Our favorite sports teams are like family. We connect to their wins and losses the same as if they were ours. Out there on the field, diamond, track or court are our brothers and sisters wearing the uniforms designating the bond.

So we take it personally when we see "one of ours" act in ways unbecoming.

This is especially true if they do something as dastardly as, say, join forces with an enemy squad. "How can they just turn their backs on us like that?" we lament.

In today's sports-as-a-business atmosphere, we all realize players rarely stay in one spot forever. But it's one thing to leave town, it's another all together to make a beeline for your former team's biggest rival.

So, as we live our lives through the televisions and stadiums, here are five examples of sports "traitors" who stand above the rest.

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