I Dislike Your Favorite Team

It’s been far too long that the name of this site has been ignored and that the content of this site has stayed away from naming the teams we dislike. With the NFL pre-season starting this weekend I thought it might be time to let the readers know just whose favorite team I dislike.

If you live somewhere east of the Mississippi, west of Lake Michigan and North of Illinois, then I dislike your favorite team. If you never had a favorite team, then all of a sudden in the mid-90’s, while you were living in Minnesota or Iowa, and voila you had a favorite championship team, then I dislike your favorite team. If you consume more cheese annually then you do vegetables, or if you live in the most obese county in America, or if your idea of a sophisticated night out is a round of put-put at Jellystone , a brat and 17 beers, then I dislike your favorite team. Let me see if I can put this more succinctly…If you are a cheesehead, a blaze-orange camouflage-wearin’ numbnuts...literally(Put your clothes back on its 10 Below!), a Packer Fan, then I dislike your favorite team.



Now, there is very little personal about this dislike (I guess hate better describes it), it is more the product of the locale of my origin and a lifelong love of the Vikings. However, the bandwagon that was created in the mid to late 90’s drove that inherited dislike to an all new level of out-and-out hatred. I have little patience for people who call themselves “Big Fans” but have little to no understanding of the game and wouldn’t have known Brett Favre from Walt Whitman until the Packers won the Super Bowl. Like a once in a century cicada infestation, the fair weather fans came out of nowhere flying Packer flags on their cars and wearing those god awful leather letterman-type Packer jackets. Their ignorance was generally on display with their mullets and mustaches. I am just starting to recover from that era of Packer fandom. Now that they have returned to sucking, my hatred has dwindled somewhat.

Feeding my immense dislike/hatred of the Green Bay Packers is the unnatural man-love for Brett Favre that John Madden displays every time he calls a Packer game. Madden’s man crush on Favre makes me feel both angry and awkward. It has been a bit more palatable in recent years since Madden’s praise/infatuation of Favre seems off target now that he is on the short road to being washed up. Like Derek Jeter, Brett Favre is one of those players I have always respected because of the way he plays the game, but I never find it hard to root against him. In fact, there is little I enjoy more than watching Brett Favre getting walloped by a Viking and throwing up a prayer that gets picked off. If patterns are to be maintained, then I should see plenty of that this year, even though he thinks he is surrounded by the "most talented team that I've been a part of as a whole."

There are other teams that I dislike, but that is for another time. I felt compelled to begin where it all started. Packer fans I dislike your favorite team.