Doing their best Buzzfeed impression, Sporting News unveiled their list-icle (that’s an abbrev for list + article, obvi) of the "40 most hated NFL players of all time: loudmouths, cheaters and criminals" yesterday. The fact that Tom Brady’s on this list – and pretty darn high, mind you – shouldn’t be surprising, but some of the guys he beats in the hater power rankings might be.
Sporting News laid out their definition of "most hated" and limited it to "players who were hated while they were on the field". That allows them to, conveniently (and thankfully) exclude grade-A screwups like Aaron Hernandez, Rae Carruth, O.