I think a large part of the student body is from Suburban New Jersey.
I hate the Baltimore Oriole’s, their fans, and commentators. The way they go on about the 1996 ALCS (11 years after the fact) one would think that the Jeffry Maier incident came with two out in the bottom of the ninth inning in game seven of the ALCS, single handedly delivering victory to Yankees and depriving the O’s of an assured World Series ring. In fact, just to refresh your memories, it was a game tying solo home run in the eighth inning of game one (won by the Yankees in 11 innings) in a series that the Yankees won 4 games to 1. Get over it.
I don’t have any particular hatred of a team, but the fans from Boston are hands down the most annoying people I have ever encountered. What makes them even more irritating, NONE OF THEM ACTUALLY LIVE IN BOSTON! They move somewhere that doesn’t suck, but cling to their sports teams and infest local stadiums across the country. If I attend a game as a fan of the visiting team, I quietly cheer for my team and respect the people around me. Boston fans decide it’s their job to shit all over the home team’s stadium, being loud and obnoxious while their $150 million payroll team beats up on some team with 1/3 their cash. Morons.
Perfectly understandable. Oddly, though I’m a lifelong Buckeyes fan (born on campus, even), I’ve always liked Michigan except on the day of the big game. So you’ll get no assault from me.
Let me add to the Steelers pile-on: I grew up in southern Ohio and hating the Steelers has always been part of my personal identity. The hate runs deep. I hate it when they win and love it when they lose. They lost last week. I loved it.
And although the Reds aren’t in the same division anymore, I’ll always hate the Dodgers.
YES, YES and YES. Thanks to the glories of the Center Ice Package this team has become my most hated in all of sports. They are goons that do not embrace the sportsmanship that hockey has a long history of. I watch thier games just to get angry and cheer for the team that is playing them. I actully hope that one of them gets hurt. I hate the flyers.
This coming from a hockey fan that, until recently, was only able to watch the Avs and whoever versus showed. So there is not a rivalry reason or a long term history behind this hatred.
Of course it’s not rational, I’ve known that from the beginning. The '86 World Series was one of the pivotal sports events of my yoot, the first one where I may have actually been losing sleep in anticipation. So when the team I supported lost, I was crushed, and the emotional residue (I wouldn’t go so far as to call it a scar, it’s still just a game) left behind was overwhelming antipathy toward the team that won.
If I’d been born ten years earlier, I’d probably be saying I hated the Reds.
The Dallas Cowboys. I don’t follow the team, watch the games, or care about who makes up the roster or their various qualities. My reasons for disliking the team are entirely due to the mess it makes of the traffic in my area when they play a home game. And that they have made my Thanksgiving day a hell for the past several years. Once they complete their new stadium I’m sure I’ll be fine with them.
Runner up would be the Byron Nelson golf tournament, because people have used our neighborhood as a park and ride and that pisses me off.
One could argue that both teams/events have been here longer than I have, but I’m not interested in being logical about this.
I don’t hate the Big Ten, but there’s certainly a reason non Big Ten fans derisively refer to their style of football as “three yards and a cloud of dust”.
Soooo overrated.
I hates me all them there LA pro teams. Dodjurs, Angels, . . . uhh, don’t care about basketball or hockey . . . Galaxy . . . what’s the Arena League team? And of course their NFL team isn’t worth working up a head of steam over.
What’s funny/ironic is that I went to UCLA. So I hate USC, of course.
But Stanford and Cal are so cute, so unthreatening. They’re the Zac Efrons of the Pac-10. Cal thinks they have a rivalry with us, but a long time ago we knocked them to the ground, took their colors and fight song, and doinked their girlfriends.
I actually liked the Steelers back in the 1970’s because they were fun to watch with Swann, Stallworth, Bradshaw, Harris and that defense (plus I was a kid, so I didn’t know any better while being forcefed the Redskins).
But this was all before I became a Bengals fan and prior to the arrival of mssrs Toothlessburger and Wines Hard.
How anyone in their right mind cannot see tha Ben is a huge douchebag wigger wannabe is beyond me. Have you ever seen the guy dress? Seen his Fathead commercial?
And Wines Hard, the dirtiest of the dirty…
And the Steelers players openly celebrating on the sidelines, laughing and pointing as Carson Palmer writhed on the ground in pain after Bill Cowturd sicced Kimo Von Assholen on Carson’s ACL, knowing that was the only way that the Squeelers were going to win that game in 2005.
Real class act, those Steelers…and their sister-humping fans.
Oh, and then there’s Duke, as a UK basketball fan (I know, they are horrible this year) I have reserved a special fantasy spot in hell for them and their ferret-faced coach.
