Nick Saban hasn't endeared himself to his former fan bases.

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In honor of the latest controversy surrounding Brett Favre, here's our list of the five biggest traitors in sports.

1. Nick Saban: We all know that sports figures, and public figures for that matter, are capable of denying the truth at any given time. But none did it quite as brazenly as then-Dolphins coach Saban before jumping to a multi-million dollar offer at 'Bama, after five weeks of repeated denials. "I guess I have to say it. I'm not going to be the Alabama coach. ... I don't control what people say. I don't control what people put on dot-com or anything else. So I'm just telling you there's no significance, in my opinion, about this, about me, about any interest that I have in anything other than being the coach here," he said on Dec. 21, 2006. Less than three weeks later, came this statement: "What I realized in the last two years is that we love college coaching because of the ability that it gives you to affect people, young people. ... If I knew that my heart was someplace else in what I wanted to do, I don't think it would be fair to the [Dolphins] organization if I stayed."  Thus proving, Nick Saban's heart = his wallet.

2. Bobby Petrino: When the going got tough, this former Atlanta Falcons head coach got going. Coming off a blowout loss and strapped with a team that was reeling from the Michael Vick dogfighting scandal, Petrino took off to become the head coach at Arkansas, piling onto the Falcons' woes. "He preached team and he preached family and then he quit on us. That's not what a man does. He lied to us," said then-quarterback Joey Harrington.

3. Robert Irsay: There might be no good way to move a football team, but no owner was more hated than Irsay when he packed up Mayflower vans in the middle of a snowy March night to move the Baltimore Colts to Indianapolis. Could the Baltimoreans at least get some warning to make a grab at all the memorabilia? "The Colts were one with the city. It's really quite amazing," wrote Frank Deford at the time. "A man who could screw up professional football in Baltimore would foul the water at Lourdes or flatten the beer in Munich." And nobody likes flat beer.

4. Johnny Damon: "It was a privilege and an honor," wrote the former Red Sox "idiot" in a full-page ad he took out in the Boston Globe after defecting to the rival Yankees in 2005. So did it help? Not really. Still booed in Boston, apparently the only thing Damon could have done was kept his word (and his hair) when he said, "I will never play for the New York Yankees."

5. Carlos Boozer: Looking for a raise? Try what's been deemed the Carlos Boozer negotiating tactics. After two years in Cleveland, Boozer was about to move up to the penthouse after reportedly making a verbal agreement to a $40 million deal. That's when the Utah Jazz suddenly announced they'd locked up Boozer for six years at $68 million. "We are both very surprised and very disappointed by what is now being reported," said the Cavaliers in a statement.  Apparently the hatred spread worldwide. When one Cleveland Plain-Dealer reporter decided to revisit the betrayal at the Beijing Olympics, she found that Boozer was known as "Fan Gu Zai," which, loosely translated, means "Betrayal Skull Dude" in China

Which other Benedict Arnold figures did we overlook? Let us know below...