Sports fans, what sports team do you hate the most (any sport)

[pete6032]

Question is in the thread title. Across all sports leagues and sports teams, what team do you absolutely hate the most?

This is an easy one for me. I hate the New Orleans Saints more than any other sports team on the planet. They cheated their way to a Super Bowl in 2009, which is unforgivable. Sean Payton behaves like a petulant child on the sidelines.

 

[Captante]

 

[Torn Mind]

I have a tough time deciding between the Washington Capitals, Dallas Cowboys, Boston Bruins, and Buffalo Sabres.

 

[Captante]

I have a tough time deciding between the Washington Capitals, Dallas Cowboys, Boston Bruins, and Buffalo Sabres.

Buffalo? What did they ever win?

The rest however make perfect sense to me!

 

[pete6032]

What's wrong with the Phillies? I don't follow NL baseball that closely.

 

[Torn Mind]

Buffalo? What did they ever win?

The rest however make perfect sense to me!

As a Football Team Redskins fan, it may seem strange, but I despise the Washington hockey team because I felt the need to commit treason and bail for Montreal after the 2009 disaster, believing they'd forever be a bunch of bungling losers.

The Sabres hatred comes from my Montreal fandom. I despised them so much during the Gerbe and Tyler Myers era. They also manage to win against the Habs even when they are one of the worst teams; they're especially cruel at winning when they're good. At least with Boston, there are moments of glory to rub salt in the wounds in the hated rivalry. Buffalo manages to win and annoy to no end against the Habs when they are decent. Like the hockey gods gave Buffalo kryptonite powers.

So, when the Eagles and Caps won in 2018, I was doubly unhappy. Empty trophy case football rival wins and the team I destroyed my fancard under the expectation they'll never win a Cup managed to win one.

 

[kt]

LA Kings and Nashville Predators

 

[WelshBloke]

Its a cliche but it has to be Saracens.

Them combined with the Quins flat hat and red trousers brigade is why everyone hates English rugby.

 

[sactoking]

I don't follow sports too much any more but when I did it was a toss-up between the Cowboys and the Fighting Irish.

I grew up in Northern California in a household that only had OTA broadcast television via rooftop antenna. That meant we got 4 NFL games per week: An AFC game, an NFC game, a "national" game, and Monday Night Football. Two of those games were local games, the 49'ers and the Raiders. This was back when the Raiders were blacked out locally every week, so in reality we only got 3 games half the time (we did get the Raiders away games). Of those 3 games one was always the 49'ers. Of the two remaining games one was always the Cowboys. They were the Monday night game a couple of times per year. They were the Sunday "national" game many times per year. And any week in which the 49'ers were the Monday night or "national" game meant we were getting the Cowboys as the NFC game. As a NoCal kid it was infuriating to get 16 49'ers games, 8 Raiders games and 14-15 Cowboys games per year. I didn't have a favorite team, wasn't really a 49'ers fan and definitely not a Raiders fan, but I got the logic of why we were getting those games. I just wanted to watch teams I didn't see often, not the Cowboys week in and week out, especially during the years in which they STUNK. There were some years where playoff teams might be exposed to me for the first time in the playoffs because the TV scheduling was so bad.

Similar for the Fighting Irish. EVERY Saturday they were on NBC. Hated it and how the exposure got them into the National Championship talk when they didn't deserve it. They'd play an "independent" schedule full of nobodies but get votes in the polls because of popularity/exposure.

 

[brianmanahan]

i hate the game, not the players

 

[WelshBloke]

i hate the game, not the players

Which brings me to my next "stupid question asked by non USA residents" question.

In the UK players get signed by teams and generally get to stay with those teams for a long time. You guys have a 'draft' (?) thing where you all get a chance at the players or something?
How does that work? Does the makeup of the team not change all the time or do they sign contracts for ages?

I mean the reason I hate teams is mostly because of the players! I can't "Yaaaa! Boooo!" if half of the team were people I was cheering for last year!

 

[UsandThem]

Question is in the thread title. Across all sports leagues and sports teams, what team do you absolutely hate the most?

'Nuff said.......

 

[brianmanahan]

Which brings me to my next "stupid question asked by non USA residents" question.

In the UK players get signed by teams and generally get to stay with those teams for a long time. You guys have a 'draft' (?) thing where you all get a chance at the players or something?
How does that work? Does the makeup of the team not change all the time or do they sign contracts for ages?

