I have found that i have a problem a few nfl teams. i have made a list of them and the reasons for hating them. Remember i am a falcons and steelers fan
Indianapolis-they just ditched baltimore for no reason
Tennesee-They have eddie george(aka ohio state menace)
New England-They beat okland on a completly screwed up call and the beat the steelers
I look at the “personality” of a team largely as an extension of the personality of the head coach. In that vein, here’s the teams I can’t stand…
Pittsburgh -
Coward is like a low-rent Sgt. Slaughter impersonator… What a whiney, loudmouth whiney bastard. Oh, did I mention he’s whiney?
Kordell “Slash(your wrists)” Stewart after porking the pooch against the Patriots. Oh, and does that explain losing AGAIN the next year to the Titans? Bet you’re glad to see Stewart gone. Replaced by the MVP of the XFL? Priceless…
Denver -
Can’t you just see Shanahan in front of the mirror late at night? “Are you… talkin’ to me? Are… you… talkin’ to me?” Someone needs to tell him to either lay off the strychnine or get over his Travis Bickle fixation. Everytime I see his wide-eyed “I can’t believe how unfair the referees are” gaze I get ill… Shanahan’s another whiney bitch. Also, Any team that could keep a jerk like Bill Romanowski gainfully employed and in possession of a “Get Out of Jail Free” card for all those years should be held liable when he kills someone one of these days. Yep, I know he’s in Oakland now. What a perfect fit.
I ran into a particularly odious Packers fan last weekend. She gave Packers fan everywhere a bad name, so right now they are on my list.
Typically the teams that were the most obnoxious are those that have enjoyed some amount of success, plus any team from the New York area, who traditionally don’t enjoy much success. So the Redskins were reviled, and the Cowboys, and the Raiders. Who could hate the Bucs when they were inept? Or the Rams before their recent Super Bowl success? But now their coach, Mike “Mad as a Hatter” Martz draws a lot of ire. The Broncos are on my list now too, not so much for their team, but for their idiot liar of a coach. Shanahan is the Fantasy Football player’s nightmare incarnate, since he regularly lies about his players’ health and injuries.
I guess the lousy teams have only their own fans to hate them. Ah, the good old days.
Weird, but I agree with previous posts, Denver showing up with white uniforms in an away game, and saying “we forgot to bring the assigned uniforms” is pretty lame.
You are a Falcons AND Steelers fan, and you think you can attack other teams for being annoying? Dude, get off the bandwagon, pick one team, and go with it. You’re only allowed one team.
People who are fans of the Giants, and the Cowboys, and the Packers when they’re good, and I’ve loved the Bucs since week 7 of last year, and the Niners are the best team in sports, Go VIKINGS! are way worse than any fumble or team moving out of a town, or, in the case of the Jets, getting a coach from the greatest team in football and stealing their running back the next year.
Pittsburgh, for all the reasons mentioned above. Plus, I’m a Browns fan, born and raised, and we just. can’t. seem. to. beat. the. STEELERS! @##^@!@!!!
The Ravens, though less so now than the year they went to the Super Bowl. They were so full of cocky bullshit that year, I just prayed for someone to blow out Ray Lewis’ knee and shut them all up.
I used to really hate the Bengals. They were just so bad, so consistently, that I felt there must be some type of deliberate effort to suck on their part. I mean, no team could achieve such spectacular mediocrity so consistently by accident.
But I’ve come full circle now. I’d probably root for them, if they weren’t in the same division as the Browns.
The Cowboys, for the same “America’s Team” bullshit someone mentioned above. In their Super Bowl days, all I could think while watching them was, God, what a bunch of strutting pricks.
But I’ve been rooting for Tampa Bay ever since Tony Dungy first turned the team around, and they got those kick-ass new uniforms. Don’t really care for Warren Sapp though. He should’ve at least apologized to Chad Clifton, or visited him in the hospital.
