In terms of on-field dirtiness, however, there's no decision. I don't know if The Rolling Stones are the greatest rock 'n 'roll band, but I know Mick Jagger is the greatest rock star. By that thinking, I don't know if the Cincinnati Bengals are the dirtiest on-field team in the NFL, but I know Vontaze Burfict is the dirtiest player, so he alone gets the Cincinnati Bengals to the top. Burfict's deliberate, dirty hit at the knees of Pats tight end Martellus Bennett on Sunday is what inspired this list and should be deserving of a fine and, given his history, a suspension too. (The latter won't happen, though.)

You'll remember Burfict was out of control in last year's wild-card game against the Steelers, shoving over cameras, jawing at everyone and acting such the fool that you knew it was only a matter of time before his fool-acting was going to cost the Bengals the game. It did. With the Steelers in a nearly hopeless situation with under 30 seconds left, Burfict took a headshot on Antonio Brown at full speed, after a Ben Roethlisberger pass had fluttered over Brown's head. (Big Ben could barely throw due to injury.) It was the most egregious penalty of the NFL season -- an NFL season that contained the Odell Beckham vs. Josh Norman game, I might add. Throw in another penalty on Pacman Jones for touching an official (he probably didn't deserve it, but the refs had already lost control of the game and there's no way the Bengals were getting any benefit of the doubt) and Pittsburgh went from first-and-10 on Cincinnati's 47-yard line with 18 seconds left to first-and-10 on the Cincy 17. Thirty free yards in zero seconds. Pittsburgh didn't even run another offensive play, immediately lining up for the field goal and the win, all thanks to Vontaze Burfict, the dirtiest player on the dirtiest on-field franchise in football.