SI: Top 25 most hated teams of all-time

The only NFL team that really stands out from the last decade is the 2007 Pats.

The Steelers in 2006? No way... That was a No. 6 seed that won it all.

 

The 2000 Ravens weren't especially likable, but I don't think they engendered half the hatred of the Pats or the early 90s Cowboys.

 

Outside of Lewis and Suggs, the Ravens are not that hatable. And if you did not know about the stabbing, Lewis actually is a pretty likable player.

 

Indeed. I still remember the buildup to that 93 or 94 Chiefs/Oilers game (which, unfortunately, remains the last postseason win in KC franchise history).

First it was the Oilers saying that Montana wouldn't finish the game. Derrick Thomas and the Chiefs responded by saying that if Montana didn't finish, Moon wouldn't either.

But the seminal moment from that game came on a touchdown pass from Montana to Keith Cash. Cash caught the ball in the right flat, and strolled into the end zone, where is momentum brought him in front of a banner with Buddy Ryan's picture on it. We had a bunch of people at our house to watch that game, and I can still hear the roar that went up when Cash spiked the ball in Ryan's face.

As for most hated, how in the world can the Broad Street Bullies not top that list? Just saw the recent doc on them done by HBO Sports. Holy hell.

 

I remember that TD. Glanville was in Atlanta by then, but Ryan filled a gap as DC and there were still plenty of assholes on the roster.

Somebody on one of those Top 10 shows said one year they wanted the four coaches from the old AFC Central to do a group photo. This is when it was Glanville, Noll, Wyche and Schottenheimer, and most of them hated each other's guts. They refused to do the pic.

 

First time I saw that I thought, "What the fuck are the Glanville Oilers? Some minor league hockey team that played with the Charlestown Chiefs?"

 

I absolutely LOVED that era of AFC Central football...the mid to late 1980's. All the teams were good (Pittsburgh was down a little, but still a threat) and it seemed every division game broke out into a brawl. Still remember Sam Wyche grabbing the mic and telling the fans at Riverfront to stop throwing things because "You don't live in Cleveland!"

The quarterbacks were awesome...Bernie Kosar, Warren Moon, Norman Esiason and, well, Bubby Brister. I will fondly remember the game where the Browns sacked Bubby about a million times (with his mother in attendance at the game), and every time he was hit the television would show his mom in the stands cringing. Awesome division. Very underrated.

 

For all of Wyche's bluster that season (It was 1989 I believe) with the "You don't live in Cleveland! You live in Cincinnati!" bit, his team didn't make the playoffs that season. Pittsburgh squeaked in, upset the Oilers and then lost to Denver, who then beat Cleveland.

 

The sun shines on every dogs ass at least once.

 

Steelers fans pelting Glanville with snowballs at halftime, Noll dressing down Glanville at the end of a game for dirty play, Wyche running up the score to the count of 61-7, the Wyche antics aforementioned (in a game that Largent caught his 100th touchdown), Steelers complaining regularly about bad fields in Cleveland . . . God don't make divisions like that anymore.

 

Funny also how the linked article completely scrubs the hands of the mewling pissing whiner hissy-fit-throwing drama-queen-diva head coach.

Which of course was the meme he pushed for every day of the Games.

 

... that many people hated as much as loved.

They were polarizing even if NFL Films-like propaganda would lead one to believe otherwise in hindsight.