* The Big 12 conference and the Universities of Texas and Oklahoma. The favoritism of those three schools (the former two for having lots of money and strong football programs, the last for their basketball program and the former Big 8 headquarters being in Kansas City) has more or less (combined with front office instability) led to the near-collapse of the conference and four schools leaving. The conference defending Kansas' {{Jerkass}} attitude over the University of Missouri leaving (who had good reasons, such as the athletic department losing money due to the loss of football rivals Nebraska and Colorado) and the formation of The Longhorn Network (which is considered nothing more than a recruitment tool for Texas) only makes things worse.
** It should be noted that most of the other big conferences had the same Pet attitude toward Texas and Oklahoma, as evidenced by the Pac-10's attempted recruitment of both schools AND their willingness to take any other schools they wanted to bring with them (Texas Tech and Oklahoma State). Not so with Kansas, as, had the Big 12 broken up, they would have been one of the remaining Big 12 schools with no conference despite the aforementioned highly successful basketball program, which could ''possibly'' justify their aforementioned attitude (Missouri's departure meant the end of Kansas' longest standing rivalry in basketball). In fact, the game of college football could be looked at as the Pet of the NCAA and universities as a whole given how it has solely driven the massive conference realignments in the past few years and how all the other sports programs must bend over backwards to accompany them (college football's huge popularity with US sports fans is the only thing keeping it from being a true Pet).

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* A similar case to MLB on {{ESPN}}, people from Western Canada hate {{CBC}}'s ''HockeyNightInCanada'', and it's preference for the UsefulNotes/{{Toronto}} Maple Leafs, UsefulNotes/{{Montreal}} Canadiens, and when the two aren't on, the Ottawa Senators. A example of this was giving up a Saturday afternoon game, which was a rematch of the UsefulNotes/{{Vancouver}} Canucks and the Boston Bruins. Would CBC air the anticipated game? [[WhatAnIdiot Nope.]] They aired a game between Toronto and UsefulNotes/{{Washington|DC}} instead, or something.
-->[[http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1027470/2/index.htm "I remember watching the first three or four games of the Leafs-Kings semifinals on TV in New York in 1993. (…) I had no preference. Then I went home to Winnipeg and caught the end of the series and was blown away by the biased coverage. Hockey Night wanted Toronto to win so badly, I instantly became the world's biggest Kings fan."]]
** The 2011-2012 season has seen a (one expects temporary) addition to this: HNIC wanted the Leafs, Habs, and ''Jets'' to win.
*** You can't entirely blame them for that; the current incarnation of the Jets moved from UsefulNotes/{{Atlanta}} and, by all accounts, have been treated much better in Manitoba than they ever were in Georgia.
* In the NBA, the Miami Heat is surprisingly popular with the media while earning a BigBad status from viewers for being too strong for its own good.
* In Brazil, Corinthians, the most popular soccer team of [[UsefulNotes/SaoPaulo their biggest city]] earns quite a {{Hatedom}} for being heavily favoured by the football confederation (they earn the biggest payments for TV rights, at times triple the value of some teams!) and the media (particularly during their 2012 CopaLibertadores and FIFA Clubs World Cup run in 2012, where every news program was saturated with Corinthians news).

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* At DisneyThemeParks, we have Duffy, the Disney Bear. Ostensibly Mickey's favorite teddy bear brought to life, the Disney Bear originated at the TurnOfTheMillennium as merchandise at the Florida Disney World complex. When the bears were exported to Tokyo Disneyland, they were a massive hit to the point of Duffy getting his own live show, so Disney decided to relaunch him at the U.S. parks in 2010. However, he was generally met with a response of "Who the [[SoundEffectBleep f***]] is Duffy?" owing to the character not appearing anywhere beyond the parks. It gets worse, though; he evidently sold well enough (or the executives wanted to push him enough) that he became a meet-and-greet character, and Duffy cut-outs replaced the Kidcot masks at Epcot. Hell, his meet-and-greets have lasted longer than [[EnsembleDarkhorse Ensemble Darkhorses]] who are ''actually from the DisneyAnimatedCanon'', like [[Disney/{{Tangled}} Flynn Rider]] and [[Disney/ThePrincessAndTheFrog Prince Naveen, Louis and Dr. Facilier]], or long-gone characters such as [[Disney/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame Quasimodo, Phoebus and Esmeralda]], [[Disney/{{Hercules}} Hercules and Megara]], and [[Disney/{{Tarzan}} Tarzan and Jane]].

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* At DisneyThemeParks, we have Duffy, the Disney Bear. Ostensibly Mickey's favorite teddy bear brought to life, the Disney Bear originated at the TurnOfTheMillennium as merchandise at the Florida Disney World complex. When the bears were exported to Tokyo Disneyland, they were a massive hit to the point of Duffy getting his own live show, so Disney decided to relaunch him at the U.S. parks in 2010. However, he was generally met with a response of "Who the [[SoundEffectBleep f***]] is Duffy?" owing to the character not appearing anywhere beyond the parks. It gets worse, though; he evidently sold well enough (or the executives wanted to push him enough) that he became a meet-and-greet character, and Duffy cut-outs replaced the Kidcot masks at Epcot. His meet-and-greets have lasted longer than [[EnsembleDarkhorse Ensemble Darkhorses]] who are ''actually from the DisneyAnimatedCanon'', like [[Disney/{{Tangled}} Flynn Rider]] and [[Disney/ThePrincessAndTheFrog Prince Naveen, Louis and Dr. Facilier]], or long-gone characters such as [[Disney/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame Quasimodo, Phoebus and Esmeralda]], [[Disney/{{Hercules}} Hercules and Megara]], and [[Disney/{{Tarzan}} Tarzan and Jane]].

