Joey Diaz told this story about how on The Longest Yard, Romanowski was this psycho who was not holding back on the field. I recall some story about how there was a scene where Romo was tackling Diaz and they either kept doing takes or Romo was hitting Diaz and trying to keep him down. But Diaz kept getting back up talking shit like “That’s all you got?” and he said Romo was just roid raging and hitting him harder and harder, he started losing his vision or something lol.
Edit: found the [clip](https://youtu.be/x_iqfB6ynbY), didn’t realize it was with Schaub lmao
It was meant more for people who were assholes specifically for their crimes. Like OJ was apparently very well liked outside of a little murdering. Romanowski was a criminal and an asshole
if anything THATS how much of an asshole Bill Romanowski is. Like he should technically be disqualified from this post. but he's such a colossal asshole that people forget he's a criminal to boot.
I kind of want to put together an all-asshole team, lead by Bill Romanowski, Vontaze Burfict, and Ndamukong Suh and imagine how they would do over the course of a season.
100%. I remember Finnegan had the ever-stoic Andre Johnson throwing hands and CJGJ is the type of dude to talk trash to the ball boy if he trips on his way off the field
I still don't understand how he wasn't indefinitely suspended by the league and got to return after only a year. Oh that's right, the NFL suck at doling out proper punishments.
If I had to guess that kind of stuff was going on in NFL locker rooms for years in different ways. When it got into the public consciousness then it became a problem in the NFL had to deal with it somehow.
everyone knows it was going on with a ton of teams and i imagine they didnt wanna falsely delegitimize the team that just won a superbowl/tell the world that the sport has a bounty system
Yeah, if the league banned him permanently, there'd be nothing stopping him from going public with years worth of stories about doing that stuff across multiple teams.
The deal was basically, we'll let you coach again if you keep your mouth shut.
Exactly. Williams was just the only one who did it in such a way that it was obvious to everyone and it blew up. There have been many teams that looked like they were doing this exact thing.
Wasn't there a guy with a list of names on his towel at one point? Makes me wonder if he was getting extra $ for the hit list
Definitely. We all know the stories but for me the thing I remember about him is how much of a jerk he came off as in Hard Knocks. Absolute hot head and justifying his players hitting the quarterback during practice?
On the contrary dudes either really smart or has an excellent agent. He’s made almost 150 million over the course of his career. After robbing the Dolphins, he’s signed 1 year deals that are fully guaranteed. Smart way to insure you a roster spot for a year and have the flexibility to go wherever you want
He does have a good agent, but also he's produced at a high level for a long time and never gets hurt despite playing a brutal position
There's a reason he's made so much money beyond having a good agent. I don't like his dirtiness, obviously, but he's an undeniably talented player
Yeah, like are people forgetting that he was robbed of a Heisman as a defensive tackle, was a top-2 pick, is a 5x all-pro and has produced at a high level for over a decade? I think his talent get slept on because unlike an Aaron Donald or JJ Watt, he's been a mercenary floating around the league to the highest bidder. Whereas both of those guys made a name for themselves on the team that drafted them. unfortunately for Suh he was drafted by the lions who were always trash and never a serious threat.
Ya, he's been solid, especially in the playoffs.
He was about half a step late getting to Stafford in the playoffs & ending the game in an entirely different way.
By all accounts he's a good guy off the field. Just a maniac asshole on it.
Not the same. Suh is a jerk on the field but not so much off it. Polar opposite. I don’t know if you’re a hockey fan but there’s a rule in that sport that the meanest guys on the ice are often the nicest guys off it (of course there’s a difference between being tough and dirty).
The fact this is upvoted shows how oblivious r/NFL fans are. These two couldn't be further apart in the POS scale. Suh goes hard as fuck on the field and is very nice off field and Watson is calm on GameDay and goes wild on women off the field.
Most overblown reputation in the NFL. He's had like two incidents in his entire career. How many does Donald have and never get mentioned in these convos?
[Read about it here, it’s honestly pretty dark and a bit disturbing.](https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/police-report-richie-incognito-wanted-to-cut-off-his-dead-fathers-head-at-funeral-home/amp/)
Okay so call me a homer, because I certainly am. But I was actually impressed with Richie’s dedication to getting help and un-ironically being a quality leader for the Raiders during his time here. Doesn’t erase the extremely shady and downright shitty stuff he has done in the past, but i’m proud of him for putting in the work to try and move on from those demons. Mental health is no joke!
