Diamonds in the rough.

August 30, 2001 1:11 PM

Diamonds in the rough. ESPN lists the top ten most hated NFL players of all time as selected by you, John Q. Public! Just looking through this, it's a sick reminder that we pay/paid murderers, cocaine addicts, and wife beaters more money in a year than we'll ever see in our lives. What ever happened to sportsmanship and being a role model, anyway? Or just plain not killing people, for that matter...OJ!...*cough, cough*...
posted by fusinski (7 comments total)

It's a bell curve. With a group of people that large there are bound to be some turkeys.
posted by Steven Den Beste at 1:25 PM on August 30, 2001

How sick am I that Mr. Not Ready For PrimeTime is pictured in a Skins uniform?

SERENITY NOW!
At least we've got Darrell Green to balance him out.
posted by owillis at 1:30 PM on August 30, 2001

LOL owillis I feel so sorry for you man... if that guy ever put on Lions gear i'd hang myself in my garage.
posted by fusinski at 1:35 PM on August 30, 2001

Yay, my first thought made the list!

Ryan Leaf makes the baby jesus shriek like a flaming sack of cats.
posted by Skot at 3:13 PM on August 30, 2001

Only reason Elway got the "dishonorable mention" is because he was such a brillant loser for so many years. Three competionless Super Bowls, an endless parade in every NFL city of "should've beat ems", in his younger years the quickest linebackers couldn't even bring him down in a mad scramble and standing in the pocket, and in light of all this he went out on top Back2Back.

He was the end and the beginning of a few of those listed as well.
End: Bosworth
Beginning: Sharpe

Now sadly, word has it, he's to become a prick conservative politician should his hankering call for such a career. Dishonorable mention indeed.
posted by crasspastor at 3:33 PM on August 30, 2001

Well, there is precedent for NFL QBs becoming idiot conservative politicians
posted by owillis at 9:04 PM on August 30, 2001

Shoulda said players. Largent was a WR.
posted by owillis at 9:05 PM on August 30, 2001