Wow, a thread right up my alley. Get ready, this could be a long list and I've got a damn good reason for each and every team
Let's get a few of basic ones out of the way first:
Yankees - They are from New York and I cheer for the Braves... nuff said.
Lakes - Fun to hate the winners and I really dispise Shaq and Kobe's whining.
Texas Longhorns - one name, Mac Brown. He used to be the head coach at Carolina, he will be forever hated for this reason. Once he moves on, I'll probably be neutral towards Texas.
Now things start to get a little more personal:
Carolina Hurricanes - I absolutely hate hockey. It's a yankee sport and needs to stay in Canada and the north. You can imagine my dismay when the Hurricanes moved to Raleigh. Not only am I forced to see their damn little flags waving on about every carpet bagger's car but I find it hard to enjoy NC State home basketball games because of the Hurricane shit hanging from the rafters and put around the walk areas. I hope this fuckers leave town before too long.
Florida Gators - this was primarily because of my hate for Spurrier but continues because of their fans. This all stems back from my experience as a child at the 1992 Gator Bowl. It was NC State vs. Florida. The Wolfpack lost and their fans were the obnoxious assholes on the planet. I was just 8 years old or so at the time and they were all in face, waving their damned blue/orange pom-poms and taunting me the entire walk back through the stadium to the car. No class at all.
East Carolina - this is a pretty bitter one that stems a lot from their fans and a lot of hurt pride on my behalf. I remember clearly one trip to Charlotte for a special meeting between NC State and ECU. It was a rainy, miserable day and the game wasn't much better. The pack got their asses handed to them but this second rate, chicken shit operation. This was in the dark years of Wolfpack football under Mike O'Cain. Their fans were tactless and classless 100% as well. My famly refers to them as "vandals" instead of "pirates" for the shit they've pulled at Carter-Finley Stadium in Raleigh. It burns me up just talking about it.
Ok, so those are the personal ones, now its time for the deep rooted, programed hatred.
Georgia: This is a recently formed one. Since I became a student at Georgia Tech, I realized I had to hate these people, at first just for the sake of the rivalry but it has evovled. Watching this past years game against them certainly didn't help any either. On top of that they are cheaters, their university is a sleaze pit, a white trash version of Chapel Hill.
Carolina:
This has been hatred from birth. This is one of those things where it is good vs. evil, God against the devil, USA vs. USSR, Allies vs. Hitler. NC State vs. UNC is the same, if not more important.
Let me give you a little bit of background info on myself and my family first, it will help explain this. My father and uncle both went to NC State where they fostered their initial hatred. My dad had a sticker on his locker that said this:
"<insert picture of carolina blue here> This is carolina blue, see it, hate it, BEAT IT!"
My Dad did an excellent job of passing this hatred on to me. A story that is often told about him is that he cheeered for the Soviets over unc during the cold war. I guess a more modern comparison would be if Osama Bin Laden or Saddam played against unc. I would happily cheer for anyone who plays against Carolina, even if they've just finished slaughtering a 1000 school children, they are still less evil than carolina.
If anyone here is a local to triangle, they probably remember when carolina's mascot was kidnapped and brutatly killed. I remember my teacher in school at the time was a big carolina fan and she was making us write letters or some bullshit like that in class to the university expressing out sadness and support. I wrote about how sad I was that I didnt' get to see the damn thing suffer and wasn't apart of burning its carcass. Yeah... I got in trouble but the assignment was one sided carolina fed bullshit.
Growing up, I was one of the few State fans at my school, all throughout elementary school I had smug UNC fans for friends and teachers. I grew up through some dark years too. Oh, there were some good times during my early youth, but I was too young to enjoy it. I started to really take football personall at the end of Dick Sheridan's reign and the start of Mike O'Cain's drop to the bottom. I watched State go from a 6 or 7 game winning streak against Carolina to a 6 or 7 game losing streak against those bastards. After every game I would take it in the chin wherever I went, friends, teachers, hell out fucking local paper might as well be carolina blue.
That's just football, its difficult for me to talk about basketball. These past two years in basketball are the only times I can vividly remember State sweeping Carolina. I had to sufer through those years of carolina's NCAA championships, hearing about Jordan's championships (oh yes, I was never able to forget where he came from), and just a constant attack on the things I held dear to me in the world. On top of that I am reminded of them everywhere I turn. Those pig fuckers had to choose the state nickname as their mascot. So around town I always see stuff like "Tarheel body shop" or "Tarheel eatery" or "Tarhell computer". I hate every last one of those establishments.
Brighter times are upon me now though. I had the pleasure of sitting in the ram's club section of Kenan Stadium to see the Pack beat unc this past fall. It was simply beautiful, watching their beaten students file out of stadium with nothing more to say then, "well... at least we don't go to a cow college" (NC State is often called "moo u" by stupid unc fans because of its rich agriculture and vet programs, however this isn't even the main focus of the school anymore, State is well known and respected engineering institution, not just another bullshit, liberal arts girl's school). My car got rear ended on the way home from the gam but that didn't even phase me, I was too happy about the outcome of the game.
Even though I am converting myself to die hard Georga Tech fan (which is tough considering for the 18 years I was diehard wolfpack all the way), I will always hate carolina. That is one that thing that will remain constant. I will always, always hate carolina. The sight of an arena full of carolina blue physically brings pains to my eyes. I can barely stand to watch carolina home games on tv, I can feel my eyes start to burn slightly when it pans to the crowd and you see them all decked out in white and pussy blue. I hate them so very, very much.
The sad part about all this is that as I lessen my ties to NC State they enter a period of success. The basketball program is finally out of the gutter and Chuck Amato has the football program on the way, in the next couple years I fully expect this team to finish in the top five. On the flip side, as I establish my ties to Georgia Tech the football program is at the start of what seems to be a downward slide. Gone are the years of O'Leary and the Fridge where Tech would compete for the ACC title and often be seen in the Gator Bowl. We are also a long way from Tech's 1990 national title. It seems as though I'm doomed to cheer for the beaten, nearly broken, annual underdog but we shall see.
So there you have it, my mini novel about my deep rooted hatred of some teams in the world of sports. I can imagine if all of us were in a room together that probably most of you would be stepping back from me right about now. That's completely understandable, I admit I take college sports, way, way, way too seriously and I probably have small screw loose somewhere because of it. But, I'm a diehard college sports fan, that's how I am, and that's how I'll die. Or who knows, it might kill me. I've nearly broken my hand punching the wall after frustrating losses on more occasions than I care to admit.