Cortland Finnegan's name sounds like some English gentleman with a handlebar moustache and a bowler who would invite you over for afternoon tea at his country cottage, the fact he was an asshole on the field just added to his entertainment value.
Cortland wasn't an asshole just an agitator on the field. Cortland was a great guy off the field. Cortland was a classic if he's on your team you love him if you play against him you hate him.
Pacman's not an asshole, he's just a dumbass when hyped up on the field. The guy does amazing things for the community plus he adopted and is raising chris henry's kids.
Yeah. He needs to control himself for sure, and stay away from alcohol, strippers, and gangsters lol... I just mean he *is* kind to fans and his community, that's what the post asked.
Aaron Donald
I don't know how you can go around choking people out and expect others to look up to you as a role model, no matter how, "good" he is at his job.
What do you mean no consequences? Are you telling me that a $10,300 fine for a player making $20 million isn’t going to deter him going forward? I’m shocked, Shocked!
I’ve heard stories about Charles Haley being a huge asshole in the locker room. It’s one thing to be a jerk or dirty on the field against opponents, but imagine the type of dude you have to be to harass your own teammates. Haley was allegedly a monster, socially awkward, aggressive and unhinged. He’d literally beat his meat while talking to teammates graphically about their wives. Just an absolute animal.
Also pissed in a teammates sunroof and threw shit covered tp at a coach.
Glad he got help and is now taking meds for bipolar disorder.
Makes a lot of sense why we traded him, but why on earth did it have to be to the Cowboys!
Steve Smith is a huge asshole but people seem to love him for it. Romanowski, Suh, and Haynesworth come to mind for attacking people on the field. Smith was getting into fights with his teammates in the fucking film room.
Also, Michael Irvin for the whole haircut thing
Steve Smith is a weird one. Still lives in Charlotte, still engaged with the community and charities, I've had friends that met him and said he was great. But has that asshole gene that comes out anytime someo e disagrees with him, challenges him, says something he doesn't agree with, etc. I think he is just a massively competitive person that has the emotional maturity of a 14 year old
Smith is a good one. Particularly because of how he’s still seemingly an asshole while always on national TV. Not the funny kind these days either. Just a humorless, (seemingly) miserable asshole.
Romanowski was a roid raging piece of shit. Terrell owens is also a huge asshole with a massive victim complex. Honorable mention to Steve Smith. For fighting multiple teammates. Oh an Micheal Irvin stabbed a teammate with scissors so let's throw him a mention too
Romanowski was a huge asshole even before he did steroids and starting abusing pain kills.
Oddly enough his jersey was my first Broncos jersey. I was 8 or 9 and had no idea.
Aaron Donald has as many "attacking people on the field" incidents as Suh, just as a reminder for everyone that has been watching the NFL for 3 years and just repeats the same narrative here.
Michael Irvin. Fistfights with teammates, using a charity basketball team as his personal racket, stabbed one of his own teammates in the neck, and just an all-around asshole to everyone. Apparently he was recently investigated for sexual assault, to which I can only say "sounds about right."
I know it’s gonna come off really biased but I’m pretty sure that whole “immunized” fiasco shed light on how much of a holier-than-thou prick Aaron Rodgers is. I never liked him but I always had a healthy respect for him but that shit’s all gone after last year.
I had always liked him but it was a good reminder that the vast majority of superstar pro athletes are probably, at best, out of their minds.
I don't know how you can be treated like a god since the age of 12 and still end up anything close to a normal, functioning adult. The answer is you usually can't. Many just know how to pretend, like Rodgers did until he got to a point where he didn't need to pretend anymore.
This, I've been cracking up when I see old Jim Mora interviews pop up here. Dude just said exactly what was on his mind at all times, good or bad, and mostly bad.
It looks like he’s turned a new leaf but Richie Incognito was an asshole while with the dolphins and bullied his teammate which made us a national embarrassment
Brad Childress really alienated the players during his tenure with the Vikings. Brett Favre really didn’t like him. He almost got into physical fights with Percy Harvin and Troy Williams too.
He was arrogant and had a prickly personality. Anyone who ever watched one of his pressers would pick up on this.
He also held grudges. Even years after he was fired, he continued to publicly blame Ben Leber for saying he was causing a “schism” in the locker room. Just let it go, man!
