're completely harmless and they almost never get involved in any types of scandals.
EDIT: "You" referring to the people in this thread as a whole.
While I'm on the thread...
MLB: New York Yankees, Boston Red Sox, Chicago White Sox
NBA: I can't hate the Celtics anymore because they lost all their stars
NFL: New York Jets (quit with all the fucking pointless drama)
NHL: Can't hate on anyone :)
NCAA: Iowa Hawkeyes, Ohio State Buckeyes
Apologies for not posting this in the first post
Quote from: TCN7JM on July 15, 2013, 06:59:44 PM
Quote from: texaskdog on June 28, 2013, 08:20:59 AM
19) Minnesota Twins
You may be the only person I've met that isn't a fan of a rival team that hates the Twins. I mean how can you hate them? They're completely harmless and they almost never get involved in any types of scandals.
EDIT: "You" referring to the people in this thread as a whole.
Some old-timers from Washington surely hate the Twins because they were originally the Senators but moved away. Well before my time, though.
Texas A&M with Johnny Deflatedballs is steadily climbing my list,
Last night reminded me to add: Any broadcasting team that includes Chris Berman
Everybody outside of the states bordering Texas – except for bandwagoners and transplants – hates the Dallas Cowboys. Taken on a national level, it's not even close.
Quote from: cabiness42 on July 16, 2013, 07:32:58 AM
Last night reminded me to add: Any broadcasting team that includes Chris Berman
Hey, that's mean. You'd better take that back.
(back back back back back back back back back back back back back back back back back back back back back)
speaking of broadcasting and other personnel not involving the players themselves: I went to a baseball game in person for the first time in several years (Dodgers at Rockies, July 4), and every half-inning there was some kind of oil-slick overproduced promotion for some bank or car dealer or yet another set of assholes. whatever happened to going to a baseball game and watching some baseball? so, the most hated team for me: the marketing team.
Quote from: agentsteel53 on July 16, 2013, 01:14:13 PM
speaking of broadcasting and other personnel not involving the players themselves: I went to a baseball game in person for the first time in several years (Dodgers at Rockies, July 4), and every half-inning there was some kind of oil-slick overproduced promotion for some bank or car dealer or yet another set of assholes. whatever happened to going to a baseball game and watching some baseball? so, the most hated team for me: the marketing team.
I'm always far more irritated that they stop selling beer toward the end of the game. How am I supposed to get through another boring two innings of baseball without beer?
Any team that allowed itself to be dubbed "America's Team".
Quote from: The High Plains Traveler on July 16, 2013, 03:24:36 PMAny team that allowed itself to be dubbed "America's Team".
What about Team USA at the Olympics, or the national Soccer team?
They are the team of America (the country, not the continent(s)), after all...
Quote from: kurumi on July 16, 2013, 11:22:45 AM
Quote from: cabiness42 on July 16, 2013, 07:32:58 AM
Last night reminded me to add: Any broadcasting team that includes Chris Berman
Hey, that's mean. You'd better take that back.
(back back back back back back back back back back back back back back back back back back back back back)
The annoying thing about the "back back back" schtick is that Berman, and most of the other announcers who do it, are doing it incorrectly. Red Barber is usually credited as originating that call when he was describing Al Gionfriddo's famous catch in Game 6 of the 1947 World Series. Barber was describing Gionfriddo racing out to the outfield wall to rob Joe DiMaggio of a hit and he used the word "back" six or seven times in following the fielder out to the wall. "Back" makes sense because the wall is to the fielder's back when the pitch is thrown. Berman is following the ball, so the word "back" doesn't make any sense at all because when you hit the ball, it's only going "back" if you foul it off back behind the plate. Part of why Barber's version of the call is classic is that he was relating that what made Gionfriddo's play great wasn't just the catch but the fact that he was able to get to it at all. Compare that to the announcers like Mel Allen: "It's going, going–caught up against the wall." You never knew the fielder was anywhere near the wall in the first place because Allen was following the ball rather than the fielder.
You can hear Barber's famous call at this link. (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=19054891)
Quote from: english si on July 16, 2013, 04:03:21 PM
Quote from: The High Plains Traveler on July 16, 2013, 03:24:36 PMAny team that allowed itself to be dubbed "America's Team".
