# Personal Sports Team Rankings **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 21, 2007, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personal-sports-team-rankings/423499 "2007-10-21T20:25:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Boozahol\_Squid\_P.I](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d9b06d/32.png) [@Boozahol\_Squid\_P.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boozahol_Squid_P.I)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2007, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personal-sports-team-rankings/423499/41 "2007-10-22T08:23:31Z")
[QUOTE=ZipperJJ] MLB: NFL: 1. **Cleveland Browns**. They drive me bananas. I don’t love them half as much as I love the Tribe. But you can’t be from Cleveland and not love to hate those Browns. … 5,572. **Pittsburgh Steelers**. I hate them more than any pro sports team ever. Pittsburgh just…sucks. [/QUOTE] Steelers at 5monkeyspawn, shitlick, Art-Modellian Ratb572? Where, praytell, do you put the Ratbirds, then? The Steelers and their fans can’t help they’re cretinous, cheating inbred morons, but the Ravens intend their skulking cowardice! I can pretty much rank my sports alliegences across sports, as I don’t mess around with sports bigamy much. 1. Cleveland Browns 2. Cleveland Indians 3. Carolina Hurricanes 4. Duke Blue Devils basketball (Mr. Duke pays the bills) 5. Notre Dame football (what can I say, I grew up Catholic on the shores of the Great Lakes) ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2007, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personal-sports-team-rankings/423499/42 "2007-10-22T14:09:46Z")
[QUOTE=Diomedes] Steelers at 5monkeyspawn, shitlick, Art-Modellian Ratb572? Where, praytell, do you put the Ratbirds, then? The Steelers and their fans can’t help they’re cretinous, cheating inbred morons, but the Ravens intend their skulking cowardice! [/QUOTE] Ah but remember, I have 28 years of experience hating Pittsburgh and only 11 of hating Baltimore. And about five of those years were taken up by a seething rage for Model. Sometimes I wake up on Sundays and just think “Oy - Pittsburgh sucks!” I’m so busy hating the Steelers, I forget to be able to hate the Ravens. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2007, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personal-sports-team-rankings/423499/43 "2007-10-22T14:56:28Z")
[QUOTE=ZipperJJ] Ah but remember, I have 28 years of experience hating Pittsburgh and only 11 of hating Baltimore. And about five of those years were taken up by a seething rage for Model. Sometimes I wake up on Sundays and just think “Oy - Pittsburgh sucks!” I’m so busy hating the Steelers, I forget to be able to hate the Ravens. [/QUOTE] When I followed football and was a Browns fan, I liked Pittsburgh. If the Browns couldn’t win, I wanted Pittsburgh to win. Now I don’t follow football (the move definitely killed my interest in the NFL). ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2007, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personal-sports-team-rankings/423499/44 "2007-10-22T16:22:42Z")
I love Giants, Jets, Rangers. I kinda sorta root for Mets, Knicks. I hate Eagles, Ravens, Redskins, Islanders, Cowboys, Charger fans All lists in most-to-least order. ---
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2007, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personal-sports-team-rankings/423499/45 "2007-10-22T17:01:47Z")
Can I actually surprise you with the idea that I thought everyone hated the Patriots? Even though they have hardly been mentioned? Oh, and that was a brilliant weekend for NE sports fans. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2007, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personal-sports-team-rankings/423499/46 "2007-10-22T18:09:56Z")
[QUOTE=bbs2k] Can I actually surprise you with the idea that I thought everyone hated the Patriots? Even though they have hardly been mentioned? Oh, and that was a brilliant weekend for NE sports fans. [/QUOTE] Patriots are new comers to be hated. Brady is hard to hate. Cowboys, Raiders, San Fran spent years earning peoples hatred. Patriots are just going to have to try harder. Eagles, \*\*Giants \*\* and Skins are only hated by their division rivals. I think most of us develop both our hates and loves as kids and teens. So the Pats should be training up a new generation to hate them the way my generation hates the Cowboys and Niners. Jim ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2007, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personal-sports-team-rankings/423499/47 "2007-10-22T18:37:56Z")
College Football 1- Michigan State 2- Michigan 3-10 Rest of Big Ten except Ohio State 11- Ohio State 12- Central Michigan 13- Eastern Michigan 14- Western Michigan 15-107 Rest of NCAA except SEC 108-117 Rest of SEC except Florida, LSU 118- LSU 119- Florida NHL 1- Detroit 2- Montreal 3- Toronto 4- Ottawa 5- Edmonton 6- Calgary 7- Edmonton 8-10 Rest of Original Six Teams E of Mississippi and N of Tennessee Western US teams Southern US teams Baseball 1- New York Yankeees 2- Detroit 2-29 All others but Red Sox 30- Boston ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2007, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personal-sports-team-rankings/423499/48 "2007-10-22T19:14:34Z")
1. Dallas Cowboys - I mean c’mon… Roger Staubach, Walt Garrison, Calvin Hill, DD Lewis, Bullet Bob Hayes, Lee Roy Jordan, Cliff Harris, Charlie Waters, Randy White, Troy Aikman, etc. See, you just gotta block Jerry Jones and TO right out. 2. Houston Texans - It’s a lesson in humility. Doh + 4. Broncos (3 words… Mother-in-law) Doh + 3. Patriots Doh + 2. Ravens Doh + 1. Redskins Depths of hell + 0. Eagles ---
