Greg's Top Ten Least Favorite Current Athletes:
1. LeBron James (NBA): This pick might be all to obvious to some of you out there. I used to actually root for him when he played for the Cavaliers, hoping he could be the guy that turned around the fledgling franchise which had not won an NBA title since entering the league in 1970. By now you all know the story that followed: he left Cleveland, did a ridiculously arrogant spot on ESPN where he said he was "taking his talents to South Beach" and joined new Miami Heat teammates Chris Bosh and Dwyane Wade on stage in Miami as if they had already won an title and got bounced by the Dallas Mavericks in the NBA Finals. I'm not an NBA fanatic and I was rooting for the Mavs to KILL the Heat when they met last year in the Finals. After the Heat lost, the ever classy LeBron said this about NBA fans who rooted for him to lose:
"All the people that were rooting on me to fail, at the end of the day, they have to wake up tomorrow and have the same life that they had before they woke up today. They have the same personal problems they had today. I’m going to continue to live the way I want to live and continue to do the things that I want to do with me and my family and be happy with that."
If that doesn't come off as completely elitist, spoiled and arrogant then nothing will. Kobe Bryant used to be the heel of the NBA - the villain everyone loved to hate. No question, King James now owns that crown all to himself.
2. James Harrison (NFL): I used to hate dirty players like Rodney Harrison and Chuck Cecil when they played in the NFL. James Harrison might be dirtier than both of them...combined. While his Steelers teammate Troy Polamalu might also play with a reckless style, he is a total class act off the field and well respected by opponents and teammates alike. Harrison comes off like the kid you went to grade school with who steals lunch money from kids behind the gym and stuffs them in their lockers after. Let's take a look at Harrison's resume of douche: he was suspended for two games his senior year of high school for challenging a coach to a fight, the first game after his suspension he was ejected from the game for making obscene gestures to fans, he shot a BB gun at a defensive coach in his high school locker room and ended up in court...this is all before he even played in the NFL! Today he continues being a complete tool as a pro athlete often getting heavily fined and suspended for taking cheap shots at his opponents. Seriously, I can't stand this freaking guy.
3. Albert Haynesworth (NFL):
"Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son." - Dean Wormer in Animal House
Well, Haynesworth has two out of the three. He's the posterchild for overpaid and underperforming pro athletes. After having one spectacular year playing for the Tennessee Titans, the Washington Redskins threw over $100 million at the free agent - the largest sum of money ever given to a defensive free agent. Care to see how Haynesworth paid back the generous team? With efforts like this one:
1. LeBron James (NBA): This pick might be all to obvious to some of you out there. I used to actually root for him when he played for the Cavaliers, hoping he could be the guy that turned around the fledgling franchise which had not won an NBA title since entering the league in 1970. By now you all know the story that followed: he left Cleveland, did a ridiculously arrogant spot on ESPN where he said he was "taking his talents to South Beach" and joined new Miami Heat teammates Chris Bosh and Dwyane Wade on stage in Miami as if they had already won an title and got bounced by the Dallas Mavericks in the NBA Finals. I'm not an NBA fanatic and I was rooting for the Mavs to KILL the Heat when they met last year in the Finals. After the Heat lost, the ever classy LeBron said this about NBA fans who rooted for him to lose:
"All the people that were rooting on me to fail, at the end of the day, they have to wake up tomorrow and have the same life that they had before they woke up today. They have the same personal problems they had today. I’m going to continue to live the way I want to live and continue to do the things that I want to do with me and my family and be happy with that."
If that doesn't come off as completely elitist, spoiled and arrogant then nothing will. Kobe Bryant used to be the heel of the NBA - the villain everyone loved to hate. No question, King James now owns that crown all to himself.
2. James Harrison (NFL): I used to hate dirty players like Rodney Harrison and Chuck Cecil when they played in the NFL. James Harrison might be dirtier than both of them...combined. While his Steelers teammate Troy Polamalu might also play with a reckless style, he is a total class act off the field and well respected by opponents and teammates alike. Harrison comes off like the kid you went to grade school with who steals lunch money from kids behind the gym and stuffs them in their lockers after. Let's take a look at Harrison's resume of douche: he was suspended for two games his senior year of high school for challenging a coach to a fight, the first game after his suspension he was ejected from the game for making obscene gestures to fans, he shot a BB gun at a defensive coach in his high school locker room and ended up in court...this is all before he even played in the NFL! Today he continues being a complete tool as a pro athlete often getting heavily fined and suspended for taking cheap shots at his opponents. Seriously, I can't stand this freaking guy.