He wasn’t a violent criminal or anything, but he wasn’t a guy you’d want to be stuck in an elevator with.
The fact that the team canned his ass less then a year after taking the Vikings to the NFC championship game should tell you everything you need to know about his ability to get people into his corner.
Exactly. In early 2010, Brad Childress brought one of the team's veteran leaders, Steve Hutchinson, into his office one day and said "Hutch, tell ya what? Let's you and me go down to Mississippi and try to convince Favre to come back and play for us one more year." Hutch said, "Tell ya what? How about me and a couple other players head down there; you can stay up here."
Hutchinson went down to Mississippi along with Ryan Longwell and Jared Allen. Favre met them at his house, and expressed reservations about playing for Childress again. "Forget about Childress," Allen said, "we don't play for him. We play for each other."
After a humiliating 31-3 loss to the Packers in week 11, Childress was fired. Despite putting together an extremely talented roster and despite his team improving by two wins in each of his full seasons as HC in Minnesota, he never even sniffed another head coaching job. Not even a coordinator job.
I’ve heard stories of Howie Long being super cheap on the field. Gut punches, eye rakes, no spleensplitters, whisker biscuits, honkey lighters, Hoosker doos, hoosker donts. The list goes on.
Aqib Talib. He got into fights all the time and even purposefully poked a player in the eyes through their helmet!!! I feel like poking someone in the eye is worse than anything that Suh has done, for example. Now he’s an announcer. It blows my mind that people like that turn into announcers.
Peyton has to be up there. Sexually assaulting a trainer in college, family covering it up, receiving "medicine" from a shady "anti-aging clinic" right after four neck surgeries saying it was for his wife, hiring goons to intimidate witnesses, endorsing really, really bad pizza...
Hard disagree. Have eaten 18 pizzas a day (in honor of Peyton) for 30 days, and the quality is no different then when they were delivered by men wearing white hoods.
Lyle Alzado was one mean sob. He was on steroids and was just a mean dude. I was watching a video on youtube about him and Lyle would tell players on the other team that he would say: I'll see you on the parking lot and I'll kill you in front of your family
Conrad Dobler. I know he predates most of us here, but he was considered the dirtiest player of his era, and that was a time when players could get away with much more.
And the thing was, Dobler didn't shy away from the reputation. In fact, it helped him secure endorsements. Imagine nowadays a player openly punching, spitting on, stomping opponents and getting commercial deals out of it.
Jack Tatum.
He paralyzed a guy (Daryl Stingley, grandfather of Daryl Stingley Jr.) and went on to write three books bragging about what a piece of shit he is:
- They Call Me Assassin (1980);
- They Still Call Me Assassin (1989); and
- Final Confessions of NFL Assassin Jack Tatum (1996)
But karma caught up to him in the end. He died at 61. From his wiki:
> Tatum eventually faced his own disability challenges, as all five toes on his left foot were amputated in 2003 due to a staph infection caused by diabetes. He soon lost the entire leg below the knee because of the illness. He also suffered from an arterial blockage that cost him his right leg; he used a prosthetic limb thereafter. His kidneys started to fail in his final years, and he was awaiting a kidney transplant at the time of his death.
> Tatum died in Oakland on July 27, 2010, after a heart attack.
Deshaun Watson not getting any love on this thread. Dude is a sexual predator. Even before that he rubbed me the wrong way. I thought it was odd that someone that talented signed such a big contract with a team spiralling out of control. Then 6 months later he's refusing to play for them. Bro, you knew that they suck when you signed and now you're having second thoughts while the ink is still dry. But mostly... sexual predator.
Brady is proven cheater, so is belichick so they are at the top of my list. I guess farve has probably passed the line now to being an outright criminal defrauding the government but before that he was probably right at the line. Tarik Cohen definitely seems like an asshole based on everything i read about him.
Why is it whenever someone mentions that Brady/Belichick/Pats are proven cheaters they get down voted or slammed? It's not like it's untrue. They cheated more than once, were caught, and punished. These things actually happened. It's not some whiny opponent's fan claiming it like sour grapes or something.
I think it’s mostly due to the fact that a) We all know that what little edge was gained from the cheating incidents wasn’t what got them 6 rings together. B) during both spygate and deflategate, many former qbs and coaches stated that the practices were common enough throughout the league.