Below then, the Ravens and the Browns. Although, It’s hard to really hate teams that you keep kicking the snot out of (Go Steelers!) Over time the hatred turns to pity. I’m sure when one of these joker teams finally beats us it will heat up again.
i seemed to have touched a sensitive nerve when i said tampa bay. i really have no reason to dislike them(except they beat atlanta every time) and i repeal what i said.
I will always hate the Redskins. They always have some arrogant, presumptuous loudmouth associated with their team. Before it was Joe Theisman. Now it’s Steve Spurrier. I hate the cute nicknames for their bubble butt offensive line. I hate the fat cross-dressing fans with their pig noses. I hate their stupid tomahawk chops. I live in an area where the local TV stations are contracted to carry their games, so the only solace I get in having to watch their games is seeing them get beat.
Miami and San Francisco are also up there on my shit list, mainly because they always come back and beat my favorite teams when down by 35 points in the 4th quarter. Dallas is also up there for really no reason at all. The only time I root for them is when they play the Redskins.
I know that, as a Ravens fan, i’m meant to hate them. But with players like Jerome Bettis and Hines Ward on the team, i find that really hard to do. They’re a good team to watch, with some really great players, including a bunch of the best receivers around.
The only thing that puts me off them is the fans. They seem mainly to be a bunch of self-righteous, gloating, overconfident blowhards. But i’m not going to let that sour me on the team itself.
I really don’t hate any team in particular, although i do love to see Rich Gannon and Kurt Warner take a beating.
I don’t know why people single out certain coaches for so much criticism. As far as i can tell, being a whining egomaniac is just about a job requirement for an NFL coach. My own team’s coach, Brian Billick, certainly fits the bill.
Of course, the way the game works actually encourages this sort of prima donna attitude, with the coaches screaming at the officials from the sidelines when they don’t like the call. In my opinion, coaches should not even be allowed to talk to the officials during the game. Throw the challenge flag, or don’t, but otherwise shut the fuck up. Officials should not have to justify their rulings to a coach, and the job done by the officials should be evaluated after the game by the NFL, not during the game by a partisan windbag.
Anyone who isn’t a Viking draws my ire. Unless they are playing the Packers, then I’m their biggest fan (unless it affects the Vikings standings) But since you say most I guess I’d have to say Dallas. Runners up are:
Tampa Bay is only annoying due to all their bandwagon fans. When they get back to sucking, I’ll not be bothered by them.
I hate the Ravens only because Modell is the evil incarnate, but I’ve always been an admirer of Brian Billick, so That’s a tough call.
As a preemptive strike against Saints fans, I must mention them. All the Saints fans seem to have a special hate for the Vikings due to our squashing their playoff hopes so many times. They actually don’t bother me, but I have to defend my boys. They were just playing.
The Rams are currently suffering from some bandwagondom. They deserve is less than Tampa. Tampa at least had a history of long suffering fans.
BTW, I agree with you about coaches on the sidelines and their bitching. Cowher is very guilty of this.
As far as Pgh. fans being overconfident blowhards, doesn’t nearly every NFL fan think the same about the fans of their rival team? I tend to think the same of Cleveland and Baltimore Fans. Truth be told, I like it. Smack talking between fans is a small part of what makes football fun.
It’s been a year and nine months, and I still don’t understand this. If you’re pro-Raiders or anti-Pats and want to say that you didn’t LIKE the call, or even that you don’t like the “tuck rule,” fine. However, how can a call that was made in exact, strict accordance with the rule as it was written be “screwed up”?
To answer the question, I’m with you on the Cowboys, though. I second the motion on the New York teams as well. (Not only are the Giants from New York, which is annoying enough to many people, but they have traditionally been a boring team to watch–though not so much the past year or two, I must admit.) Boy, it was hard to watch Dallas vs. NYG a couple of weeks ago. Which team do I hate more? Tough call.
An original franchise that’s been in the same family for 80 years. It started out mediocre, it’s always been mediocre and it will always be medicore. They stunk in Chicago, they stunk in St. Louis and now they stink in the desert.
Poor drafting, poor players, poor coaching and a terrible front office.