3. Albert Haynesworth (NFL):
"Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son." - Dean Wormer in Animal House
Well, Haynesworth has two out of the three. He's the posterchild for overpaid and underperforming pro athletes. After having one spectacular year playing for the Tennessee Titans, the Washington Redskins threw over $100 million at the free agent - the largest sum of money ever given to a defensive free agent. Care to see how Haynesworth paid back the generous team? With efforts like this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFzp3uHua40
That's right people, he just laid down on the play. Before you come to his defense, he wasn't hurt on the play unless you consider a lack of testicular fortitude to be an injury. The guy is just plain lazy. Still not convinced he's worthy of being on the list? Check out this classy move Haynesworth used on fallen opponent Andre Gurode of the Dallas Cowboys:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5nlEA8BUTQ
4. Serena Williams (Tennis): Watching her chew out tennis officials when they make calls she disagrees with makes me sick. She's a great player but a disgrace to the sport when she chooses to whine like a baby and act like she's above everyone. There's no place in the sport for threatening umpires and throwing childish tantrums that are usually typical of 2nd graders. I root for her to lose every time I see her on television and despise how she's able to get away with treating people so poorly. After losing a match in the 2011 US Open Finals she was quoted as saying this to the umpire: "If you ever see me walking down the hall, look the other way." and "You're out of control. ... You're a hater, and you're just unattractive inside." When people say her name in the same sentence as Billie Jean King or Chris Evert it makes me sick. She's not even half as classy as either one of those legends and shouldn't be allowed to continue treating people like trash.
5. Tiger Woods (PGA): Even before he cheated on his wife with enough women to fill a WNBA roster, I never thought highly of his attitude. I could never argue with his tremendous work ethic and success as an athlete, but he always seemed put off by fans and onlookers. I got the impression that his idea of golf heaven would be to remove the fans from the greens and have the course all to himself. Though I'll admit, he would not have made this list were it not for all of his transgressions away from home. Because I work in the psychology realm, I understand the difficulties that addicts deal with, but I still have a hard time feeling badly for this guy. Somehow the world has a way of humbling arrogant people like LeBron and Tiger and I'm glad we're all witnesses to it.
6. Philip Rivers (NFL): Notice how arrogance is a theme among these players? He taunts fans, talks trash to opponents and has zero rings. Not that having Super Bowl rings enables a player to suddenly talk crap to everyone, but it certainly helps. Hall of Famer Shannon Sharpe might be the most well known trash talker in NFL history but he was hilarious when he opened his yap and left the game with three Super Bowl rings. Rivers just comes off like a child when he bitches and moans. He has a face I would like to print, cut out and use as a dartboard in my garage. He also completely screwed he in fantasy football this year, so he can kiss my rosy red butt for all I care.
7. Manny Ramirez (MLB): I have a hard time calling him an athlete considering how lazy and slow his flabby ass is. He looks like crap when he comes out of the dugout, as if he rolled out of bed and grabbed the first jersey he found crumpled on the floor. He puts about as much effort into his defensive play as Lindsay Lohan does into maintaining sobriety. The cherry on top was when he got caught for using performance enhancing drugs. His career numbers are Hall of Fame worthy, but his recent suspensions for using PEDs ensures that he won't soon be entering Cooperstown without purchasing a ticket at the gate.
8. DeSean Jackson (NFL): One of my all-time favorite moments in NFL history:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIWWrdDNBRU
That's right, he caught a gorgeous deep pass from Donovan McNabb and proceeded to discard the ball before getting into the end zone, turning the ball over to the Dallas Cowboys. The Eagles lost the game 41-37. I understand that this kind of mistake could happen to anyone once. Here's the thing, he did it before...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBrxSI58JoU
Yes, he did it in high school. You'd think he'd have learned his lesson for being a self-centered showboat, but noooooooooooo. These days he's busy giving up on his struggling team while complaining about not getting a fat contract. Perhaps DeSean Jackson doesn't understand that being a mouthy hack of a football player doesn't equal dollar signs. If you're going to act like a diva, at least have the numbers to back it up, DeSean.
9. Kris Humphries (NBA): I honestly don't know whether to love or hate the guy. I love him for driving Kim Kardashian insane. I fully admit, I've watched their stupid show just to see what the talk is all about and I always loved how he knew exactly how to push Kim's buttons and act like he didn't give two shits that she was upset. At the same time, the guy is a total d-bag. The kind of person who people think about when they consider the stereotypical "Ed Hardy" or "Affliction" shirt wearing jerkoff who thinks he's hot shit even though everyone else thinks he's a steaming pile of cattle dung. To top it off, he's only a marginally decent player in the NBA averaging 6.1 points per game for his career.
