I, uh... don't actually hate Desmond Howard.
It's not my fault! Desmond Howard, boyishly handsome though he is, did most of his damage to the Buckeye state before my time: from 1989 through 1991 he was undefeated against Ohio State, culminating in a punt return that made everyone in Ohio mad for... well, going on 29 years now.
Howard won the Heisman after that, which, alright. He was a versatile athlete who caught a lot of touchdowns and housed a kickoff and the aforementioned punt return. He was good-to-great in 1991, and while "Heisman winner Desmond Howard" seems a bit much, I don't have a beef with that.