When you are a sports fan there are just certain athletes that get under your skin and it’s mostly because said athlete is not on your team and is just very good. Now this list takes a special place in your heart if wagering on games is to your liking. There are certain players that seem to burn you every time and just infuriate you to want to do bodily harm to someone and it is because of this that I have derived this list. In no particular order of hatred.

1. Vince Young- In such a short career Vince Young has burned gamblers and fantasy owners worse than most athletes could in a full career. This year billed as a top 5 fantasy quarterback millions of people jumped on the bandwagon, the chance to have your quarterback rush for 1,000 yards and 10 touchdowns, not to mention using that cannon of an arm for even more points. Is that what we got no, 8 games in and he continues to have games where he throws for under 100 yards and not even come close to those running totals that everyone was drooling for. Then comes the gambling aspect, even though he continues to be horrible he is always at his best when he needs two useless touchdowns in the last 4 minutes to lose by 10. Never bet against this guy when he is part of a line that your like, that can’t lose, he will screw you and you can bet on that. If only those useless 4th quarter drives counted towards fantasy supremacy. Vince Young you have been punched in the face.

2. Brett Favre- As a Bears fan there is not a player in the league that we have wanted to punch in the face for the last 15 years more than this guy. He has continually destroyed us almost single handedly. The reason that I want to punch him in the face though is because he is freaking great, he is. No true football fan would not have wanted this guy quarterbacking there team in the last 15 years. He is unbelievable, durable, and actually a likeable guy. For the last few years I had felt sorry for him and almost didn’t want to punch him in the face anymore, I just wanted to him to retire and go out with his dignity because he looked like a shell of himself, but in true Favre fashion, he has ressurected his career with an influx of good young receivers and he looks like he did 7-8 years ago and now I want to punch him even more because he didn’t retire when he had the chance. Now once again as a Bears fan I have to look up at there 6-1 record in the standings and figure out a way to meet Brett Favre and punch him in the face, but he should be ok with this because this is a respect punch. GO BEARS

3. Rajon Rando- This is personal and he is only on this list because of one Winter saturday two years ago. Rando and is Kentucky Wildcats were playing Louisville and the Wildcats decided to play like complete crap and this was ok because someone I knew had possibly placed a little wager on the Cardinals. The wildcats played like crap and were completely dominated, Kentucky played soft and just completely gave up in the second half and then down 20 with 2 minutes to go and the cardinals covering the 10, Rajon Rando decided it was time to pad the stat line and play hard for 2 minutes (his first two hard playing minutes of the game by the way his stat line in the last two minutes read like this 2 minutes, 3 steals and 5 uncontested layups with the Cards not playing any defense. He did not pass the ball once in the last 2 minutes and then to drive the dagger into the heart he hits a 15 foot jumper at the buzzer and Kentucky loses by 8, screw Tim Donaghy I want someone to look into this crap. I hope he destroys the Celtics this year and is the reason they don’t win a title.

4. Joakim Noah- I don’t think that any college basketball player has gotten under the skin of so many college fans in the last 10 years than this guy. Not only is he the most annoying player of the last decade, he has got to be the ugliest and that is a deadly combination. It’s one of those things, kind of like if there’s an annoying girl you can deal with it if she’s hot, but if she’s annoying and ugly it’s just to much to handle. The even worse thing about Noah was his team was great which meant there was a great amount of him on television every week. I was just happy when his career was over and we would go to a team that wasn’t on television that much in the state I live in Illinois, but then the Bulls went and made him there top pick and a little part of me died having to think about seeing his face in a bulls jersey for the next 10 years…sickening. Let’s just hope the Lakers want him in the deal for Kobe. Go Kobe Bryant, maybe Kobe can puch him in the face for me in passing.

5. Any Chicago Cub baseball Fan- I know I hate saying this since I am a diehard Cub fan, but sometime I think we need to step back and punch ourselves in the face or let someone else do it for us. We are annoying, overzealous, and in your face. We cheer for a team who now has not won a world series in 100 years. We show up every year in record numbers to a stadium that is a heavenly place, but needs to be replaced. I believe as long as we play in Wrigley and our just happy to show up every year we will not understand that we have now dealt with this for 100 years. Every time we when two games in a row we are the first to tell everyone watch out we’re on fire. For 100 years we have utilized it’s the our year speech. We brag of our free agent signings and then don’t own up when they suck. We live and die for this team and we let everyone know our feelings. As every cub fan believes our year will come and until it does I do feel sorry for other baseball fans that must listen to our BS every year, but that might be better than the crap that would come out of our mouth if we ever did win. So we’ll hold off on this punch till we win our title.