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NFL’s most hated player? Falcons’ Jacob Tamme goes all in to win Twitter poll
- Updated: May 24, 2016
9:39 AM ET
FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. — The scrapbooks Jacob Tamme’s wife have put together for him throughout the years will soon have a new item: a SiriusXMNFL radio list citing him as the NFL player fans loves to hate the most.
The mild-mannered Tamme got a chuckle after beating out Tom Brady, Cam Newton and Richard Sherman with 40 percent of the vote. Tamme really engaged the fans to win enough votes. The final results were published here:
The Players you love to hate list was published – @alexmarvez and @TomPelissero want to know ‘who you love to hate’
— SiriusXM NFL Radio (@SiriusXMNFL) May 21, 2016
“I just happened to cross it and saw my name on it and said, ‘This is interesting,'” Tamme said. “And I said to myself, ‘I might as well win this thing.'”
Tamme found out a fan called in and wasn’t happy that he caught some of Dallas Clark’s touchdowns when the two played together in Indianapolis and Clark got hurt.
“At that point, we just had fun with it,” Tamme said about discovering the list by chance. “Since I was on it, I thought it would be neat to beat somebody. I kind of singled out Sherman because he …
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