10. Hank Baskett (NFL): Thanks, Hank. Thank you very f***ing much.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUM0m2q2gN4
That's right people, he just laid down on the play. Before you come to his defense, he wasn't hurt on the play unless you consider a lack of testicular fortitude to be an injury. The guy is just plain lazy. Still not convinced he's worthy of being on the list? Check out this classy move Haynesworth used on fallen opponent Andre Gurode of the Dallas Cowboys:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5nlEA8BUTQ
4. Serena Williams (Tennis): Watching her chew out tennis officials when they make calls she disagrees with makes me sick. She's a great player but a disgrace to the sport when she chooses to whine like a baby and act like she's above everyone. There's no place in the sport for threatening umpires and throwing childish tantrums that are usually typical of 2nd graders. I root for her to lose every time I see her on television and despise how she's able to get away with treating people so poorly. After losing a match in the 2011 US Open Finals she was quoted as saying this to the umpire: "If you ever see me walking down the hall, look the other way." and "You're out of control. ... You're a hater, and you're just unattractive inside." When people say her name in the same sentence as Billie Jean King or Chris Evert it makes me sick. She's not even half as classy as either one of those legends and shouldn't be allowed to continue treating people like trash.
5. Tiger Woods (PGA): Even before he cheated on his wife with enough women to fill a WNBA roster, I never thought highly of his attitude. I could never argue with his tremendous work ethic and success as an athlete, but he always seemed put off by fans and onlookers. I got the impression that his idea of golf heaven would be to remove the fans from the greens and have the course all to himself. Though I'll admit, he would not have made this list were it not for all of his transgressions away from home. Because I work in the psychology realm, I understand the difficulties that addicts deal with, but I still have a hard time feeling badly for this guy. Somehow the world has a way of humbling arrogant people like LeBron and Tiger and I'm glad we're all witnesses to it.
6. Philip Rivers (NFL): Notice how arrogance is a theme among these players? He taunts fans, talks trash to opponents and has zero rings. Not that having Super Bowl rings enables a player to suddenly talk crap to everyone, but it certainly helps. Hall of Famer Shannon Sharpe might be the most well known trash talker in NFL history but he was hilarious when he opened his yap and left the game with three Super Bowl rings. Rivers just comes off like a child when he bitches and moans. He has a face I would like to print, cut out and use as a dartboard in my garage. He also completely screwed he in fantasy football this year, so he can kiss my rosy red butt for all I care.
7. Manny Ramirez (MLB): I have a hard time calling him an athlete considering how lazy and slow his flabby ass is. He looks like crap when he comes out of the dugout, as if he rolled out of bed and grabbed the first jersey he found crumpled on the floor. He puts about as much effort into his defensive play as Lindsay Lohan does into maintaining sobriety. The cherry on top was when he got caught for using performance enhancing drugs. His career numbers are Hall of Fame worthy, but his recent suspensions for using PEDs ensures that he won't soon be entering Cooperstown without purchasing a ticket at the gate.
8. DeSean Jackson (NFL): One of my all-time favorite moments in NFL history:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIWWrdDNBRU
That's right, he caught a gorgeous deep pass from Donovan McNabb and proceeded to discard the ball before getting into the end zone, turning the ball over to the Dallas Cowboys. The Eagles lost the game 41-37. I understand that this kind of mistake could happen to anyone once. Here's the thing, he did it before...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBrxSI58JoU
Yes, he did it in high school. You'd think he'd have learned his lesson for being a self-centered showboat, but noooooooooooo. These days he's busy giving up on his struggling team while complaining about not getting a fat contract. Perhaps DeSean Jackson doesn't understand that being a mouthy hack of a football player doesn't equal dollar signs. If you're going to act like a diva, at least have the numbers to back it up, DeSean.
9. Kris Humphries (NBA): I honestly don't know whether to love or hate the guy. I love him for driving Kim Kardashian insane. I fully admit, I've watched their stupid show just to see what the talk is all about and I always loved how he knew exactly how to push Kim's buttons and act like he didn't give two shits that she was upset. At the same time, the guy is a total d-bag. The kind of person who people think about when they consider the stereotypical "Ed Hardy" or "Affliction" shirt wearing jerkoff who thinks he's hot shit even though everyone else thinks he's a steaming pile of cattle dung. To top it off, he's only a marginally decent player in the NBA averaging 6.1 points per game for his career.
10. Hank Baskett (NFL): Thanks, Hank. Thank you very f***ing much.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUM0m2q2gN4
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