Least likeable (ok, most hateable) team in any sport?

[BonzoFury]

I think LSU women's basketball has a pretty clear hold on #1 currently. It starts at the top and the players reflect their leader. That said... who were some of the least likeable teams in any sport over the last 50 years? Let's hear your faves. And please...more than just "I hate the Cowboys" or something similar. Specific players/coaches and personalities that just rub you the wrong way for a reason and made their team hateable.

 

[nck24]

I think LSU women's basketball has a pretty clear hold on #1 currently. It starts at the top and the players reflect their leader. That said... who were some of the least likeable teams in any sport over the last 50 years? Let's hear your faves. And please...more than just "I hate the Cowboys" or something similar. Specific players/coaches and personalities that just rub you the wrong way for a reason and made their team hateable.

Aaron Craft

 

[fivecardstud14]

McCants, May and the 2005 Tar Heels.

 

[Lindemann]

Duke basketball. Doesn't matter what year.

 

[JEDN]

Iowa State, all sports(both men and women), every year.

 

[BonzoFury]

Iowa State, all sports(both men and women), every year.

 

[BubsFinn]

Yankees, probably. Mostly because they use the rest of the league as a farm team. They don’t develop much of their own talent, they just buy it. Notre Dame Football if you want to stick to college sports, because they are alway criminally overrated.
I can’t say I hate LSU nearly as much as I hate Kim Mulkey. If she were coaching someplace else, I wouldn’t really care about LSU one way or another, but I’d still hate her.

 

[BonzoFury]

The Detroit Pistons "bad boys" era. Laimbeer was a pathetic hack...one of the dirtiest players ever.

 

[BonzoFury]

Yankees, probably. Notre Dame Football if you want to stick to college sports.
I can’t say I hate LSU nearly as much as I hate Kim Mulkey. If she were coaching someplace else, I wouldn’t really care about LSU one way or another, but I’d still hate her.

Agreed, but "Angel" (talk about an ironic name) is pretty unlikeable as well.

 

[BubsFinn]

Agreed, but "Angel" (talk about an ironic name) is pretty unlikeable as well.

It’s hard for me to hate someone with obvious mental deficiencies. A lot of her problems would be fixed with the right coaching, but she’s not going to get that from Mulkey.

 

[FrankBurns00]

LSU womens basketball

Can't wait for the Washington Post article on Mulkey coming out soon.

 

[TampaHawkfan]

I'll go with late 80s/early 90s Illinois basketball and Lou Henson. The whole Deon Thomas thing.

Then Andy Kaufman and that buzzer beater in '93, after they pulled Iowa back out of the locker room to play that last 2 seconds of the game, after everyone thought it was over.

Eff Illinois.

 

[KFsdisciple]

The Gators in the 90's under Spurier and Tha U come to mind...

I HATED Lawrence Funderburk growing up

 

[BonzoFury]

It’s hard for me to hate someone with obvious mental deficiencies. A lot of her problems would be fixed with the right coaching, but she’s not going to get that from Mulkey.

I'm gonna go out on a limb and wonder if parenting may play a role as well.

 

[EvilMonkeyInTheCloset]

I think LSU women's basketball has a pretty clear hold on #1 currently. It starts at the top and the players reflect their leader. That said... who were some of the least likeable teams in any sport over the last 50 years? Let's hear your faves. And please...more than just "I hate the Cowboys" or something similar. Specific players/coaches and personalities that just rub you the wrong way for a reason and made their team hateable.

Didn't even need to open the thread to know this answer.

Well done.

 

[shrinkhawk]

Bo Shembechler. Absolutely hated that guy growing up.

 

[Terrykohawk]

Notre Dame, Yankees, Cowboys, Lakers, and Penguins. Not necessarily in that order!
Individual would be Jerry Jones. Undeserved arrogance personified.

 

[Scott559]

Aaron Craft

I will raise you one Brad Davison.

 

[nck24]

I will raise you one Brad Davison.

Brian Cardinal?

