Most Hated Team(s)

Notre Dame

NFL - Philly, NYG, Skins, Steelers, Seahawks, 49ers

MLB - Braves, NYY, Cubs, Nationals. 

NHL - Capitals, Flyers, Bruins, Blackhawks

NBA - GSW, Whatever team LBJ is on, Rockets (Harden) 

College - Florida, Miami, Notre Dame, UNC 

Guess I should add Cowboys and Lakers to my list, simply for being those media darling teams that get tons of love regardless of how mediocre they've been over the past forever. To use Dallas as an example, if any of our NFL teams had the exact same seasons on a win-loss level as they've had, it's a guarantee that we wouldn't be catching our team either in prime time or the 4 p.m. national slot virtually every single week. But (a) they do and (b) it's likely one of their former players will be in the booth announcing the game because when a team gets pimped to the country every fucking year, any remotely good player becomes the sort of household name that networks want serving as their color guy, assuming they have any aptitude for that sort of on-the-fly speaking.

Meanwhile, in reality, both teams are a former great in their field that's now not much more than a relic propped up by networks to disguise the fact they're just another team that doesn't stand out from the pack in any way other than coverage (or ownership/management blundering, as both of them have been more prolific than most in that front in recent years, with a senile drunk running everything with the Cowboys and the Lakers just being a hilarious shitshow that's amazingly fun to pay attention to now because you don't know what wacky fuck-up is coming up next).

posted by slingshot4ever

Browns fans being ridiculous?  Is that because we are loyal to a fault?

No it's because they turn games into brawls. I mean I'm not sure why I can watch my Lions go 5-11 and not have the urge to whoop a Bears fan but I don't know it's what Cleveland does I guess

Classy saw some anecdotal story/video of Browns fans "brawling," and now he is too much of a puss to go to Browns games LOL.  It's a shame not everyone can be as classy as lions fans.

https://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/2pai3h/butthole_being_eaten_at_lions_tailgate/

posted by Classyposter58

No it's because they turn games into brawls. I mean I'm not sure why I can watch my Lions go 5-11 and not have the urge to whoop a Bears fan but I don't know it's what Cleveland does I guess

oh, the irony

posted by Classyposter58

No it's because they turn games into brawls. I mean I'm not sure why I can watch my Lions go 5-11 and not have the urge to whoop a Bears fan but I don't know it's what Cleveland does I guess

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacers%E2%80%93Pistons_brawl

Auburn Hills remembers.

posted by Heretic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacers%E2%80%93Pistons_brawl

Auburn Hills remembers.

LOL, how could I forget this?

posted by like_that

LOL, how could I forget this?

No clue...you don’t forget anything

posted by Ironman92

No clue...you don’t forget anything

 

I'm losing my fastball.  

posted by like_that

I'm losing my fastball.  

Yeah, both that and missing out on how Classy's, uh, "argument?" in that post comes down to "I personally don't do that stuff, but people in your fanbase do, so I'm claiming moral superiority over the entire fanbase!!!" which is right up there with the worst arguments in site history.

I mean, I personally don't feel the urge to start fights with fans of other teams or use derogatory (ie: racial, sexual, etc.) terms to describe other fans or athletes on their teams, but there are fans in every fanbase that do so, including my own, so it'd be pure weaksauce to criticize another team's fans based solely on what I would or wouldn't do.