They mean it in a bad way, but that will never stop 'Canes fans from wearing it as a badge of honor: Sports Illustrated has named the '86 Miami squad as the all-time most hated team in sports.

And that was before Michael Irvin had scissors. In other words: we're staying number one forever! (Woosh, woosh!)

We're also number 11, courtesy the fake six-shootering 'Canes who completely disemboweled Texas in the Cotton Bowl, blamed their showboating on the architects who built it, and managed to change football as we know it by gyrating the so-called "Miami Rules" into existence.

But it is the '86-ers who are so universally reviled, with their fatigues and their rap sheet and their overwhelming confidence, they're still being punished by the inclusion of Rick Reilly's writing in the paragraph explaining why.

His players were visionaries, early practitioners of an in-your-face brand of football that went out of its way to belittle and intimidate opponents. It was, in a lot of ways, the opposite of sportsmanship. It was a 'Cane thing. To say that Jimmy Johnson gave his players free reign was an understatement.

The '86 Hurricanes were caught up in "fights and fraud and alleged shoplifting and other unsavory shenanigans involving more than 40 players," wrote SI's Rick Reilly. "Miami may be the only squad in America that has its team picture taken from the front and from the side." It was also flat-out loaded, an NFL developmental squad, and not inclined toward modesty.

The top-ranked 'Canes showed up in Tempe, Ariz., for the national title game rocking military fatigues, in stark contrast to the coats and ties sported by the charges of "St. Joe" Paterno, as Johnson dubbed his counterpart.

In that famed Fiesta Bowl game, Heisman Trophy winner Vinny Testaverde threw five picks and Miami turned the ball over seven times in a 14-10 Penn State upset that made a lot of people across the republic very, very happy.

Of course, in classic old-school 'Canes fashion, they still have a leg up on the haters. No one dislikes that team more than they hate themselves for that infamous Fiesta Bowl game, which leaves them atop another list -- that of the greatest teams of all time to fail to win a championship.

The rest of the top 25, with its Yankees and Pats and Pistons and Knicks, isn't that surprising. The new-look Miami Heat came in last, which seems low even for a team that has yet to play a game.

But the real kicker is this: with the '92 Dallas Cowboys, Jimmy Johnson presided over two of the top three most hated teams of all time, meaning this upcoming season of Survivor could be amaaaaazing -- and if it features Johnson leading a band of brash, trash-talking miscreants only their fans could love once more onto the beach, only to have Vinny Testaverde make a super-traitorous guest appearance, well, those of you who weren't around for that '86 season will finally understand.