primitives discuss most-hated sports franchise

[franksolich]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=215x83434

Strictly speaking, this belongs in the sports forum here, but I'm waiting to see if that other primitive bonfire posted down there attracts traffic.

TZ  (1000+ posts)       Wed Jan-28-09 09:38 PM
Original message
 
Poll question: Most hated sports franchise

Every sport seems to have one team that everyone outside of the home city hates.

Which one do you dislike the most and why?

Mine is the Dallas Cowboys as many of you know. Because one they are rivals to my Skins, two, I hate the "America's Team" bullshit and don't even get me started on the hole in the Texas Stadium so "God could watch his favorite team".. 

Poll result (24 votes) 

Dallas Cowboys  (10 votes, 42%) 
NY Yankees  (12 votes, 50%)
LA Lakers  (1 votes, 4%) 
Detroit Redwings  (0 votes, 0%) 
Duke Basketball  (0 votes, 0%)
Notre Dame football  (0 votes, 0%) 
Other  (1 votes, 4%)

Oh, I dunno.

I dislike any sports franchise that grows, and is nourished and sustained, in one place for years and years and years, and then moves somewhere else because it's cooler, trender, hipper. 

Forkboy  (1000+ posts)      Wed Jan-28-09 09:40 PM
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1. For me it's the Montreal Canadiens.

The Stanley Cup has been around for almost a hundred years now, and the Habs have won 26% of them. My whole childhood was spent watching the Bruins lose to Montreal.

Condem  (1000+ posts)        Wed Jan-28-09 10:01 PM
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2. Notre Dame, TZ

**** the pompous asses.

Auggie  (1000+ posts)      Wed Jan-28-09 10:01 PM
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3. Boston Red Sox

Though the Denver Broncos are tied in a very close second with the Yankees followed by the Dallas Cowboys.

Cleveland fans will understand my selection of the Red Sox, Broncos and Yankees.

I dislike the Cowboys more than ever because they remind me of George Bush. It's weird, but they do.

hughee99 (1000+ posts)      Wed Jan-28-09 10:44 PM
Response to Reply #3
 
6. I suspect the Angels fans might be starting to feel the same way about the Red Sox.

AsahinaKimi  (368 posts)      Thu Jan-29-09 04:45 AM
Response to Reply #6
 
11. I don't think so... 

Angels got Mo Vaughn from the Red Sox several years ago. He did great till
he hurt himself again. I used to love it when the Angels beat the Yankees in Yankee Stadium with a Timmy Salmon home run. I think the Angels biggest rivarly has always been the Texas Rangers and the Oakland A's. Both have knocked the Angels out of the playoffs for more years than they care to remember.

hughee99 (1000+ posts)      Thu Jan-29-09 10:31 AM
Response to Reply #11
 
24. Since 1961, the Angels have been to the playoffs 8 times...and lost to the Red Sox in 4 of them, 3 times since 2004. I figured this would have stirred up more animosity among fans toward the Sox.

I like the Angels, they seem to have had the Yankees number for a while now.

cboy4  (1000+ posts)        Wed Jan-28-09 10:34 PM
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4. This will come as no surprise:

Forkboy

trumad  (1000+ posts)        Thu Jan-29-09 06:19 AM
Response to Reply #4
 
15. Wow---post after post lately it's all about Forkboy---

He's obviously gotten under your skin in which I say----

Good Job Forkboy.

For the record, the true mud primitive has the backbone of a spineless amoeba.

TZ  (1000+ posts)       Thu Jan-29-09 07:20 AM
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16. Forkboy for sports forum MVP!

I don't recognize this teezee primitive, other than that he's no good.

madinmaryland  (1000+ posts)        Thu Jan-29-09 10:45 AM
Response to Reply #16
 
25. Wow! Forkboy has surpassed me as cboy's most hated poster in the Sports Forum!!

Good job, Forkboy!!

I don't recognize this terrapin primitive, other than that he's no good.

trumad  (1000+ posts)        Thu Jan-29-09 12:05 PM
Response to Reply #25
 
27. Get in Line Pal...

Yeah, yeah.