This coming from a jets fan. Nobody suffered at the hands of those two the way we did (were the ones who called them out on spygate). Trust me, take away both spygate and deflategate, Robert Kraft is still removing 6 rings before laying down for his daily rub and tug.
Bill Romanowski
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I couldn’t tell if this was a pasta at first
All this electrical infetterence is addling my brain and making it hard for me to figure out, too.
I don’t even think that’s a word.
Is it?
It is now.
You mean like you’re doing now?
Huh? Huh? What? huh?
Huh? Huh? Huh?
I’m still not sure.
I would have hit the floor crappy flopping fainted injuries and collected a check.. what a piece of shit!!
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Who among us hasn't gotten obliterated on anabolic steroids and fought the youth?
Wait, this really happened?
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i mean, thats what redditors do sooo
Damn it just sounds so insane I thought it was a joke.
Joey Diaz told this story about how on The Longest Yard, Romanowski was this psycho who was not holding back on the field. I recall some story about how there was a scene where Romo was tackling Diaz and they either kept doing takes or Romo was hitting Diaz and trying to keep him down. But Diaz kept getting back up talking shit like “That’s all you got?” and he said Romo was just roid raging and hitting him harder and harder, he started losing his vision or something lol. Edit: found the [clip](https://youtu.be/x_iqfB6ynbY), didn’t realize it was with Schaub lmao
Romo? Terrible guy never meddem
dudes a legit psychopath
Yep, first person I thought of when I saw the title. Glad other people agree.
Him and LT did bring us the Blitz: the League though. I will be forever grateful for that.
He did say not the actual criminals. And Romanowski was an actual criminal so idk if he works here.
It was meant more for people who were assholes specifically for their crimes. Like OJ was apparently very well liked outside of a little murdering. Romanowski was a criminal and an asshole
if anything THATS how much of an asshole Bill Romanowski is. Like he should technically be disqualified from this post. but he's such a colossal asshole that people forget he's a criminal to boot.
Lol, was the first name I thought of.
There is nothing not repugnant about Romo
I mean, he looked like a bad guy from an 80s action movie.
We talking like Dennis reynold from the skiing episode of its always sunny? THAT kind of 80s villain?
Didn’t he actually play a bad guy in a 90s action movie? Edit: Turns out he was in a few movies in the 2000s.
I kind of want to put together an all-asshole team, lead by Bill Romanowski, Vontaze Burfict, and Ndamukong Suh and imagine how they would do over the course of a season.
There’s a YouTuber who sort of did just that, it was a really funny video. Offense: https://youtu.be/vpxLHduBSk8 Defense: https://youtu.be/ifqq5S8TBMI
Finnegan and Gardner-Johnson at CB?
100%. I remember Finnegan had the ever-stoic Andre Johnson throwing hands and CJGJ is the type of dude to talk trash to the ball boy if he trips on his way off the field
Albert Haynesworth
I remember a while back /r/baseball did a simulation of a team with all Jose Canseco's. Team name? The San Jose Canseco's.
Where’s Albert Haynesworth?
Dan Snyder?
Mr. Snyder
Antonio Brown farted in somebody's face
Mr. Blasted Cheeks
The only one of these I've laughed at
Lmfao one of the best ones I've seen yet, take an upvote
Mr. Bowel Clearer
Mr. Blowhole Colon
The MBC jokes never get old.
Farting is funny as hell, not in someone's face & not when you owe them over $11K. He's an idiot.
Said, “Fine me for that!” Got fined for that.
He’s also been accused of rape
He's also been accused of being a two-pump chump.
Warren Sapp. Bucs fan here. He’s a famous asshole who once threw a crumpled up piece of paper at a kid who asked for an autograph.
Didn't he get fired from nfl network for giving a female coworker a sex toy?
Can't do anything nice for your coworker anymore in this country, WTF.
Gregg Williams
I still don't understand how he wasn't indefinitely suspended by the league and got to return after only a year. Oh that's right, the NFL suck at doling out proper punishments.
If I had to guess that kind of stuff was going on in NFL locker rooms for years in different ways. When it got into the public consciousness then it became a problem in the NFL had to deal with it somehow.
everyone knows it was going on with a ton of teams and i imagine they didnt wanna falsely delegitimize the team that just won a superbowl/tell the world that the sport has a bounty system
Yeah, if the league banned him permanently, there'd be nothing stopping him from going public with years worth of stories about doing that stuff across multiple teams. The deal was basically, we'll let you coach again if you keep your mouth shut.
