Most hated teams ever in sports

[ET21]

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

[texaskdog]

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)

[texaskdog]

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

[triplemultiplex]

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.

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)

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.

[texaskdog]

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.

[TCN7JM]

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.

[TCN7JM]

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

[1995hoo]

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.

[TheHighwayMan3561]

Texas A&M with Johnny Deflatedballs is steadily climbing my list,

[NWI_Irish96]

Last night reminded me to add:  Any broadcasting team that includes Chris Berman

[Road Hog]

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.

[kurumi]

Last night reminded me to add:  Any broadcasting team that includes Chris Berman

Hey, that's mean. You'd better take that back.

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[agentsteel53]

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.

[realjd]

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?

[The High Plains Traveler]

Any team that allowed itself to be dubbed "America's Team".

[english si]

Any 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...

[1995hoo]

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.

[The High Plains Traveler]

Any 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.

[cpzilliacus]

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.

[Billy F 1988]

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!

[Pete from Boston]

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.

[1995hoo]

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.)

[cpzilliacus]

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.

[1995hoo]

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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.

[Road Hog]

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.