Dr. Strange  (1000+ posts)        Wed Jan-28-09 10:44 PM
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5. Oakland Raiders

Edit to add the reason: because they're the ****ing Raiders.

TZ  (1000+ posts)       Wed Jan-28-09 10:48 PM
Response to Reply #5
 
8. yeah

I can get with you on that. I've never particularly liked them. Say what you will about Philly fans...those folk in the Black Hole scare the **** outta me...

AsahinaKimi  (368 posts)      Thu Jan-29-09 04:47 AM
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12. Even The Raider fans hated the Raiders... 

When they left Oakland moved down to the Los Angeles area. All the Oakland fans felt betrayed by Al Davis.

The good people of Oakland were betrayed.

They built and nourished and sustained the Raiders, and then Lost Angeles stole them.

Dr. Strange  (1000+ posts)        Thu Jan-29-09 10:03 AM
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23. I don't blame them.

Al Davis' heart is as black as a coal miner's ass. Evil incarnate--even Satan doesn't want anything to do with him.

No argument from franksolich here.

Upton  (1000+ posts)      Wed Jan-28-09 10:45 PM
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7. Obviously I hate the Cowgirls

anyone who cares about keeping the NFL relatively crime free, should join me in my dislike of the felons from Dallas.

I also hate the Dodgers, Lakers, Yankees and Manchester United.

Hmmm.  One wonders what the uptown primitive has against the New York Yankees.

AsahinaKimi  (368 posts)      Thu Jan-29-09 04:50 AM
Response to Reply #7

13. The greatest moment in 49er history was THE CATCH...

Montana to Clark which set the 49ERS on to their many Superbowl runs. And who was the catch against? Yeah, the Cowboys. Meh!!

Joe Montana was good.

madinmaryland  (1000+ posts)        Thu Jan-29-09 09:02 AM
Response to Reply #7

21. Like the felon who owned the 49'ers??

hughee99 (1000+ posts)      Wed Jan-28-09 11:07 PM
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9. Yankees without a doubt.

If they Cowboys are God's favorite team, Satan must have been laughing his ass of this season.

Oh man.  The Howard Hughes primitive is just being stupid, and knows it.  Disliking the New York Yankees is like disliking Mother Theresa, Santa Claus, Jane Addams, Eleanor Roosevelt, &c., &c., &c.; some people are so twisted they can't like nice guys.

SurferBoy (1000+ posts)      Thu Jan-29-09 12:53 AM
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10. It was close between the Cowboys and Yankees, but since I'm more a football fan than baseball, I chose Cowboys.

In addition, unlike the Cowboys, the Yankees have actually won in the postseason in the last decade.

The Cowboys get waayyyyy too much press and TV coverage for being mostly mediocre ever since Aikman retired.

Hmmm.  Like 0bama, one suspects.

AsahinaKimi  (368 posts)      Thu Jan-29-09 04:57 AM
Response to Reply #10
 
14. Not to mention being called AMERICA'S TEAM. ?? wth WAS THAT?? Like the other NFL teams weren't American enough? Meh..

I dunno.

Unlike baseball, where the New York Yankees are undeniably America's team, I suppose in football, it's sort of up in the air.  I myself always considered the Pittsburgh Steelers to be America's team (in football), but that's just me; it's arguable.

ChazII (1000+ posts)      Thu Jan-29-09 07:26 AM
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17. Yankees, no doubt about it.

Geezuz.  Another malcontent, who doesn't like nice guys.

a la izquierda  (1000+ posts)      Thu Jan-29-09 07:46 AM
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18. Red Sox and Lakers..

There, I said it.

MaineDem  (1000+ posts)      Thu Jan-29-09 07:49 AM
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19. Far and away...the Yankees!

Hmmm.  One suspects the dumb Mainer's an inhabitant of a mental institution there.

madinmaryland  (1000+ posts)        Thu Jan-29-09 09:01 AM
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20. Well let's see...

In no particular order:

New York Skankees
Washington Redskins
New York Giants
Philadelphia Eaglets.
LA Lakers

On edit: I noted you snide comment about the hole in the roof. I'm sure it must have grated on you over the years how Joe Gibbs flaunted his religiosity!

