Better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you're not? Does that count?
(I don't necessarily think this, it was the first one that popped into my head. I have beer now.)

Alt: Rugby, because it breeds rugby lads and I HATE RUGBY LADS.

EDIT FOR CLARITY: When I say 'rugby lads', I mean 'lads who play rugby as part of an amateur team'.
(BelladonnaAnodyne Melissa's gonna wet herself, I swear..., Mon 21 Mar 2011, 14:50, 4 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

What is it with the whole collar up thing on the rugby shirts?

( girlinthehole, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 14:51, Reply)

hides the suckies

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 14:52, Reply)

Ah! makes sense.

( girlinthehole, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 14:53, Reply)

Or maybe they are just all twats
I dunno
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 14:53, Reply)

I have several hypotheses.
However, going by Occam's Razor, it's because they're massive belming fucktards.
(BelladonnaAnodyne Melissa's gonna wet herself, I swear..., Mon 21 Mar 2011, 14:54, Reply)

Pop ya collar, homez!

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 14:55, Reply)

Agreed,
Any sport where you have to tape your ears to your head in case they fall off gets a big thumbs-down from me.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Mon 21 Mar 2011, 14:54, Reply)

I quite like the homo-erotic tones of the sport.
Nice to see large men getting all grabby with each other.
( girlinthehole, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 14:55, Reply)

I think the eye gouging is a nice gentle touch

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 14:57, Reply)

Rugby players are ALWAYS dressing up as women,

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 14:58, Reply)

I think that we've come to the crux of the matter here
You're not anti the government, nor anti cuts you're just a bit of a reverse snob.

FYI - You'll find many, many rugby players who have never been near a public school or anything of the ilk in their lives.
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 14:55, Reply)

It's nothing to do with public school
I work down the road from a rugby club, I work with lads who play rugby. Their sole aims in life are to demean women, beat each other up and trick each other into ingesting body fluids.

Fucking lovely of you to assume that I wasn't speaking from experience, by the way. I've been punched by enough of the thick bastards when splitting up fights to be justified in hating them, I think.
(BelladonnaAnodyne Melissa's gonna wet herself, I swear..., Mon 21 Mar 2011, 14:59, Reply)

.. which is approxiately 1047% better
than demeaning women and beating other people up, which is the preserve of a fair proportion of the football watching community.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 15:00, Reply)

One sample of 15, does not show a trend for the entire rugby playing/watching population
this is like saying all footballers are rapists*

*which they are
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 15:01, Reply)

Loads of the fuckers are Welsh, FFS

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 15:01, Reply)

If you've ever attended university or worked in a pub
you will have a negative image of rugby lads.
I have three cousins, all of whom are rugby players (one for a professional team) and they're gentlemen, but the mention of rugby players on a night out or a pub shift, or a trip to the students' union still makes me shudder. Just in case.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 15:03, Reply)

I went to a Welsh university that had a strong English contingent.
The last year I was there, England beat Wales quite significantly during the then 5 Nations.

People got thrown through windows Wild West style. There's quite a lot more blood when it's actual plate glass.
( Kroney, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 15:04, Reply)

They're horriffic boors.
Ghastly.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 15:05, Reply)

I'll take rugby lads over football hooligans any day of the fucking week.
At least rugby lads are essentially harmless.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 14:56, Reply)

In my exprience, with a few pints down them, they act the same.
Actually no, I've seen more violence related to football, and more pissing on pub tables related to rugby.
So they're all capable of cuntery - just different types.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 15:00, Reply)

Well, my experience differs, but that's fair enough
but I would suggest that in general, rugby fans tend to keep their cuntery between themselves (and, granted, some unfortunate bar staff, but that's a "pissed arsehole" thing that's hardly limited to rugby fans) whereas football cuntery encompasses anyone unfortunate enough to be in the same postcode.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 15:03, Reply)

Yeah, the rugby lads smashing pint glasses all over the campus on Friday were keeping it to themselves
and their t-shirts saying "smashing pussies" were keeping it to themselves.
Why you think they're any different from football wankers is bizarre. Manners are manners. bar staff deserve not to be wading in piss or blood just as much as some granny getting her shopping.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 15:07, Reply)

Short answer
hang around twickenham after an international, 80,000 people all getting on and making their way home.