I mean the reason I hate teams is mostly because of the players! I can't "Yaaaa! Boooo!" if half of the team were people I was cheering for last year!

the draft is for new players graduating from or leaving college. in basketball some kids are so good that they enter the draft right out of high school (i remember lebron james doing this). in baseball, players are generally not skilled enough yet out of college, so they start in the minor leagues to see if they what it takes to play in the major league.

contracts for players signed in the drafts are limited to no more than a few years (3 or 4 i think). so if they turn out to be really good, in a few years they'll have a chance to get a new high-paying contract with any team that wants them and can afford them. there's no limit on that contract length, so some guys are signed for 10 years when they're in their prime years of their mid 20s.

 

[pete6032]

Which brings me to my next "stupid question asked by non USA residents" question.

In the UK players get signed by teams and generally get to stay with those teams for a long time. You guys have a 'draft' (?) thing where you all get a chance at the players or something?
How does that work? Does the makeup of the team not change all the time or do they sign contracts for ages?

I mean the reason I hate teams is mostly because of the players! I can't "Yaaaa! Boooo!" if half of the team were people I was cheering for last year!

In each of our professional sports each year there is a "draft" for new players coming into the league. The draft consists mostly of college athletes who are finishing college and ready to turn pro. The sports teams that had the worst season end up getting first pick of these college athletes. If a college athlete gets drafted by a team, the athlete must play for that team and that team only. Depending on the sports league the athlete will sign a 2-4 year contract with that team. Once their first contract is done, they can then sign a new contract with any team they want.

 

[IronWing]

This thread is much too negative.

Cowboys

 

[pete6032]

Apparently draft systems for sports are predominantly a North American thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft_(sports)

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

I hate all sports and would outlaw them all.


Well, except maybe girl's bikini volleyball.

 

[pmv]

In each of our professional sports each year there is a "draft" for new players coming into the league. The draft consists mostly of college athletes who are finishing college and ready to turn pro. The sports teams that had the worst season end up getting first pick of these college athletes. If a college athlete gets drafted by a team, the athlete must play for that team and that team only. Depending on the sports league the athlete will sign a 2-4 year contract with that team. Once their first contract is done, they can then sign a new contract with any team they want.

There I was thinking everyone got a card in the mail upon leaving college telling them that unless they can get a medical exemption they are obligated to play for a professional sports team for their town or state for the next couple of years. I thought it sounded like a strange system.

 

[Captante]

What's wrong with the Phillies? I don't follow NL baseball that closely.

I'll refer you to my avatar as an answer!


Also this:

I've been to many hundreds of Mets games including against hated rivals like the Braves and the Cardinals. While I rooted hard against them, the vast majority of their fans in attendance were polite and respectful.

While I'm sure there are plenty of nice folks in Philly, I can tell you that the Phillies games @ Shea & Citi Field I've attended were populated by some of the biggest scumbag-losers I've ever seen at a sporting event. (and I've been to a Raiders/Jets game in Oakland!)

The Phillies have the dubious honor of being the ONLY team I ever chose to root for the Yankee's to beat in the WS INCLUDING the Chipper Jones led Braves.

 

[manly]

Right now, it's easily the Houston Astros.

I hate all sports and would outlaw them all.


Well, except maybe girl's bikini volleyball.

Hopefully you mean women's beach volleyball.

 

[BoomerD]

Hmmm...Oakland/L.A./Las Vegas Raiders, Denver Donkeys, Baltimore Ravens, S.F. 49ers....the list goes on and on and on...

 

[Captante]

So, when the Eagles and Caps won in 2018, I was doubly unhappy. Empty trophy case football rival wins and the team I destroyed my fancard under the expectation they'll never win a Cup managed to win one.

2018 Iggles wern't all bad .... they did manage to bitch-slap Golden-Boy in his under-inflated balls!

Hmmm...Oakland/L.A./Las Vegas Raiders, Denver Donkeys, Baltimore Ravens, S.F. 49ers....the list goes on and on and on...

Be honest ... you just hate everyone!

 

[BoomerD]

2018 Iggles wern't all bad .... they did manage to bitch-slap Golden-Boy in his under-inflated balls!







Be honest ... you just hate everyone except the Steelers, Seahawks, and Packers!

Fixed that for ya...

 

[Spacehead]

I guess i'm getting old but i don't really hate teams as much as i used to. But if i had to list them it'd be the Steelers & Notre Dame & the major collage teams from Florida. This is for football anyway.

I used to really hate the Cowboys because they were being forced on us to be "Americas Team". Fuck that!

 

[MrSquished]

Cowgirls shortly followed by the Iggles. Besides that never really had negative vibes for any other NFL team until Bountygate and watching the Saints try to hurt Brett Favre in that championship game. Lost respect for that organization. Was rooting for them post Katrina too.