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02-04-2013, 03:31 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: Australia | | | Recommend an NFL team to follow.
I’ve started to enjoy the NFL a bit. Now that I understand that it isn’t a game of rugby, but more like a game of chess with one move taking place at a time, I’m starting to enjoy it more. Seeing a few documentaries style TV shows (NFL-America’s Game) about different seasons in the NFL and getting a bit of history of the game helped as well.
Anyway, I think I need a team to follow next season. The team I follow in the Australian Rugby League (The Manly Sea-Eagles) are easily the most hated team in the competition. Everyone cheers for 2 teams, their own team and whoever is playing Manly that week. Manly fans only have 1 team. You don’t need a back-up when you know you’re the best. We have a reputation as being a wealthy team who pay of refs and steal the best players from the poor teams etc.
Which team in the NFL matches that description? I think I’ll take them on as the team I follow. It won’t be the same as having a proper emotional ownership of the team that you get from growing up in an area, but at least it will give me someone to cheer for. |
02-04-2013, 03:37 PM
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Everyone but Texans (and not all of them) hate them for a lot of the reasons you stated.
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02-04-2013, 03:41 PM
|  | Just one more question | | Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: San Franciscco, CA | | The 49'rs of course.  But not for the reasons you listed. They get better every year. They have a yound quarteback who is only going to get better, and they have a young coach who is learning more every year.
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02-04-2013, 03:42 PM
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Originally Posted by slobake  The 49'rs of course. But not for the reasons you listed. They get better every year. They have a yound quarteback who is only going to get better, and they have a young coach who is learning more every year. | I think he learned a few things yesterday 
People don't hate the 49ers
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02-04-2013, 03:48 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Tustin, CA | | Cowboys best fit your description, OP. But they have been very mediocre for the last decade or so.
Raiders are historically the most hated team, but that was for cheating in-game and having a bit of a mean streak. But they have been a horribly, horribly bad team for the last decade or so 
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02-04-2013, 03:49 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Tustin, CA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by slobake The 49'rs of course. But not for the reasons you listed. They get better every year. They have a yound quarteback who is only going to get better, and they have a young coach who is learning more every year. | Pay no mind to slobake. No one really hates the 9ers. He's just a rabid homer 
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02-04-2013, 03:58 PM
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02-04-2013, 04:05 PM
|  | Am I on time? | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: WA State | | | ^ Those are really compelling reasons.
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02-04-2013, 04:05 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Tustin, CA | | | I thought I heard that Trent Richardson of the Cleveland Browns is an American-born Aborigine. That might give you a little slice of home
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02-04-2013, 04:06 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Upstate, South Carolina | | | Most hated by far = Dallas Cowboys...but they are pathetic. They spend the most money, though.
Most hated and wins all the time = New England Patriots. Pretty boy quarterback, coach is a complete jerk and sore loser, and they get caught cheating every few years. |
02-04-2013, 04:06 PM
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Originally Posted by hdracer | Cowboys it is. |
02-04-2013, 04:10 PM
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Originally Posted by mmbongo Most hated by far = Dallas Cowboys...but they are pathetic. They spend the most money, though.
Most hated and wins all the time = New England Patriots. Pretty boy quarterback, coach is a complete jerk and sore loser, and they get caught cheating every few years. | My team in Australia, don't cheat and have spent a fair bit of time outside the finals, although we're on a roll at the moment.
They're hated for some stuff that went down in the 60s & 70s. |
02-04-2013, 04:14 PM
|  | Just days from retirement. | | Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: Lincoln, NE | | | That used to be the Raiders. Even the Commissioner hated the team and the owner, especially the owner. But, alas, their glory days seemingly are over.
Now it's whatever team Michael Vick is on, the Cowboys, Steelers, and the Donkeys.
Friends favorite team is Brisbane Lions.
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02-04-2013, 04:17 PM
|  | Tone that I have. Skill? Oh, that? Well.... | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Great White North | | Wow would not have thought that this would have been so difficult.......
The New England Patriots, and their coach Bill Belicheat
AKA: The Evil Empire and the hoodie
Why you ask.......
The Tuck Rule, which is a discussion for another forum and the beginning of the end of the then resurgent Raiders. The refs HANDED the interception back to G.W. Bush's favourite team.
The Arrogance on display PROVIDED they're winning, and the poutyness when their losing, even their mascot is smarmy...
Spygate - Proven BTW so it seems they cheated on the Rams the Eagles and the Panthers to get Superbowl wins.
Etc etc etc....
I used to follow Aussie rulz Football. I remember a guy on the Geelong Cats nicknamed Majic and some monster named Anthony Danahier(?) of Melborne. Watched that guy carry another player in a headlock, catch the ball one handed, then turn and kick the goal, unreal....
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02-04-2013, 04:27 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2012 Location: Portland, Oregon USA | | | I don't know why a rugby fan would even be interested in American football. Especially a fan of a team named the Manly Sea-Eagles. Maybe the greatest team name ever!
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02-04-2013, 04:57 PM
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02-04-2013, 05:01 PM
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Originally Posted by MatticusMania Who won yesterday? | There won't be a parade here in San Francisco, that's all I'm saying.
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02-04-2013, 05:05 PM
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Originally Posted by slobake There won't be a parade here in San Francisco, that's all I'm saying. | Liar! Theres always a parade in San Francisco!
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02-04-2013, 05:07 PM
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Originally Posted by MatticusMania Liar! Theres always a parade in San Francisco! | Busted! What can I say. Okay there won't be a parade involving guys with glandular disorders who bump into other guys with glandular disorders.
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02-04-2013, 05:12 PM
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