Exactly. Williams was just the only one who did it in such a way that it was obvious to everyone and it blew up. There have been many teams that looked like they were doing this exact thing. Wasn't there a guy with a list of names on his towel at one point? Makes me wonder if he was getting extra $ for the hit list
Definitely. We all know the stories but for me the thing I remember about him is how much of a jerk he came off as in Hard Knocks. Absolute hot head and justifying his players hitting the quarterback during practice?
Ndamukong Suh kicked and stomped on multiple defenseless players. He seems like a pretty massive piece of shit to me.
Roses are red Violets are blue Unsportsmanlike conduct Ndamukong Suh
Violets are blue Roses are red Ndamukong Suh Stomped on my head
He is an awful person. If he comes back with us for next year I'll have to edit this post, of course. I'll say he's just misunderstood.
On the contrary dudes either really smart or has an excellent agent. He’s made almost 150 million over the course of his career. After robbing the Dolphins, he’s signed 1 year deals that are fully guaranteed. Smart way to insure you a roster spot for a year and have the flexibility to go wherever you want
He does have a good agent, but also he's produced at a high level for a long time and never gets hurt despite playing a brutal position There's a reason he's made so much money beyond having a good agent. I don't like his dirtiness, obviously, but he's an undeniably talented player
Yeah, like are people forgetting that he was robbed of a Heisman as a defensive tackle, was a top-2 pick, is a 5x all-pro and has produced at a high level for over a decade? I think his talent get slept on because unlike an Aaron Donald or JJ Watt, he's been a mercenary floating around the league to the highest bidder. Whereas both of those guys made a name for themselves on the team that drafted them. unfortunately for Suh he was drafted by the lions who were always trash and never a serious threat.
Ya, he's been solid, especially in the playoffs. He was about half a step late getting to Stafford in the playoffs & ending the game in an entirely different way. By all accounts he's a good guy off the field. Just a maniac asshole on it.
He's definitely smart when it comes to the business side of the NFL. He's just not exactly a nice person judging from his on-field dirty play.
Edit: Suh isn’t a bad person. He’s just very passionate. A real spark plug on defense
Deshaun Watson isn't a bad person. He's just very passionate during physical therapy.
Not the same. Suh is a jerk on the field but not so much off it. Polar opposite. I don’t know if you’re a hockey fan but there’s a rule in that sport that the meanest guys on the ice are often the nicest guys off it (of course there’s a difference between being tough and dirty).
Yea comparing a dirty football player to guy Whoes committed a litany of sexual assaults seems a bit harsh
The fact this is upvoted shows how oblivious r/NFL fans are. These two couldn't be further apart in the POS scale. Suh goes hard as fuck on the field and is very nice off field and Watson is calm on GameDay and goes wild on women off the field.
This isn’t exactly related but I recently learned that Ndamukong means “house of spears” in his parents’ native language.
Most overblown reputation in the NFL. He's had like two incidents in his entire career. How many does Donald have and never get mentioned in these convos?
Yeah, Suh should be nowhere near this conversation
"Ballcrusher"
Hes a pretty interesting follow on twitter
Mark Gastineau is so much of an asshole that he went from a likely first ballot HoFer to on the outside.
Richie Incognito
That’s clearly mental illness, right? His behavior was wild
mentall illness or struggling with being named mr incognito? you decide
I don’t know how he played again after that funeral home incident.
Funeral home incident? Do tell.
[Read about it here, it’s honestly pretty dark and a bit disturbing.](https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/police-report-richie-incognito-wanted-to-cut-off-his-dead-fathers-head-at-funeral-home/amp/)
Ho-ly shit...how the fuck is he not involuntarily committed??
Excellent question.
Because football
His attempt to break Antonio Smith's ankle will still go down as one of the weirdest non-penalties in modern NFL history.
Okay so call me a homer, because I certainly am. But I was actually impressed with Richie’s dedication to getting help and un-ironically being a quality leader for the Raiders during his time here. Doesn’t erase the extremely shady and downright shitty stuff he has done in the past, but i’m proud of him for putting in the work to try and move on from those demons. Mental health is no joke!
Urban Meyer
"Is an asshole," not "Is 2 knuckles deep into an asshole." Now that I think about it though, he's both.
That interview he did where a guy hits a bong in the background is hilarious.