What about Team USA at the Olympics, or the national Soccer team?
They are the team of America (the country, not the continent(s)), after all...
Make that "any professional team", who competed against other professional teams located in the U.S. There are examples in both football and baseball.
Quote from: 1995hoo on July 15, 2013, 09:43:51 PM
Quote from: TCN7JM on July 15, 2013, 06:59:44 PM
Quote from: texaskdog on June 28, 2013, 08:20:59 AM
19) Minnesota Twins
You may be the only person I've met that isn't a fan of a rival team that hates the Twins. I mean how can you hate them? They're completely harmless and they almost never get involved in any types of scandals.
EDIT: "You" referring to the people in this thread as a whole.
Some old-timers from Washington surely hate the Twins because they were originally the Senators but moved away. Well before my time, though.
And not that many years after the first Senators departed D.C. to become the Twins, the expansion Senators franchise left for Texas. I don't think D.C.-area fans have that much animosity against either - the one where the hatred still burns hot (among fans of the former Baltimore Colts) is for the late Robert Irsay and his move of the Colts to Indiana.
When the Colts visit the Ravens in Baltimore, the scoreboard
never reads
Colts, always just
Indy.
I think more than anything, I don't watch a lot of sports and I'm not that big of a sports fan unlike most others around me simply because I just hate the way things are being blown over when they shouldn't be, the way that certain people have to give preferential treatment, and people who "know" any sport when deep down they don't appreciate it enough to know it. Some other thoughts:
- The more I think about the Aaron Hernandez case, the more I start to hate the Patriots and that's the only team in my opinion that I hate in the NFL.
- Another nuance I hate are certain pundits who gave Yasiel Puig the shaft saying he didn't deserve to play in the All-Star. Bullshit! Puig is just as good of a player, albeit a shy player, with the best combination of stats to play in the All-Star and perhaps the World Series if the Dodgers get their act together.
- The NFL itself is getting more garish the more we hear about players being arrested for numerous charges. The season isn't beginning yet, and already, more than a dozen players since the Super Bowl have been cuffed. That's just mind boggling.
- I once considered Lance Armstrong a hero, but then when I discovered that he was charged with doping and the cycling community gave all seven of his Tour de France titles the shaft, I now call him a coward. He deserves to be named a coward for doping and trying to hide it like we didn't know. Yeah, thanks, Lance, you punk coward! You ain't no hero anymore! Forget it. You're just a Z E R O!
When I hear people say they hate the Yankees because they win too much and use their money to do it, I wonder why they don't simply hate on Major League Baseball, whose structure is basically set up to make this feasible.
Boston fans hated the Yankees for buying championships, oddly claiming solidarity with the Pittsburghs and Kansas Cities of the world. Then they bought a couple of their own and found they liked the practice just fine (sorry, KC and company).
In a system where the largest market generates the most money and the salary market is essentially unregulated, New York will always be in the best position to win. Baseball is pretty much designed to have a very good Yankees team almost always.
If you hate that the Yankees dominate, your enemy is named Selig more than it is Steinbrenner.
Quote from: Pete from Boston on July 21, 2013, 09:29:23 AM
When I hear people say they hate the Yankees because they win too much and use their money to do it, I wonder why they don't simply hate on Major League Baseball, whose structure is basically set up to make this feasible.
Boston fans hated the Yankees for buying championships, oddly claiming solidarity with the Pittsburghs and Kansas Cities of the world. Then they bought a couple of their own and found they liked the practice just fine (sorry, KC and company).
In a system where the largest market generates the most money and the salary market is essentially unregulated, New York will always be in the best position to win. Baseball is pretty much designed to have a very good Yankees team almost always.
If you hate that the Yankees dominate, your enemy is named Selig more than it is Steinbrenner.
Go back to the late 1940s and 1950s, when the three New York teams dominated. In 1947, 1949, 1952, 1953, 1955, and 1956 the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Yankees met in the World Series; in 1951 the New York Giants played the Yankees; in 1950, 1957, and 1958 the Yankees played out-of-town opponents; and in 1954 the Giants played an out-of-town opponent. Oddly, the only time the Dodgers played an opponent other than the Yankees in the World Series were 1916 and 1920–throughout their goofy years, they kept running into the Yankees and losing (except for 1955).
