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Foulest 40 villains of them all

By Pat Forde
ESPN.com

Sunday, August 16, 2009

"From hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee." -- Captain Ahab, addressing the white whale, in "Moby-Dick" Herman Melville wrote those words for Ahab in 1851. To my ear, the crazy captain simply sounded like a college football fan born too early. Ahab's vitriol might be more eloquent than the average fan's, but the intensity matches what comes from the spleens of a million men, women and children every autumn weekend. And it's been that way for a long ...

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