**Author:** ![Thing\_Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecb155/32.png) [@Thing\_Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing_Fish)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2007, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personal-sports-team-rankings/423499/49 "2007-10-22T19:48:02Z")
1. Oregon Ducks (alma mater) 2. Chicago Cubs (current residence) 3. Chicago Bears 4. Chicago Bulls 5. San Francisco 49ers (former residence) 6. Pittsburgh Steelers (family) 7. San Francisco Giants 8. Portland Trailblazers 9. New York Giants (marriage) 10. Chicago Fire 11. Cleveland Indians (distant family, pity factor, rivals of White Sox) 12. Cal Bears Dislike: OSU Beavers, UW Huskies, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Michigan (still can’t figure out what to do when they play each other!), USC, UCLA Really can’t stand: Yankees, Dodgers, Angels, Braves, White Sox, Packers. Red Sox rapidly approaching this level. Just plain hate with all my being: Raiders Even worse than the Raiders, if such a thing were possible: Cowboys. ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2007, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personal-sports-team-rankings/423499/50 "2007-10-22T19:49:12Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] I bleed Dodger Blue. … 1. **Padres, Rockies, Diamondbacks** - The rest of the NLWest, who I like as a whole and will root for so long as they aren’t playing #1 or #2. [/QUOTE] Well then you probably shouldn’t for their most direct competitors and division rivals. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Chingon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chingon/32/17645_2.png) [@Chingon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chingon)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2007, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personal-sports-team-rankings/423499/51 "2007-10-22T20:17:34Z")
1. Kansas State Wildcats (alma mater, BOLD and DARING!) 2. Auburn Tigers (grad school, gf’s team) General disdain for ACC and Big East schools I hate the following: (In increasing intensity) All $EC teams (save Arkansas and the above Auburn) Every big televen school (save Northwestern and Indiana (only in football)) Notre Dame, Alabama, Oklahoma, Texas, Missouri, Nebraska, . . . . . Kansas (puke) ---
**Author:** ![FlightlessBird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/cdc98d/32.png) [@FlightlessBird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlightlessBird)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2007, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personal-sports-team-rankings/423499/52 "2007-10-22T20:34:00Z")
I keep it simple 1. Where I’m from 2. Where I’m at 3. Where I’ve been 1- Dallas so Cowboys, Stars, Mavs, Rangers 2- LA so Kings, Ducks, Dodgers, Clippers, Dodgers, Angels, Lakers 3- A few different places so as long as they’re not playing the above teams And then the bottom of the list, are those that have rivalries with the above NFC East, Red Wings, Yankees, most SouthEastern teams, Niners, Packers, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2007, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personal-sports-team-rankings/423499/53 "2007-10-22T20:38:34Z")
**Baseball:** 1. The Cards: they’re my hometown team. Plus, any organization that has included Stan Musial gets bonus points. 2. Teams where the pitchers are actual baseball players (that is, the NL). 3. The AL. 4. The Yankees and Red Sox are both equally tiresome. **Hockey** 1. The Blues. Hey, they don’t suck this year! Yet. 2. Really any other hockey team. I can’t work up much bile for any of them. Maybe the Red Wings, but mostly because they just consistently beat my poor Blues. I’m not aware of any other sports being played in the US. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2007, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personal-sports-team-rankings/423499/54 "2007-10-22T21:00:24Z")
For me, for both football and baseball, the top of the list goes: Cleveland Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Wisconsin Cincinnatti Cleveland is where I’m from, and you just have to root for your home team. Even Atlanta fans are justified, if that’s where they’re from. So, Indians and Browns My family’s from western PA, and I went to undergrad in Philadelphia. I figure both cities rank about equally, so I resolve the question by rooting for the Steelers over the Eagles, but the Phillies over the Pirates. I like the Packers because I think the notion of a community-owned team is just so cool, and I’m grateful to the Brewers for all of those times back in the 80s when they provided an opponent the Indians could actually beat. And I’ll root for Cincinnatti just because it’s still my home state, even if not city. Lately, I’ve been rooting a lot for Seattle, too, because there are a fair number of folks from Seattle around here, so if I’m watching the game with them, I’ll root for their team to be polite. Near the bottom of my list for both sports is Atlanta, because from what I’ve seen, Atlantans just can’t appreciate their sports teams. The last time Cleveland and Atlanta faced each other in the World Series, the Cleveland tickets sold out in February from people advance-ordering them just in case we made it. The Atlanta tickets were still being sold at the gate at the start of the game. There’s something wrong with any city that can’t sell out a World Series game. For baseball, that’s the bottom of my list, but for football, the Broncos and the Ravens are even lower. The Broncos because there were just too many times when they kept the Browns from reaching the Super Bowl, and I don’t think any Clevelander needs explanation for the Ravens. In between, I mostly go by geography. I’ll generally favor the Midwest over the Eastern Seaboard, the East over the South, and the rest of the South over anywhere in Texas. If it’s a couple of teams I don’t have strong feelings for, I’ll also be swayed by the alliegances of whomever I’m watching with. Finally, I don’t really follow basketball at all, but I’ll root for any Villanova alumni I happen to notice, especially Kerry Kittles or Jason Lawson, and I’ll root against Tim Thomas and Allen Iverson. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2007, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personal-sports-team-rankings/423499/55 "2007-10-22T21:01:53Z")
