Often debated, never categorized like this before! Over 700 votes between our Diehards & our staff to put pen to paper and determine who was the most HATED rival in Philadelphia sports history!

Drum roll, please….

Your most HATED rival in Philadelphia sports history is!

Sid the Kid! Don’t think any Philly sports fan will deny this one deserves the top spot. Crosby always hears it when he comes to town. And let’s face it, you can’t be the most hated without being a great player to back it up. We hate our rivals’ greatness; it’s one of our best qualities!

Scott Stevens will forever be hated in this town for effectively ending Eric Lindros’ tenure with the Flyers, with the check heard ’round the world. He was much hated before that hit that led to a Lindros concussion, but that was certainly the cherry on top of the Stevens sundae.

Jamie Lynch note: I voted Joe Carter 1 overall, well, because he ruined my childhood. The 1993 Phillies were one of the most distinct memories of my lifetime. I’ll never forgive Joe Carter (*and Jim Fergosi) for that moment. It’s etched in my sports mind as one of life’s clearest memories. Damn you, Joe Carter! Glad to see others agree with me & my heartbreak led to “sports hatred”. By all accounts, Joe Carter is a lovely & nice man, but he ripped 12-year-old Jamie’s heart out of his chest. I’ll never get over it.

J.D. Drew’s hatred is an interesting one to examine. Philadelphia sports fans should probably be more upset with a bad & cheap ownership group at the time than they should be with J.D., but don’t tell Philly fans that you don’t want to play here; you’ll be forever hated. A layup choice for Philly fans.

Ben Simmons holds no resentment towards the Philadelphia sports fans, but they sure as hell hold resentment towards him still coming down with the #5 spot! Probably could’ve predicted this one. Sixers fans will never get over him passing up a wide-open dunk in the Hawks series. One of the ultimate “what could have beens” in Sixers history.

Let us know what we got wrong or who we missed in the comments below! And checking out the voting results of how it transpired…

Methodology and quality controls

• Rankings used a 5–1 point system: five points for first place through one point for fifth place.
• Spelling, capitalization, obvious shorthand, and name variants were normalized before scoring.
• Team, color, era, alternate, and home/away uniform descriptions were consolidated into consistent market-specific labels.
• When the same final answer appeared more than once within one ranked question, it counted once at its highest placement; lower repeats were discarded.
• In a published uniform Top 5, a general team-only bucket was omitted when a specific uniform for that same team was also listed. If a general bucket stood alone, it displayed as the team name without “Unspecified.”
• Tied point totals share the same numerical rank. Display order then uses first-place votes, ballot mentions, and alphabetical order.
• ALLCITY point totals reconcile exactly to the sum of the five markets, with zero formula errors in the final workbook.

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