Good old Gorrila Man…
Well I kinda hate Man Utd, but I thought everyone did; just didnt admit it in public, like mastubation or looking at your snot on the tissue. Trouble is i like the team - its Fergie and the fans I hate.
But mainly I really hate Whitehaven 3rds cricket team. Cheating, lying, bunch of miserable bastards who don’t even seem to like cricket; will do anything to avoid playing; and teach their own youngsters that cheating, bullying, intimidation and lying are appropriate ways to behave on a cricket ground. Come on God! pull your finger out and smite them down! The league did fuck all! We moved to another league rather than play Arthur Brown and his cheating lying band of lying cheaty liars who spoil any attempt to play Gods own game by (did I mention) cheating; lying; threatening; bullying; lying and cheating.
We played there during the Olympics when the dude ran out of the crowd and prevented the Irish(?) marathon runner from winning gold. Arthur said, ‘If that runner was my brother, that bloke would now be dead, and by nightfall his family would be dead.’
'I said, ‘Fuck me Arthur I knew you thought you were special but are you mobbed up? Living in a remote part of west Cumbria in the north of England? You can get people killed in foriegn countries at a few hours notice? Jeez - you the man!’
Not a team in the sense of NFL, MLB, etc., but…when he was alive I thoroughly despised Dale Earnhardt. I was always delighted when he had mechanical trouble and finished 38th, or better yet, when he crashed out because someone else was as thuggish a driver as he was.
Yes, I know he is dead now, but that doesn’t diminish his assholicism when he was racing. Don’t speak ill of the dead? Why the hell not in his case?
The very first NASCAR Race I went to was in 1988 at Riverside, where we were seated next to a verminous clutch of Earnhardt fans. Drunk, dirty, obnoxious, having all the class of a bunch of warthogs in heat, I wanted so much for security to bring in the animal control people to haul them away for euthanasing, after which that section of the bleachers would be burned.
It pains me to admit that Earnhardt was one of the great race drivers in NASCAR history, and I am glad I got the opportunity to see him at the height of his powers. And I was saddened to see him killed at Daytona. Still, he was an asshole, and I hope he is now driving the worst stock car in hell.
Could not have said it better. The Prince-Consort Bruin found that quite hysterical just now.
Except I’m with the Dodgers. Sorry.
I should qualify: most of the USC alumni I know (with a few exceptions, but we Bruins are not all perfect either) have been perfectly good people that I am more than happy to share a pitcher of beer with. That is, by the way, rarefied air. I don’t share beer with many people.
I mostly hate their recent hangers-on. I’ll be wearing my UCLA gear - because I freakin’ GO there, so it’s part of my regular rotation - and some damn clerk in Wal-Mart goes off on me because “UCLA sucks, USC is so much better, blah blah blah.” I have a habit of moving the UCLA gear to cover the 'SC gear at Wal Mart now. I even did it tonight out of habit. Oh well, I guess I’m destined to be an asshole forever.
I became a Calgary Flames fan early on mostly because I went out to Calgary a few times a year b/c my mom’s family is there. Because I lived a few hours from Toronto (roughly 150kms Southwest down the 401 in a rather large grey house about five minutes off of the 401 - happy Leaffan?), my dad would take me to Leafs game on occasion. It was simply too far to drive to go to Calgary for games, so Toronto it was.
On the ride there dad explained Harold Ballard to me and his complete lack of desire to field (or ice…) a winning team. At that point it just mystified me that there would be any Leafs fans out there at all. Who would love a team who’s number one goal wasn’t to win? At that point it was more of a lack of respect for leafs fans because throughout it all they sold out all of their games. I just didn’t understand it and I still don’t.
Ever since that playoff run in the early nineties, we deal with Leafs fans believing that it is their divine right to win the Stanley cup every single despite the fact that they haven’t won ANYTHING in 4 decades. Heck they haven’t been to a finals in almost that long.
Incidentally, when the Sens came into existence I started to cheer for them as well (still a Flames fan) mostly to spite the Leafs. When they sucked they were easy to cheer for because you know that with all of their number one picks that they’ll be good eventually.
Well, not almost, that long exactly. They last won the Stanley Cup in 1967, when there were just six teams in the league, and have never made the Finals since.
Wouldn’t it be easier to just hate Chris Berman? That’s what I did.
My list includeds:
The Kansas City Chiefs. I have worked with a guy for years that is a Chiefs fan and because of him I hate the team. Since the Seahawks moved to the NFC and the Chiefs suck hind titty, work has been much more pleasant during the football season.
The Oakland A’s. Ugliest uniforms in baseball.
The Portland Trailblazers. A local radio show talking head has suggested sports fans in the Seattle area think about embracing the Blazers just in case the Sonics do move to Oklahoma City. Uggh.
The sport of hockey. Makes absolutely no sense to me.