My mother was a teacher in Northern Virginia until she retired a few years back and one of her male colleagues–whom I presume to be quite young because of what he asked her!–asked whether her family rooted for "the Yankees or the Mets" when she was growing up. She replied that she grew up in Brooklyn and you rooted for either the Yankees or the Dodgers. Apparently he was quite startled. I told her she should have thanked him for the compliment in thinking she was so much younger than she is, but she said it was pretty clear from his reaction that he was just ignorant of baseball history! (My mom grew up in Bay Ridge. My father grew up in Flatbush and was just old enough to be allowed to go to Ebbets Field by himself when the Dodgers folded.)
Quote from: 1995hoo on July 21, 2013, 10:35:13 AM
My mother was a teacher in Northern Virginia until she retired a few years back and one of her male colleagues–whom I presume to be quite young because of what he asked her!–asked whether her family rooted for "the Yankees or the Mets" when she was growing up. She replied that she grew up in Brooklyn and you rooted for either the Yankees or the Dodgers. Apparently he was quite startled. I told her she should have thanked him for the compliment in thinking she was so much younger than she is, but she said it was pretty clear from his reaction that he was just ignorant of baseball history! (My mom grew up in Bay Ridge. My father grew up in Flatbush and was just old enough to be allowed to go to Ebbets Field by himself when the Dodgers folded.)
A colleague (now retired) was born and raised in Brooklyn, N.Y. and a Dodgers fan. He's told me stories of the first time the Dodgers won a World Series in 1955, and of getting into fights with (N.Y.) Giants fans at their home park, sometimes called the Polo Grounds. The rivalry between the N.Y. Giants and the Brooklyn Dodgers was every bit as spirited as the one between the Bronx Yankees and the Boston Red Sox, probably made more intense by both teams playing in the same league and being physically so close to each other.
According to him, the reaction in 1957 among Brooklyn Dodgers fan when the team announced they were moving to Los Angeles was one of disbelief, perhaps in part because the team had so recently (and after decades of futility) won a World Series.
As you probably know, someone from Brooklyn, N.Y. never says they are from "New York."
Always Brooklyn.
Quote from: cpzilliacus on July 21, 2013, 01:50:40 PM
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As you probably know, someone from Brooklyn, N.Y. never says they are from "New York." Always Brooklyn.
Indeed if one of my relatives from Bay Ridge headed into the city, they'd say "I'm going to New York," never "I'm going to Manhattan." Sort of similar to how signs on the Belt Parkway direct you east to Long Island even though you're already on that island.
Quote from: cpzilliacus on July 21, 2013, 01:50:40 PM
Quote from: 1995hoo on July 21, 2013, 10:35:13 AM
My mother was a teacher in Northern Virginia until she retired a few years back and one of her male colleagues–whom I presume to be quite young because of what he asked her!–asked whether her family rooted for "the Yankees or the Mets" when she was growing up. She replied that she grew up in Brooklyn and you rooted for either the Yankees or the Dodgers. Apparently he was quite startled. I told her she should have thanked him for the compliment in thinking she was so much younger than she is, but she said it was pretty clear from his reaction that he was just ignorant of baseball history! (My mom grew up in Bay Ridge. My father grew up in Flatbush and was just old enough to be allowed to go to Ebbets Field by himself when the Dodgers folded.)
A colleague (now retired) was born and raised in Brooklyn, N.Y. and a Dodgers fan. He's told me stories of the first time the Dodgers won a World Series in 1955, and of getting into fights with (N.Y.) Giants fans at their home park, sometimes called the Polo Grounds. The rivalry between the N.Y. Giants and the Brooklyn Dodgers was every bit as spirited as the one between the Bronx Yankees and the Boston Red Sox, probably made more intense by both teams playing in the same league and being physically so close to each other.
According to him, the reaction in 1957 among Brooklyn Dodgers fan when the team announced they were moving to Los Angeles was one of disbelief, perhaps in part because the team had so recently (and after decades of futility) won a World Series.
As you probably know, someone from Brooklyn, N.Y. never says they are from "New York." Always Brooklyn.
Datelines from AP game stories in old newspapers right up until the Dodgers moved were always Brooklyn and never New York. Today, games at the Barclays Center (where the Brooklyn Nets play) are datelined New York.