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NFL's easiest to hate teams

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Hate begins with the Cowboys and all that "America's Team" bullshit.

Hate moves quickly to Oakland, long the dirtiest team in pro ball.

Finally you take out the New York, Miami, LA teams so that the cameras don't have to focus on some Celeb fan.

Then comes indecision. I grew up in Dayton with the Ottog Graham, Lou Groza, Dante LaVelli, Mac Speedy Browns. I went to OSU and followed the Jim Brown, Milt Plum, Gary Collins, Paul Warfield Browns. then along comes the Cincinnati Bengals and suddenly my Browns are off the air and I have to put up with years of Mikey Boy leadership... Daddy gave me a football team... Finally Tagliibu came to town and put a gun to Mike ABrowns head and convinced him he was no GM and we have what could be an interesting season ahead of us while the Browns draft the likes of Braylon Edwards and "Look Ma, No Hands" Winslow. Looks like it might be time to talk divorce.
 
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Easy, the Browns.

I probably wouldn't hate them as bad if it weren't for their fans.
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I agree about their fans, thats the nice thing about them sucking since the have come back. Their fans still keep quiet..... but as soon as they win more than a couple games they will be back.
 
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cincibuck said:
Daddy gave me a football team... Finally Tagliibu came to town and put a gun to Mike ABrowns head and convinced him he was no GM and we have what could be an interesting season ahead of us while the Browns draft the likes of Braylon Edwards and "Look Ma, No Hands" Winslow. Looks like it might be time to talk divorce.
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Would you give up on Ohio State so easily if they had a a "down" stretch? The NFL is cyclical (Alas...Hope for Bengal fans). If you are a casual NFL fan that likes to root for good teams, that's fine...but for real fans, their teams are a part of them. As bad as Cleveland has been recently, their history and my old memories of them will always make me want them to do well.

You root for a team because you WANT them to do well...not because they are necessarily already successful. I guess I've never understood the whole "fan divorcing themselves from their team" process.

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I agree about their fans, thats the nice thing about them sucking since the have come back. Their fans still keep quiet..... but as soon as they win more than a couple games they will be back.
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Actually, the thing I love about Browns fans is that they are:

1. Realistic. Browns fans are generally very aware of what their team can realistically acheive. It doesn't stop them from expecting too much and being angry when they loose, but you will RARELY meet a Browns fan that lets their love for the team overpower their common sense when we are just plain bad.

2. Passionate and Loyal. I don't consider bottle throwing and booing, passion. But teams like Cleveland, Green Bay, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Etc. have fans that will unconditionally love their team no matter how bad they are. Browns fans don't crawl into the cracks in the lean years. We may be obnoxious...but we are that way unconditionally.

Not going to deny we've had some bad teams...However, just remember that we've still been to the playoffs twice since the last time the bengals were there, and we didn't even have a team for some of that stretch. I don't know when it became acceptable for Bengals fans to dog ANY other franchise.
 
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I despise the Browns as a team-I laugh when they suck. Their fans are good fans tho, I must admit-knowledgeable and loyal when they aren't throwing bones an wearing stupid dog masks. As a Bengals fan, the Browns, 49ers and Cowboys are the teams I dislike the most. Too much pain has been inflicted on the Bengals by the Niners not to hate them. I also like the Raiders, so I pretty much despise the Broncos in a large way, and the East Bay/West Bay thing carries over to the Niners in that way as well.
 
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stxbuck said:
I despise the Browns as a team-I laugh when they suck. Their fans are good fans tho, I must admit-knowledgeable and loyal when they aren't throwing bones an wearing stupid dog masks. As a Bengals fan, the Browns, 49ers and Cowboys are the teams I dislike the most. Too much pain has been inflicted on the Bengals by the Niners not to hate them. I also like the Raiders, so I pretty much despise the Broncos in a large way, and the East Bay/West Bay thing carries over to the Niners in that way as well.
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I agree about the fans...there are certain teams that I hate, but that I totally respect fans of. Pittsburgh is the best example. GREAT fans...but I hate the team.

Because of the earlier suggestion that Browns fans disappeared in the bad times...I wanted to compare patterns of "fair-weathered" behavior between Cleveland and Cincy, so I did some research and put together the attached spreadsheet demonstrating the correlation between average capacity filled at the stadium with the winning percentage.

Obviously there are various independant variables which will cause the correlation to naturally gravitate towards 0. But I found it interesting (since 1985) that Cincy had a correlation coefficient .725 HIGHER than the Browns (NOTE: -1 is minimum, 1 is maximum). In fact, Cleveland has a slight negative correlation between winning pct and average capacity filled. I suck at math, so take it with a grain of salt, but it seemed like this was a decent method of comparison for each team's fanbase.

You may also want to note that, since 1985 the Browns have won more games and drawn more fans than the Bengals. That would be less funny if not for the fact that we didn't have a team between 1996 and 1999.

Sorry for the hijack. :lol:
 

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As a Steeler fan I just transferd my old hatred of the Browns to Baltimore when they left and God have they made it easy to maintain.

As far as the new Browns go they are gonna have to win something to get my blood up again.

For some reason I have also always had an irrational hatred of the Dolphins. No where near how I feel about the Ratbirds but fairly close as far as NFL passions go.

All in all though, you could take every last drop of venom I have for every NFL team and it would probably not even measure my Northwestern hatred in college football. Its just a whole different universe.
 
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Ravens
Cowboys
Raiders
Patriots-mostly because if I hear one more time that Brady is the best QB ever and hes going to win 100 Super Bowls and be retroactivly voted into the Hall of Fame his junior year at scUM, I'm going to go screaming off into the woods and live among the animals
 
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Thump said:
Easy, the Browns.

I probably wouldn't hate them as bad if it weren't for their fans.
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And that is all that needs to be said. My hate for the Browns originates soley from their obnoxious and delusional fans. I have hated the Browns since I was about eight, simply because eveyone I knew, who was a Browns fan was an asshole when it came to their team--and I knew a lot growing up in NW Ohio. They could be completely normal, rational people the rest of the year, but when football season came around, their grasp of reality and civility took a four month vacation.

1. Realistic. Browns fans are generally very aware of what their team can realistically acheive. It doesn't stop them from expecting too much and being angry when they loose, but you will RARELY meet a Browns fan that lets their love for the team overpower their common sense when we are just plain bad.
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You have to be kidding me...a lot of Browns fans were talking playoffs at the beginning of last season. I kid you not! I moved to NE Ohio one year ago this past weekend and I remember laughing my ass off because of the number of Browns fans calling into the radio shows who thought they had a reasonable chance to make the playoffs.

As for my top five hated teams:

1. Browns
2. Cowyboys
3. Broncos
4. 49ers
5. Rams (this will probably change once Martz is no longer the coach)
 
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