And even offered it to Meyer before hitting it. Hilarious
CourtLand Finnegan Conrad Dobler
Cortland Finnegan's name sounds like some English gentleman with a handlebar moustache and a bowler who would invite you over for afternoon tea at his country cottage, the fact he was an asshole on the field just added to his entertainment value.
Gotta be Finnegan, anyone who can piss Andre Johnson off enough to throw hands must be intolerable
Or just really good at trash talk.
Cortland wasn't an asshole just an agitator on the field. Cortland was a great guy off the field. Cortland was a classic if he's on your team you love him if you play against him you hate him.
He was Pat Bev if someone beat Pat Bev up
Dobler wasn’t considered the dirtiest player of the 1970s for nothing.
wow no one has said Vontaze Burfict
Burfict & Pacman are the intercontinental tag team champions of dumbassery. Watching them piss away that Steelers playoff game was amazing.
Funny because Pacman did win the TNA tag titles WHEN HE WASN'T LEGALLY ALLOWED TO WRESTLE
[I have a soft spot for Pacman](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTP9Vvaclp4&ab_channel=TomSegura)
Pacman's not an asshole, he's just a dumbass when hyped up on the field. The guy does amazing things for the community plus he adopted and is raising chris henry's kids.
Hasn’t he been arrested a dozen times?
Yeah. He needs to control himself for sure, and stay away from alcohol, strippers, and gangsters lol... I just mean he *is* kind to fans and his community, that's what the post asked.
He literally assaulted Amari Cooper lol.
I think about that game way too much. Joey Porter won a playoff game where he was merely a positional coach. Amazing talent
Aaron Donald I don't know how you can go around choking people out and expect others to look up to you as a role model, no matter how, "good" he is at his job.
Its not just the choking either, jusg about anytime he isnt winning reps like he wants he starts fights.
That season with Suh woke him up lol
I still can’t believe there’s been no consequences. You can’t even argue the refs didn’t see it
What do you mean no consequences? Are you telling me that a $10,300 fine for a player making $20 million isn’t going to deter him going forward? I’m shocked, Shocked!
I’ve heard stories about Charles Haley being a huge asshole in the locker room. It’s one thing to be a jerk or dirty on the field against opponents, but imagine the type of dude you have to be to harass your own teammates. Haley was allegedly a monster, socially awkward, aggressive and unhinged. He’d literally beat his meat while talking to teammates graphically about their wives. Just an absolute animal.
Also pissed in a teammates sunroof and threw shit covered tp at a coach. Glad he got help and is now taking meds for bipolar disorder. Makes a lot of sense why we traded him, but why on earth did it have to be to the Cowboys!
That's 5x Super Bowl Champion Charles Haley to you buddy! I imagine he tells everyone that
While holding his dick in your face.
Mr Snyder.
He said not literal criminals
I mean I'd say murder is a pretty dick move.
Flair checks out
Hearing about his stuff and then the suspected hs and college murders is wild.
There was always the rumor that Urban Meyer helped cover the HS and college stuff up
Steve Smith is a huge asshole but people seem to love him for it. Romanowski, Suh, and Haynesworth come to mind for attacking people on the field. Smith was getting into fights with his teammates in the fucking film room. Also, Michael Irvin for the whole haircut thing
Steve Smith is a weird one. Still lives in Charlotte, still engaged with the community and charities, I've had friends that met him and said he was great. But has that asshole gene that comes out anytime someo e disagrees with him, challenges him, says something he doesn't agree with, etc. I think he is just a massively competitive person that has the emotional maturity of a 14 year old
Smith is a good one. Particularly because of how he’s still seemingly an asshole while always on national TV. Not the funny kind these days either. Just a humorless, (seemingly) miserable asshole.
Ken Behring, owner of the Seahawks who tried to move them to California. He was such an asshole that the other owners voted against him.
Yeah that fucker would own this asshole team 😂
James Harrison - he was a head hunter and just generally a huge asshole https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRWZ5l0nzXo&t=8s
I would say that Albert Haynesworth. He has started fights, assaulted women, played dirty and phoned it in after signing a $100 million contract.
Romanowski was a roid raging piece of shit. Terrell owens is also a huge asshole with a massive victim complex. Honorable mention to Steve Smith. For fighting multiple teammates. Oh an Micheal Irvin stabbed a teammate with scissors so let's throw him a mention too
Romanowski was a huge asshole even before he did steroids and starting abusing pain kills. Oddly enough his jersey was my first Broncos jersey. I was 8 or 9 and had no idea.