No comment, because the terrapin primitive's just really retarded.

TZ  (1000+ posts)       Thu Jan-29-09 09:22 AM
Response to Reply #20
 
22. One difference..

He never claimed that the Skins were "Gods favorite team".

And actually he was fairly good about not CONSTANTLY rubbing the religious schtick in actually.

Oh man.  The anti-cboy4 primitive, the professorial primitive spittles his dribble, looking very much like the decrepit old Jr. from Vermont, Bernie Sanders:

ProfessorGAC  (1000+ posts)      Thu Jan-29-09 11:54 AM
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26. I Picked Cowboys

The whole idea of declaring one's self "America's Team" always stuck in my throat.

[Vagabond]

What? No mention of Manchester U or the Pakistani cricket team?

I'm ashamed of these DUmmies, citizens of the world that they are.

Mine is the Ensley Chiefs (Optimist League Football).  They were the Cantonment Cowboys huge, practically blood rivals.  The schools literally had to keep us seperated the weeks we played each other. (Other than that, they were good guys, though.)

[Rebel]

LSU BENGAL TIGERS--------SPIT

[Traveshamockery]

Notre Dame football  (0 votes, 0%) 

Notre Dame?  Leave Notre Dame alone, dummies!!!

 

[Vagabond]

LSU BENGAL TIGERS--------SPIT

I'd say that Florida Gators, but as a Noles fan, I have always hated on Miami more than Florida.

[TheSarge]

26. I Picked Cowboys

The whole idea of declaring one's self "America's Team" always stuck in my throat.

Jealous loser POS.   

[thundley4]

Franksolich said: Oh, I dunno.

I dislike any sports franchise that grows, and is nourished and sustained, in one place for years and years and years, and then moves somewhere else because it's cooler, trender, hipper. 


Then you don't like the Dodgers?   

[Chris_]

Disliking the New York Yankees is like disliking Mother Theresa, Santa Claus, Jane Addams, Eleanor Roosevelt, &c., &c., &c.; some people are so twisted they can't like nice guys.

I dunno, Frank.  Outside of NY, the yanks are probably the most deeply hated team in all of American Sports (well, the real ones: NFL, NBA, MLB).

Unless you were being sarcastic (not a usual quality for you).

[franksolich]

Then you don't like the Dodgers?   

No way.

The Dodgers were nourished, cultivated, and made wealthy by the good people of Brooklyn for only God knows how many years, decades, generations.

The people of Brooklyn built the Dodgers.

And then in 1957 or whenever it was, the Dodgers decided they were bored with Brooklyn, that Brooklyn was stale, that Brooklyn was old hat, boring. 

And that California was hip, California was hot, California was trendy, California was where it was at, all the cool people went to California.

No way do I care for the Lost Angeles Dodgers; I wish they'd lose every single game they play.

[franksolich]

Unless you were being sarcastic (not a usual quality for you).

No way.

As you say, sir, there's a deep streak of animosity towards the New York Yankees, and it reminds me of an alas now-gone sentiment popular when Nebraska and Oklahoma ruled college football.

There were actually people who disliked Nebraska and Oklahoma.

Why?

Because some people don't like winners, nothing more than that.

[BlueStateSaint]

No way.

As you say, sir, there's a deep streak of animosity towards the New York Yankees, and it reminds me of an alas now-gone sentiment popular when Nebraska and Oklahoma ruled college football.

There were actually people who disliked Nebraska and Oklahoma.

Why?

Because some people don't like winners, nothing more than that.

I'm sure that if Coach Pelini has his way, there'll be more hatin' directed towards the 'Huskers soon.

[Crazy Horse]

****ing OLE MISS.................Spit.....Stomp....Spit



Oh yeah and DOOK

[Duke Nukum]

Being as brevity is the sole of wit, shouldn't the prims try to show some wit and present of list of things they actually love?  And if that list would be so brief as to not exist, why not create a list of things they like most?  I mean, I assume a prim needs to like something or why still be alive?