[QUOTE=Troy McClure SF] Well then you probably shouldn’t for their most direct competitors and division rivals. :smack: [/QUOTE] Yes, but they are all good teams that I like to watch play. The entire NLWest, save one team, is wonderful. If the Dodgers can’t put it together, then I’ll root for the Padres in post-season play. It’s all good. Sure, I wish the Rockies hadn’t started their streak with a sweep of the Dodgers, but what can you do? Only one NLWest team makes me actively boo them whenever possible. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2007, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personal-sports-team-rankings/423499/56 "2007-10-22T22:08:55Z")
More of a US v. THEM rate system: US = Any SoCal Team THEM = Any Team Not in SoCal, usually the hatred is proportional to distance from SoCal, except multiply that distance by 10 for any NoCal Team so they go to the top of the list for most hated teams. ---
**Author:** ![Darryl\_Lict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2007, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personal-sports-team-rankings/423499/57 "2007-10-22T22:52:36Z")
Hoops is my favorite sport, but ever since Kobe went insane, I’ve nearly stopped watching the Lakers. Go UCLA, though! I’m going with an MLB list. 1. Dodgers. Grew up there, got free tickets for getting good grades in high school. I can’t stand Frank McCourt, that carpetbagger, so I have mixed feelings. 2. Oakland A’s. I used to go to games in Oakland Stadium back in the early 80’s when they used to draw around 1500-3000 people. Ricky Henderson used to steal about a gazillion bases, and I still have a soft spot in my heart for Ricky. 3. Chicago Cubs. My friend used to on the street that the Budweiser house was on and I’ve been to probably 6 games at Wrigley field. I guess since I love Wrigley so much, it rubs off on the Cubbies. 4. Angels. I’m a dirtbag bandwagon jumper onner. I became a fan when they got good. I love Arte Moreno. He was the guy who should’ve bought the Dodgers. He dropped the price of beer by $2. Need I say more? 5. NY Mets. New York’s other team. Plus Mike Piazza played for them for years. . . . 1. Yankees 2. Red Sox. This is a recent hatred, only begun since Frank McCourt bought (was given) the Dodgers. Fenway Park and Wrigley are the holy shrines of baseball and I used to like the Red Sox before I knew who Frank McCourt was and the Sox were still suffering from the curse of the Bambino. ---
**Author:** ![Kyyrewyyoae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Kyyrewyyoae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyyrewyyoae)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2007, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personal-sports-team-rankings/423499/58 "2007-10-23T00:06:32Z")
Baseball: 1. KC Royals - What’s not to like? Next year is our year. Or maybe the one after that. 2. The rest of the AL Central 3. Everyone else, except: Yankees & Red Sox - these teams have obscenely bloated payrolls and are constantly fellated by the national media. Cardinals - St Louis is Satan’s festering anus, from which all filth and decay spasm forth into the world. And we beat their asses in 1985. College: 1. Kansas Jayhawks - we own the Big 12. I’m indifferent to the rest of the conference, except: K-State - a minor rival, somewhat akin to an annoying little brother. Always talks big, but not really a threat. Nebraska - watching their football program fall to pieces brings me immeasurable joy. Missouri (slavers) - [Quantrill’s](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Quantrill) bastard children. the hatred is palpable. I’ll root for the Lakers in the NBA out of nostalgia for Magic Johnson, but interest continues to wane. The NFL is of no concern. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2007, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personal-sports-team-rankings/423499/59 "2007-10-23T00:42:56Z")
[QUOTE=Kyyrewyyoae] 1. KC Royals - What’s not to like? Next year is our year. Or maybe the one after that. [/QUOTE] I would love to see KC in the mix for the central, even as an Indians fan. ---
**Author:** ![brownsfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ad7895/32.png) [@brownsfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brownsfan)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2007, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personal-sports-team-rankings/423499/60 "2007-10-23T02:11:28Z")
Zipper JJ: _I don’t love them half as much as I love the Tribe. But you can’t be from Cleveland and not love to hate those Browns._ You are way off base, my friend. The old saying goes something like: **The Tribe and the Cavs have to earn our love, but our love for the Browns is unconditional.** So true. Are you sure you’re from around here? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personal-sports-team-rankings/423499.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personal-sports-team-rankings/423499.md?page=4)