Friday Question: Which athlete do you hate the most?

In a perfect world there would be no hate. I don’t know if John Lennon said that, or Elmo de Sesame Street. Obviously, we should all aspire to hate less and love more, but when it comes to sports, that is not an option.

Naturally, there are athletes in which we grow with a hat with a red -red passion. People who brave our blood boil every time place food in the field, courts, ice or any game surface in the sacrifice. Today we think we would share the stories of the players who never Forgive and still chase us until today.

Never, never, I will forgive Brooks Orpik

By James Dator, SB Nation.com

I fully understand that if you are a fan of the pens, then Orpik is a hero for you, but supplies the guy. It is a beef for almost 20 years, and I do not see that it ends in my life.

So allow me to establish the scene: it is 2006 and My My promised Carolina Hurricanes is having the season that dreams are made. Eric Staal has ascended to be one of the best young centers in the NHL, Cam Ward is breaking on the network and making salvages that are apparently impossible, and with veteran leaders such as Rod Id-A’Mour, Doug Weighty and Gethey.

We approach the Stanley Cup playoffs. It is March 6, a Beens The Think and Canes game, two of the best hockey teams. Then the unthinkable happens. Orpik established this story of loving the youngest boys. At some level, I do not blame, because that is the work of an executor, but the wing of Carolina Erik Cole, who turned his back. Orpik approached him from behind, fracturing a vertebra in the school’s neck.

No one in the NHL was reputed to be as a child and kind as Erik Cole. His teammates obviously loved him, the opponents simply talked about how they would learn that they had personal problems and called or sent cards. It was just that boy or boy. And here is Brooks Orpik standing around him when Cole cannot physically move on the ice, apparently pleased that he would use 6’3, a 218 pound frame to bathe a guy who was a short inch and 20 pounds to the light as he.

Cole would be to return in game 6 of the Stanley Cup finals and had the opportunity to experience winning the Cup, but was the same player after the blow. It is a will of Cole’s hardness that went on to play as long as he did.

You know what you did, Ulf Samuelsson

By Mark Schofield, SB Nation.com

Last week ate SB Nation, We argued to the players whose game broke us as fans, and I went with Wade Boggs.

It was a decision that occurred after a long internal debate.

The other player I thought was Ray Bourque, the defense of a lot of time for the Boston Bruins who approached many times, but never enjoyed the opportunity to lift the Stanley Cup while in Boston. Bourque meant the world for the Bruins, their fans and the Boston metropolitan area, but left in 2001, changed to the avalanche of Colorado.

But it was a bittersweet game, since Boston sent him to a place to give the opportunity to finally win a Stanley Cup. And when Colorado won a title, four days later, Bourque returned to Boston, as champion of the Stanley Cup, sharing that cup with Boston fans.

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What takes me to one of the seasons that had a legitimate opportunity in a championship, the 1990-1991 and ULF Samuelsson NHL campaign.

The Bruins were the best team of the Prince of Wales conference, ending the regular season with 100 points, the only team that reached the triples at the conference. Bourque led the road with 94 points, followed by the Craig Janney center and the end Cam Neely. ALL THREE FINISHED WITH EIGHT POINTS AS THE BRUINS WONS EL OPENING-ROUND SERIES TO TWO ABOUT THE HARTFORD WHALERS, AND BOSTON DEFERED THE HATED MONTREAL CANADIENS FOUR GAMES TO THREE TO WIN THE ADAMS DIVISION FINALS. and the Pitux and the Pitux and the Pitux and the Pitture Lemiex and the Pitux and the Pitux and the Pitux and the Pitux and the Pituux and the Pitux and the Pitux and the Pitux and the Pitux and the Pitture Lemiex and the Pitux and the Pitux and the Pitux and the Pitux and the Pitux and Pittux and the Pitux and the Pituux and the Pitux and the Pitture Lemiex and the Pitux and the Pitux and the Pittux and the Pittuux and the Pittuux and the Pittuux and the Pittux and the Pittugt.

Boston won the first two games in the old Boston Garden, 6-3 in game 1 and 5-4 in an extra-time victory in game 2, and the series moved to Pittsburgh with the Bruins two victories from his third appearance in the Stanley Cup final. Having lost to the Edmonton Oilers in 1988 and 1990, a rematch was in everyone’s mind.