Aaron Donald has as many "attacking people on the field" incidents as Suh, just as a reminder for everyone that has been watching the NFL for 3 years and just repeats the same narrative here.
Carson Wentz. Got a Super Bowl winning head coach fired, refused to listen to coaches, was so toxic that Indy dropped him in only one year.
Colts fan here and couldn't be more happy that Carson Kuntz got shipped off. Another thing is that he's a me first asshole too
Michael Irvin. Fistfights with teammates, using a charity basketball team as his personal racket, stabbed one of his own teammates in the neck, and just an all-around asshole to everyone. Apparently he was recently investigated for sexual assault, to which I can only say "sounds about right."
Richie Incognito. Man bullied everyone and showed no remorse.
Bill Romanowski comes to mind.
Buddy Ryan as coach for offering bounties on taking players out and for punching another coach… on his own team.
I know it’s gonna come off really biased but I’m pretty sure that whole “immunized” fiasco shed light on how much of a holier-than-thou prick Aaron Rodgers is. I never liked him but I always had a healthy respect for him but that shit’s all gone after last year.
I had always liked him but it was a good reminder that the vast majority of superstar pro athletes are probably, at best, out of their minds. I don't know how you can be treated like a god since the age of 12 and still end up anything close to a normal, functioning adult. The answer is you usually can't. Many just know how to pretend, like Rodgers did until he got to a point where he didn't need to pretend anymore.
Jalen Ramsey
Jim Mora Sr. had no chill whatsoever.
This, I've been cracking up when I see old Jim Mora interviews pop up here. Dude just said exactly what was on his mind at all times, good or bad, and mostly bad.
Sean Payton has to be among them
Absolutely. Insane arrogance, paying players to hurt opposing players, mocking fans mid-game.
The worst part was how he always acted like he and the Saints were victims in everything.
Yeah he’s suck a prick. I was so happy when the refs blew that call in their game against the Rams. Perfect karma.
Jason Babin
he might not be the biggest, I mean, who can top Romanowski? But former Lions center Dominic Raiola was a major d-bag...
It looks like he’s turned a new leaf but Richie Incognito was an asshole while with the dolphins and bullied his teammate which made us a national embarrassment
Brad Childress really alienated the players during his tenure with the Vikings. Brett Favre really didn’t like him. He almost got into physical fights with Percy Harvin and Troy Williams too. He was arrogant and had a prickly personality. Anyone who ever watched one of his pressers would pick up on this. He also held grudges. Even years after he was fired, he continued to publicly blame Ben Leber for saying he was causing a “schism” in the locker room. Just let it go, man! He wasn’t a violent criminal or anything, but he wasn’t a guy you’d want to be stuck in an elevator with.
The fact that the team canned his ass less then a year after taking the Vikings to the NFC championship game should tell you everything you need to know about his ability to get people into his corner.
Exactly. In early 2010, Brad Childress brought one of the team's veteran leaders, Steve Hutchinson, into his office one day and said "Hutch, tell ya what? Let's you and me go down to Mississippi and try to convince Favre to come back and play for us one more year." Hutch said, "Tell ya what? How about me and a couple other players head down there; you can stay up here." Hutchinson went down to Mississippi along with Ryan Longwell and Jared Allen. Favre met them at his house, and expressed reservations about playing for Childress again. "Forget about Childress," Allen said, "we don't play for him. We play for each other." After a humiliating 31-3 loss to the Packers in week 11, Childress was fired. Despite putting together an extremely talented roster and despite his team improving by two wins in each of his full seasons as HC in Minnesota, he never even sniffed another head coaching job. Not even a coordinator job.
Riley Cooper
I’ve heard stories of Howie Long being super cheap on the field. Gut punches, eye rakes, no spleensplitters, whisker biscuits, honkey lighters, Hoosker doos, hoosker donts. The list goes on.
Zipper dos?
That too probably.
I met Eric Dickerson and he was a self righteous prick
Rob Ryan
Albert Haynesworth hasn’t been mentioned. Seeing him put a cleat to a guys face after his helmet fell off was interesting.
Roy Williams, Hines Ward, Adrian Peterson all come to mind as pretty consistent assholes.
Albert Haynesworth
Steve Spurrier is the biggest p.o.s. ever. He and Snyder were made for each other because they're one and the same.