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* One year, FOX's coverage of {{NASCAR}} races added a 'Digger Cam'- a ground-level camera in the infield that showed cars coming around a turn. The 'digger' part came from an animated gopher named Digger, who would pop up out of a hole, look behind him, notice the cars, scream, and then frantically get back into his hole. It was kind of funny the first time. After that it became progressively less funny. Then they did it repeatedly, every single race. This was the signal for FOX to render Digger in CGI, give him his own pre-race cartoon, and offer Digger merchandise. The response has escalated to three words: kill the rodent.
** Digger was so beloved by FOX, they gave him a speaking cameo in the Film/AlvinAndTheChipmunks "Squeakquel", which was hated in its own right. Cue people storming out of the theatre in rage.
* Most Major League Baseball fans tend to hate {{ESPN}} because they seem to focus only on 5 large market (Yankees, Red Sox, Phillies, Cubs, and Dodgers) They will occasionally pick up on a winning team but many MLB fans (and former ESPN baseball analysts) have flocked to MLB Network because they air games with every team. In addition on their recaps ESPN will show seemingly every play of the above teams games and one highlights from all of the other games
* The Big 12 conference and the Universities of Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas. The favoritism of those three schools (the former two for having lots of money and strong football programs, the last for their basketball program and the former Big 8 headquarters being in Kansas City) has more or less (combined with front office instability) led to the near-collapse of the conference and four schools leaving. The conference defending Kansas's {{Jerkass}} attitude over the University of Missouri leaving (who had good reasons, such as the athletic department losing money due to the loss of football rivals Nebraska and Colorado) and the formation of The Longhorn Network (which is considered nothing more than a recruitment tool for Texas) only makes things worse.
* A similar case to MLB on {{ESPN}}, people from Western Canada hate {{CBC}}'s ''HockeyNightInCanada'', and it's preference for the Toronto Maple Leafs, Montreal Canadiens, and when the two aren't on, the Ottawa Senators. A example of this was giving up a Saturday afternoon game, which was a rematch of the Vancouver Canucks and the Boston Bruins. Would CBC air the anticipated game, [[WhatAnIdiot Nope.]] They aired a game instead between Toronto and Washington, or something.
-->[[http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1027470/2/index.htm "I remember watching the first three or four games of the Leafs-Kings semifinals on TV in New York in 1993. (...) I had no preference. Then I went home to Winnipeg and caught the end of the series and was blown away by the biased coverage. Hockey Night wanted Toronto to win so badly, I instantly became the world's biggest Kings fan."]]
** The 2011-2012 season has seen a (one expects temporary) addition to this: HNIC wanted the Leafs, Habs, and ''Jets'' to win.

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* One year, FOX's coverage of {{NASCAR}} races added a 'Digger Cam'--a ground-level camera in the infield that showed cars coming around a turn. The 'digger' part came from an animated gopher named Digger, who would pop up out of a hole, look behind him, notice the cars, scream, and then frantically get back into his hole. It was kind of funny the first time. After that it became progressively less funny. Then they did it repeatedly, every single race. This was the signal for FOX to render Digger in CGI, give him his own pre-race cartoon, and offer Digger merchandise. The response has escalated to three words: kill the rodent.
** Digger was so beloved by FOX, they gave him a speaking cameo in the Film/AlvinAndTheChipmunks "Squeakquel", which was hated in its own right. Cue people storming out of the theater in rage.
* Most Major League Baseball fans tend to hate {{ESPN}} because they seem to focus only on five large markets ([[UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity Yankees]], [[UsefulNotes/{{Boston}} Red Sox]], [[UsefulNotes/{{Philadelphia}} Phillies]], [[UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}} Cubs]], and [[UsefulNotes/LosAngeles Dodgers]]). They will occasionally pick up on a winning team but many MLB fans (and former ESPN baseball analysts) have flocked to MLB Network because they air games with every team. In addition on their recaps ESPN will show seemingly every play of the above teams games and one highlights from all of the other games.
* The Big 12 conference and the Universities of Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas. The favoritism of those three schools (the former two for having lots of money and strong football programs, the last for their basketball program and the former Big 8 headquarters being in Kansas City) has more or less (combined with front office instability) led to the near-collapse of the conference and four schools leaving. The conference defending Kansas' {{Jerkass}} attitude over the University of Missouri leaving (who had good reasons, such as the athletic department losing money due to the loss of football rivals Nebraska and Colorado) and the formation of The Longhorn Network (which is considered nothing more than a recruitment tool for Texas) only makes things worse.
* A similar case to MLB on {{ESPN}}, people from Western Canada hate {{CBC}}'s ''HockeyNightInCanada'', and it's preference for the UsefulNotes/{{Toronto}} Maple Leafs, UsefulNotes/{{Montreal}} Canadiens, and when the two aren't on, the Ottawa Senators. A example of this was giving up a Saturday afternoon game, which was a rematch of the UsefulNotes/{{Vancouver}} Canucks and the Boston Bruins. Would CBC air the anticipated game? [[WhatAnIdiot Nope.]] They aired a game between Toronto and UsefulNotes/{{Washington|DC}} instead, or something.
-->[[http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1027470/2/index.htm "I remember watching the first three or four games of the Leafs-Kings semifinals on TV in New York in 1993. (…) I had no preference. Then I went home to Winnipeg and caught the end of the series and was blown away by the biased coverage. Hockey Night wanted Toronto to win so badly, I instantly became the world's biggest Kings fan."]]
** The 2011-2012 season has seen a (one expects temporary) addition to this: HNIC wanted the Leafs, Habs, and ''Jets'' to win.
*** You can't entirely blame them for that; the current incarnation of the Jets moved from UsefulNotes/{{Atlanta}} and, by all accounts, have been treated much better in Manitoba than they ever were in Georgia.

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