But in game 3, everything changed.

In a play on the outskirts of Boston Blue Line, Samuelsson caught Neely with a leg control, which resulted in a knee to the knee hit the end of Boston wrinkled on the ice, before slowly skating to the bank. In that bank, Boston coach Mike Milbury was losing his head, with sticks while waiting for a penalty to be called.

It never was.

Here is that success, and you can judge by yourself:

The best view is: 39 brand.

Neely had problems with the rest of the series, which Pittsburgh won four games to two, before defeating the Minnesota North Stars to win the Stanley Cup.

As for Neely, it was never the same. A serious leg and knee condition was developed, and played in just 22 games in the next two seasons and only 162 of a potential 410 before retiring. Finally, he retired due to a degenerative condition of the hip, but the knee injury that suffered as a result of Samuelsson’s coup was undoubtedly a contributing factor. Neely suffered calcification in the thigh muscle around that knee, and if you try to convince any Bruins’ fan that the posterior hip condition was not related to the success of Samuelson, prepare for approximately 30 minutes of reasons why you are completely wrong.

Boston returned to the finals of the conference the following year, only to be swept by the penguins. As for Neely, he played in just nine games the duration of the 1991-1992 campaign, all in the regular season.

The Bruins did not return to a conference final until the 2010-2011 season, the year they defeated the Vancouver Canucks in seven games to raise the Stanley Cup for the first time since the 1971-1972 season.

At that time, Neely had been retired for more than a decade.

For more information about the mood of “what would happen if” the success of Samuelsson, this piece of Soup Stanley Cup It is worth your time.

Years later, Neely declared that Samuelson’s blow was “behind” him.

But for Boston fans, it might not be behind us.

Cleveland’s hatred runs deeply, John Elway wins the assent

By Jared Mueller, Dawgs by nature

I was not going to lie, there was no way to have a name here, so he will get a bit of Cleveland’s sports history before focusing on Elway.

• The raincale decision maker (it is not an athlete but I do not care): the 2016 World Series between the Indians and the Guardians entered the ninth entry of the game 7 tied. Then, a little rain became a little heavier, and someone in MLB decided to slow down Cleveland’s impulse and allow Chicago to restart. The puppies won, the Indian fans will never forgive that decision that seemed an exaggerated reaction and we believe it led to the loss.
• Michael Freaking Jordan – The Cavaliers, led by Mark Price, Brad Daughyy, Craig Ehlo, Larry Nance, Ron Harper and others, should be champions and acquaintances in the history of the NBA. Jordan, including and especially “The Shot”, prevented that. His greatness was easy to love, since everyone wanted to “be like Mike”, but being the impediment that those Cavs teams could not overcome the hatred. (Not to mention that LeBron James never has a fair opportunity to overcome MJ in Cabra’s conversation).
• Pete Rose-back in the news after his death, Rose was a great all time in baseball, but his decision to run over the Ray Fosse Indians receiver in the reputation of All-Star games of 1970 with the people of Cleveland. At 23, Fosse was an All-Star for the first time when Rose hit the 12th fractured entrance and separated Fosse’s left shoulder. While the receiver played 12 seasons, he was never close to the player who was before those injuries and shoulder problems until his death in 2021.
• Art Modell (not an athlete, so he was allowed to be the answer, but he is the answer for most Cleveland’s hatred) – Modell stole the heart of the city (the Browns) and escaped. Greater words that hate are better used to describe how Cleveland feels about Modell.

In Elway.

Everyone knows about “The Fumble” and “The Drive”, but there was something about how Elway took (in addition to ruining Browns’ seasons in consecutive and three of four of the four appearances in the playoffs) that established that he gave him hatred. To this day, the things that are said about theway around the city are simply not pleasant (or appropriate).

Similar to Jordan, Elway was the problem that Browns could never understand. Unlike Jordan, he was the largest QB of all time or anything. That made it more difficult, but Elway’s big smile, forcing Indianapolis and a great personality presented an arrogant personality that Cleveland fans still hate. The Denver Broncos are a rival, in the minds of Brown fans, to this day because Elway is involved with the team as an executive and for history.

And last week …

We process our feelings arguing which one we saw only to destroy when they left our teams. The SB Nation’s commune had some excellent answers.