Hang around Fulham Broadway after a Chelsea game and you better get ready for a whole world of shit, and there are half as many of them.
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 15:09, Reply)

Short answer
You haven't seen what I've seen and I haven't seen what you've seen.
But I feel affinity with neither rugby fellas or football fellas (and maybe we're getting confused over spectators and participants as well) but I'm judging objectively.
They are all tits when they're in a group and pissed up.
Or maybe you think pissing all over a pub table is mere japery, but punching your mate in the face is a step beyond.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 15:13, Reply)

no, they are all cuntish behaviour
but in a list of "most cuntish" pissing on a table or punching your mate are all well, well below punching a random member of the public. That was the disction I was getting at.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 15:16, Reply)

Fair enough, I suppose i was aiming more at supporters
Rugby players, particularly students can be pretty ferral when they're drunk that is very true.
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 15:25, Reply)

well, the problem you've got there is that they are students and rugby players
first and foremost. And therefore have a mental age of 3. Most rugby players do not behave like that in public.

And they are different from football fans because, in general, they do not start fights with either opposition fans or members of the public because rugby doesn't have the ingrained life or death tribal alliances that football has.

And I didn't say it wasn't bad manners, just that drunken behaviour of that sort is hardly the preserve of rubgy players. I was merely pointing out that a load of drunken cunts vomiting everywhere is a fuck sight less of a problem for me than a load of psychotic cunts punching and stabbing random members of the public because "they look like they support X team"
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 15:13, Reply)

Football fans, in general, don't do that either. And I'm sure all rugby players dont piss all over the pub.
But I don't think any one group is 'better' behaved.
In my experience, I have witnessed both groups being wankers. I live somewhere that has two football teams, and it's not divided geographically or by religion, so that kind of thing doesn't happen where I live, but I know it does elsewhere. I just think anyone's capable of being wankers especially when they're buoyed up by booze and their sport. I wouldn't defend either group, even though the majority are just normal people with a season ticket and a scarf.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 15:22, Reply)

I've spent a fair amount of time living in East and South London
and now Edinburgh, and spent plenty of time in South Wales . I can categorically state that football fans do, in general, absolutely do that. All the time. Being caught in the middle of a a few hundred Cardiff and Swansea fans going at it is not an experience that I wish to repeat. Or being anywhere near Millwall. Or being on a train in Southern Germany when 1860 fans stormed it to get at Bayern fans. Or running battles in Rome after a Roma/Lazio game. Or anywhere I've been in Eastern Europe, really.

So, yeah, I agree that I won't condone either but in my experience football generates a whole heap higher level of cunt. I know your experince differs of course, I'm just saying why my feelings about it are so strong.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 15:42, Reply)

The footy lads that come in my pub are lovely.
One or two pints after the match, then it's home. Rugby lads come in after a match and 10 hours later you're cleaning up vomit and trying to stop them 'grabbing' you.
(BelladonnaAnodyne Melissa's gonna wet herself, I swear..., Mon 21 Mar 2011, 15:04, Reply)

You could stay at home and "roll around on the floor" instead

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 15:05, Reply)

Right, I obviously arrived too late for this meme and now I'm confused
Please explain
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 15:11, Reply)

wait a moment
here you go b3ta.com/questions/offtopic/post1128171
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 15:13, Reply)

love it

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 15:15, Reply)

it did make me laugh
more for the bizarre image than anything else
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 15:16, Reply)

I still don't understand what hte actual joke is supposed to be
but then I have been a bit of a mental midget today.
( Kroney, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 15:22, Reply)

I just liked the idea of someone rolling around on the floor
like an itchy dog
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 15:23, Reply)

I stand corrected
That is HILARIOUS. Exactly the standard one expects from Rory
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 15:28, Reply)

MY ALARM SOUNDED

( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 15:29, Reply)

The putdown alarm

( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 15:31, Reply)

You got it sister

( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 15:33, Reply)

Nonsense
I said it was hilarious
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 15:36, Reply)

If it makes you feel better
it made me laugh. Or do you need other validation?
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 15:36, Reply)

No, I've had my internet attention for the day
Beggars can't be choosers
( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 15:48, Reply)

Riiiiiiight...
Where's Chompy when you need him? For once I actually require an explanation as to why this is funny
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 15:22, Reply)

THATS TH....

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 15:23, Reply)