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Part of the joy of sports from a fan’s perspective is finding a team or player to hate. Sure, it’s great to root for your home town team, it’s great to follow a team for your whole life and stick with them through thick and thin, it’s great to want someone to succeed.

But on the flip side, you can’t have a hero unless there’s a great villain nearby.

When Tom Brady blew out his knee in the opening game of the season, it left a void deep in my soul. Here we are approaching week 3 and I find myself unsatisfied… I simply don’t have anyone I strongly dislike enough to root against. I need to pray for the demise of a good team and their leader to save my NFL season.

By process of elimination…. Aaron Rodgers will step into Tom Brady’s shoes as my most hated athlete of 2008. Unlike Tom, Aaron hasn’t done anything to me or my favorite teams…. but the fact that he’s doing so well coupled with the sour taste of how the Packers front office handled the Favre situation makes him a prime candidate.

Right about now.. you’d be hard pressed to find anti-Aaron Rodgers folks on the internet, he’s doing so damned well that his haters are silent. But not I…..It’s never any fun to root against a team that already sucks, and I needed to choose someone successful.

Here’s to praying for Aaron’s demise in 2008.

Salute!

I know my readers expect me to jump for joy right now. Sportaphile.com IS your one stop shop for anti-New England sentiment on the internet. But I’d be lying to you if I said I was happy Brady tore his ACL 15 minutes into the season. I might talk a lot of shit from time to time, but it’s not good to see a top player in a league blow out his knee like that.

I’d much rather see Tom Brady play all 16 games and struggle mightily, racking up sack after sack… but still rising to his feet after it’s done. Am I happy that New England won’t be returning to the Super Bowl?? Of course, I just wish it happened a little differently.

I wrote a post in February about ‘The Curse Of The Super Bowl Losers’, which illustrated how the last seven teams who lost in the super bowl failed to make the playoffs the following year (with the exception of Seattle).

Unless there’s an unbelievable act of heroism by Matt Cassel this year, it’s safe to assume New England will NOT duplicate the success of 2007…. thus extending the legacy of the Super Bowl Curse.

Almost two months ago, I wrote a post detailing how the Oakland Raiders dissed LaMont Jordan by telling him “don’t show up for work”. For the last sixty days the Raiders have been trying to trade LaMont, but nobody would accept a deal (the Raiders had no leverage). Oakland grudgingly released Jordan from his contract a few days ago and received no compensation.

Being the snazzy little fuckers they are, the New England Patriots signed LaMont to a contract on Sunday afternoon. He’ll provide a nice little one-two punch with Lawrence Maroney next season. Don’t get me wrong, I hate the Patriots but I do acknowledge that they have a very good team (it’s the least I can do).

LaMont has to be thrilled he went from the most dysfunctional franchise in the NFL to one of the most successful.

I came to Sportaphile to deliver my trademark Pulitzer Prize winning sports commentary this morning and noticed the site had been attacked.

Am I sensing a Napoleon complex? I wonder what it was that set them off?

Was the time I said Tedy Bruschi looks like a butch lesbian?
…or the forty three times I mentioned they cheated?
…or the time I implied Tom Brady trolls the m4m ads on Craigslist?
…or the time I called out Vince Wilfork for intentionally injuring J.P. Losman?
…or the time I said Randy Moss was a quitter with no heart?
…or the time I called their linebackers old men who get tired when you run at them?
…or the times I made fun of that crazed naked Patriots fan lady?
…or the time I mentioned Rodney Harrison was the dirtiest player in football?

…or the time… you get the point….

I’ll recommend a movie to you guys, called Sorry, Haters!!. It’s extremely good, one of the best independent films I’ve seen in the last year or so. The end of the movie will blow your mind…