 

[joelbc1]

Those old Oakland Raider teams of the 60’s thru 80’s. Ben Davidson slamming Lenny Sawsin like a rag doll…Jack Tatum, Fred “the Hammer” Williamson…. A cast of dozens! And of course, their beloved owner/ coach Al (just win, baby) Davis… The Raiders were America’s team to hate!

 

[WSC72]

Those old Oakland Raider teams of the 60’s thru 80’s. Ben Davidson slamming Lenny Sawsin like a rag doll…Jack Tatum, Fred “the Hammer” Williamson…. A cast of dozens! And of course, their beloved owner/ coach Al (just win, baby) Davis… The Raiders were America’s team to hate!

I kinda liked them. I cheered for Lyle Alzado. I grew up not that far from Yankton College. How he ever chose to go there I’ll never know


During those years I hated the Bills. They always seemed to beat the team I was rooting for.

 

[Tom Paris]

Duke basketball. Doesn't matter what year.

💯

 

[abby97]

Wisconsin

 

[the24fan]

Nebraska, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Moo U
As a Stiller fan, Ravens as well .

 

[Heathen Raider]

St Louis Cardinals

 

[BonzoFury]

Come on fellas, Don’t just throw the name of your least favorite team. That’s amateur hour. How about some specifics and personalities and reasons.

 

[LukaDuka]

Nebraska State College of Criminals... & Scott "better get us now" Frost.

 

[mro1978]

Iowa State
Any Nick Saban coached team
Any Roy Williams coached team

 

[LukaDuka]

and Kayden Proctologist

 

[Beattheohiostate]

The entire SEC. LSU in particular, led by that clown Mulkey and abetted by that epitome of a student athlete and gracious scholar, AR.

Alabama football and KP.

Another vote for Bo Schembechler, a guy who NEVER gave an opposing team or player one gram of credit for defeating his boys.

Bobby Knight, the male Mulkey without the wardrobe.

Officials Jim Bain and Art White, two of the poster boys for incompetence, and their legacy is alive and well today.

Notre Dame and the cheating "Fainting Irish." (Look it up.)

Iowa State. Everything, but especially because it's a team that can't settle on a uniform and that has a bird as a mascot to represent its Cyclone nickname.

Oregon, because it started the ludicrous multiple uniform craziness and wearing any color, school colors be damned.

 

[EagleHawk]

Duke of the Laettner/Hurley period and Grayson Allen period. (And most of the years in between)
Any team coached by Mulkey.
Yankees of the 90s.

 

[Hendy hawk]

A lot of hatred in this thread.

 

[MikeT2425]

The Bay Area Bombers were national favorites, but my most hated team. Charlie O'Connell and Joannie Weston were great competitors, but just plain mean. Jeannie makes Angel seem angelic. They would almost always rally in the final period, beating my Midwest Pioneers.

 

[hawkirugged17]

 

[myteamcanbeatupyourteam]

A lot of hatred in this thread.

 

[SI_NYC]

Wisconsin

I can agree with you on Wisconsin. I dispise everything about their program. From their HC to their dirty players, I cheer for them to lose above all others.

 

[joelbc1]

I can agree with you on Wisconsin. I dispise everything about their program. From their HC to their dirty players, I cheer for them to lose above all others.

Wisconsin is UIowa/North. At least when Alvarez/Beilema and Chryst were there…same basic philosophy, types of players and strategies used.

 

[Hendy hawk]

Wisconsin is UIowa/North. At least when Alvarez/Beilema and Chryst were there…same basic philosophy, types of players and strategies used.

I can agree with you on FB but not BB.

 

[joelbc1]

I can agree with you on FB but not BB.

If you liked Ralph Miller/Lute Olson basketball, you had to have admired Bo Ryan ball……it all stemmed from defense and rebounding…..with all 3……

 

[ButtersHawk]

I hate Nebraska with every fiber of my being. I don't own anything red because of it. Also my ex once bought me a pair of cheap New Balances for yard work, since the logo on the side was a "N" I made her return them.