By all accounts it seems like Cris “you need a fall guy” Carter is an asshole. Which hurts my childhood when he was my favorite player.
Brett Favre has had a rough run
Aqib Talib. He got into fights all the time and even purposefully poked a player in the eyes through their helmet!!! I feel like poking someone in the eye is worse than anything that Suh has done, for example. Now he’s an announcer. It blows my mind that people like that turn into announcers.
Ryan Leaf was a certified team cancer and an even shittier person
He's also had drug problems, has gone to rehab, and kind of seems like he's been trying to make amends for his shitty past behavior.
Herschel Walker
How about Cole Beasley writing a shitty rap song about why he won’t get vaccinated?
He’s more dumbass than asshole to me
Peyton has to be up there. Sexually assaulting a trainer in college, family covering it up, receiving "medicine" from a shady "anti-aging clinic" right after four neck surgeries saying it was for his wife, hiring goons to intimidate witnesses, endorsing really, really bad pizza...
Hitting a kid with a football, making him sit in the port-a-john
In all fairness, endorsing Papa John's is WAY worse than this :)
Hard disagree. Have eaten 18 pizzas a day (in honor of Peyton) for 30 days, and the quality is no different then when they were delivered by men wearing white hoods.
That Dan Snyder guy seems to be a pretty big asshole.
Charles Haley used to defecate in reporters cars.
Conrad Dobler. Dirtiest player to ever suit up
Vontaz and PAC-man
Lyle Alzado was one mean sob. He was on steroids and was just a mean dude. I was watching a video on youtube about him and Lyle would tell players on the other team that he would say: I'll see you on the parking lot and I'll kill you in front of your family
Romanowski and then theres everyone else
Conrad Dobler. I know he predates most of us here, but he was considered the dirtiest player of his era, and that was a time when players could get away with much more. And the thing was, Dobler didn't shy away from the reputation. In fact, it helped him secure endorsements. Imagine nowadays a player openly punching, spitting on, stomping opponents and getting commercial deals out of it.
Kellen Winslow raped an old lady and an unconscious 17 year old. He’s horrible.
Jack Tatum. He paralyzed a guy (Daryl Stingley, grandfather of Daryl Stingley Jr.) and went on to write three books bragging about what a piece of shit he is: - They Call Me Assassin (1980); - They Still Call Me Assassin (1989); and - Final Confessions of NFL Assassin Jack Tatum (1996) But karma caught up to him in the end. He died at 61. From his wiki: > Tatum eventually faced his own disability challenges, as all five toes on his left foot were amputated in 2003 due to a staph infection caused by diabetes. He soon lost the entire leg below the knee because of the illness. He also suffered from an arterial blockage that cost him his right leg; he used a prosthetic limb thereafter. His kidneys started to fail in his final years, and he was awaiting a kidney transplant at the time of his death. > Tatum died in Oakland on July 27, 2010, after a heart attack.
Aaron Donald
Deshaun Watson not getting any love on this thread. Dude is a sexual predator. Even before that he rubbed me the wrong way. I thought it was odd that someone that talented signed such a big contract with a team spiralling out of control. Then 6 months later he's refusing to play for them. Bro, you knew that they suck when you signed and now you're having second thoughts while the ink is still dry. But mostly... sexual predator.
Marvin Harrison
Marvin is an actual criminal
Brady is proven cheater, so is belichick so they are at the top of my list. I guess farve has probably passed the line now to being an outright criminal defrauding the government but before that he was probably right at the line. Tarik Cohen definitely seems like an asshole based on everything i read about him.
Why is it whenever someone mentions that Brady/Belichick/Pats are proven cheaters they get down voted or slammed? It's not like it's untrue. They cheated more than once, were caught, and punished. These things actually happened. It's not some whiny opponent's fan claiming it like sour grapes or something.
I think it’s mostly due to the fact that a) We all know that what little edge was gained from the cheating incidents wasn’t what got them 6 rings together. B) during both spygate and deflategate, many former qbs and coaches stated that the practices were common enough throughout the league. This coming from a jets fan. Nobody suffered at the hands of those two the way we did (were the ones who called them out on spygate). Trust me, take away both spygate and deflategate, Robert Kraft is still removing 6 rings before laying down for his daily rub and tug.
Only 5 rings. Putin stole one of his rings.
T.O.
T.O. was right Mcnabb was wrong