Top 10 Most Selfish Players in Sports
Brett Favre is retiring. At least that's the story for the time being.
Lord knows Favre has pulled the "will he or won't he" card with football more than Ross and Rachel. However, the older he gets, the more plausible each retirement seems. So this could be it.
If he truly is done, it puts Brett in a whole new light. Nobody would have faulted him for retiring after the Packers or the Jets, but he did sign a two-year deal with the Vikings and pretty much left them out to dry by retiring now.
That's pretty selfish, but where does Favre rank amongst the most selfish athletes of all time?
No. 10: Floyd Mayweather Jr.
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I can't decide if this is selfishness or cowardice exactly, but Mayweather seems like he deserves to be on this list regardless.
The world wants to see him fight Manny Pacquiao. Hell, even people who don't care about boxing anymore want him to fight Pacquiao. That fight could singlehandedly save boxing as we know it.
Does that change the fact that Mayweather Jr. is content to just sit there and hang on to his belt? Not in the slightest.
Selfish jerk.
No. 9: Keyshawn Johnson
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When the name of your autobiography is "Just Give Me The Damn Ball," I have trouble believing you were a great sharer as a child. There's a reason his nickname was Me-Shawn.
There's a difference between wanting the ball so you can help your team win the game and wanting the ball on every possession. Eventually you need to realize that one player can't win a football game. It's a team effort.
Keyshawn never really got that memo.
No. 8: Alex Rodriguez
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Look, I get it. Athletes are just like us. They want to make money. Would we ever turn down a much higher paying job? I don't think so.
Still, there's something so slimy about A-Rod's $252 million contract. He knew that, by signing it, he was killing any chance his team had of winning in the long run, because they couldn't afford any other good players after that.
My grandpa climbed telephone towers for a living. He told me that once you get past 150 ft. it all looks the same. Can't the same be said about money? Once you get past $150 million, do you really need another $100 million? You can't live off $150 millon for the rest of your life?
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No. 7: Randy Moss
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Oh look, another WR diva!
It's no surprise that we have a few different wide receivers on this list. You kind of have to be selfish to play this position.
However, players like Moss take it a bit too far. When Moss starts walking off the field when his team still has a chance to win, it doesn't really show somebody who is truly a team player.
Moss wanted the ball, he wanted his stats, and he wanted to get paid. Winning was never really part of the equation.
No. 6: Kobe Bryant
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At the risk of pissing off legions of Lakers fans, I've got to add Kobe Bryant to this list.
Sure, he came around recently, but you just cannot ignore the years he spent alienating teammates (including Shaq in his prime) and shooting his teams out of the playoffs.
Strangely enough, his most selfish moment came during a playoff game when he refused to shoot. Losing to the Suns in Game Seven, Kobe wanted to show just how much the team needed him and didn't take a shot the entire second half en route to a blowout.
Wow, tanking a playoff game to make a point? That's not selfish at all.
No. 5: Tiger Woods
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One smoking hot Swedish supermodel would be enough for most people.
You just had to get selfish, didn't you Tiger?
No. 4: Terrell Owens
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T.O. loves him some T.O.
It's hard to find an athlete more in love with himself than Terrell Owens, and that's saying a lot.
Whether it was trashing his teammates and coaches, hurting his team's chances at winning because he needed so many touches, or doing sit-ups in his driveway during a media circus when he demanded to be traded, T.O. never really seemed to care about anyone other than himself.
At least he's got his own reality show. Nothing says team player like your own reality show. Just ask our next athlete.
No. 3: Barry Bonds
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There's that famous Barry Bonds smile.
What's the opposite of selfish? Caring about others, right? Can you say with a straight face that Bonds ever cared about anyone other than himself?
I didn't think so.
He never got along with seemingly anyone, ever in life. Oh, and there was that whole steroids thing. Something tells me he wasn't really thinking of anyone else when he shot himself up to crush a beloved record held by a beloved athlete.
No. 2: Brett Favre
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Wave goodbye, Brett.
So what if he's 40? Favre signed a two-year deal with the Vikings. He played well last year. It's not like his skills are so declined that he had to hang them up.
He had one year in Minnesota. You need another year to jell with your teammates. The Vikings were counting on him. If they knew ahead of time that he was leaving they could have tried to go out and get another quarterback.
Now they are left hanging, all because Favre isn't honoring a commitment he made a year ago. Make no mistake, Favre is one of the most selfish athletes out there.
No. 1: LeBron James
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Let's see here. You could stay in Cleveland and help lift up a city that not only has embraced you and worshiped you your entire career, but actually needs you to help support their floundering economy. Or you could rip out their hearts in a pointless hour-long special where you ultimately decide to go play with your buddies in South Beach.
LeBron's "decision" was about nobody but himself. It's not like he made it for financial reasons either. He just wanted to have fun and didn't even care to think about the repercussions his decision would have.
The destruction he left in Cleveland and the apparent lack of remorse puts LeBron squarely at No. 1 on our list.
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