One of the '76 Bucs shown was Larry Ball. Great trivia bit-he was also a member of the 1972 Dolphins that went 17-0 including the postseason which makes him the only player that was on a winless and unbeaten team in their careers.
Another somewhat relevant trivia piece: Eberle Schultz was a member of the 1944 Cards-Steelers combined team that finished 0-10, and was traded to the Cleveland Rams in 1945, who went 9-1 and won the Championship (before moving to LA). Later, two of his 1944 teammates, Chet Bulger and Vince Banonis, were part of the 1947 Chicago Cardinals Championship team (three years after the Cards had been winless as part of a 29 game losing streak). Banonis later went to the Detroit Lions, being part of their Championship teams in 1952 and 1953, which were both coached by Card-Pitt assistant coach Buddy Parker. I guess the Card-Pitt team wasn't entirely a complete failure - the players and assistant coach ended up with four titles in the nine years afterwards (and one of the teams, the Cards, won in 1947).
Also John McKay was a good coach. The Buccs were in the playoffs by 1979 with him and they were thinking SB until Hugh Culverhouse went crazy. This team included McKay, Wayne Fontes, Abe Gibron, Doug Williams, Ricky Bell, and many other solid names who don’t get the respect they deserve.
You Forget about when the Patriots went undefeated even in the pre season but lost in the Superbowl to the Ny Giants. And if you want to go way back the Chicago Bears.
@@nateeskenazi8280 At least when I'm not using the incredible superpower of persistent 12 hour shifts to force this on the world, anyway... www.reddit.com/r/UrinatingTree/comments/el4njd/tree_in_a_romper/
The fact Calvin Johnson was on the continuously clownshoes Lions and still became a Hall of Famer so young is that much more of a mighty impressive feat
He's only a HOFer because of this eras inflated stats. The fact he nicknamed himself after one of the worst movie villains of all time should've also been a factor...
In 2008 my brother was living near Detroit. I went to visit him and we decided to go to the Lions/Jaguars game mainly to see Ford Field, and because we knew there'd be tickets available at face value, if not cheaper. It was an embarrassment to say the least. As we were walking up to the stadium, we went past a group of tailgater season-ticket holders. One of them got up and said, "Well come on guys, let's go watch these losing-ass Lions!" During the game I looked across the stadium and there were some guys holding up a bedsheet sign that said "BOYCOTT THE LIONS." I looked over a little while later and they were being escorted out by security. On the field, there were some plays where you could just tell the players weren't even trying anymore, like they were at practice instead of a game. And that was the day they had a big 75th Anniversary thing at halftime, with Barry Sanders coming out on the field and everything. Man I felt sorry for Lions fans. And just the year before I had been at a Patriots game at Foxboro, so someday I can tell my grandchildren I saw both a 16-0 team and an 0-16 team. Sheesh.
I thought they would do like they did for Houston and just give them the whole decade. 2001 - 2010 no winning seasons only one where they didn't have double digit losses. 39-121 over those 10 years.
A piece of trivia : the Baltimore/Indianapolis Colts played against every team that has gone 14-0, 0-14, 16-0 or 0-16. In fact, if we exclude the Jaguars who played the 2007 Patriots in the playoffs, only the Colts and Redskins were common opponents for the 2007 Patriots and 2008 Lions. The Jaguars also played the winless 2017 Browns, although Washington did not.
@@retrostu6917 we’re not pathetic also they’re are fan bases worse then us like Cleveland fans Detroit and then fans in Oakland and uh Canada hockey fans take it way too far
I think it's a tossup between the Bucs and the Lions. The only difference was the Bucs were an expansion team in a league that did very little to help expansion teams. The Lions were in their 75th year. The total lack of effort by the Lions, and the lack of direction by coaches and management (and I like Rod Marinelli, brilliant defensive mind) was just off the charts. That Browns team was an absolute mess, but they fought hard and lost a lot of close games at the end. The Lions gave up in so many games long before it was close to being over.
@BlackWatchAmbush I remember their games against the Vikings and Titans. You could see the exact moment the team quit trying to even compete, much less win the game. What's so weird was Rod Marinelli is a defensive coach, but their defense would just stop trying half way through their games. That team was really hard to watch.
If youre from Dallas, you'll love this. Back in 1989, we went 1-15. We were terrible. One time we were driving on the highway and someone had spay painted on top of a familiar sign: Loop 12 Cowboys 0 Greatest burn I've seen to this day.
Brian Flores deserves so much credit for the job he did with the 2019 Dolphins. That team was destined to be on this list and were supposed to win 3 games MAX. Everyone was talking about how they were the worst team of all time (worse than the 2008 Lions and 2017 Browns) and they ended up winning 5 games, and beat two playoff teams in the Patriots and Eagles. That's one hell of a coaching job.
Those people who said that were idiots. Dolphins were tanking for Tua and could have won atleast three more games. They were reaming my Steelers on primetime and I swear decided "oh we better not do that."
When Matt Millen originally took the job as GM of the Lions, he told the Lions owner that he wasn't qualified for the job, but Mr. Ford replied, "You're smart, you'll figure it out." Whenever someone is told that, it backfires almost every time
Matt Millen raised a red flag, telling Ford he wasn't qualified, and Ford blew him off: no wonder the Lions hit rock bottom in 2008 (finishing 0-16), and have been a laughingstock since 1958.
WCF wasnt qualirfied to be an owner either LOL. 3 fun facts- 1) Talk about cursed, he signed the paperwork to take over the team at noon Nov 22, 1963, within 2 hours of JFK assassination. #2) he hired his first coach Harry Gilmer, who had no head coaching experince at all and whom he'd met from Alcoholics Anonymous. 3) WC Ford was the project manager of the EDSEL. If those arent red flags, nothing is.
@@daveleash7449 If we put aside the rather unfortunate timing of Ford purchasing the team (the sale would have been arranged for November 22 before the JFK assassination), I am truly shocked - he hired a head coach with zero experience whatsoever (surely someone at the Lions made inquiries about this), who he had met from Alcoholics Anonymous (the meeting place is a big red flag right there), and had been the project manager for the epic failure known as the Edsel (that car cost the Ford Motor Company $250 million in 1959 money - the equivalent of $2.4 billion today). These, along with trading Bobby Layne to the Steelers, are reasons why the Lions have been a joke of a franchise since 1958.
The 0-16 Lions had a Pro Football Hall of Famer in Calvin Johnson and the 0-16 Browns had a future Pro Football Hall of Famer in Joe Thomas yet some playoff teams don't have hall of famers.
Can't wait till they update the list with the 2016-2017 Cleveland Browns, the only team to have won only one game in a two year stretch. Even the expansion Buccaneers won two games in their first two seasons of existance.
@@AndrewWarrenPatriotsfan They could easily replace the 90's Bengals. At least the Bengals made the playoffs in 1990 and recorded an 8-8 record in 1996, the Browns of the 2010's couldn't even do that much. Hell we could put the new Cleveland Browns as a whole on the list, seeing as they've only had two winning seasons in their entire existence, while never going .500.
The Haslam Era Browns have raised futility, failure, and f*ckups to an artform. Not that they were much good *before* Slick Jimmy bought the franchise - but at least they weren't as abysmally annually awful as they are now! JIMMY HASLAM FOR PRESIDENT!!!!! (What the hell - apparently, any failing businessman can do it!)
Still a fan for life the New Orleans Saints hold dubious honor of being tied with Seattle for the worst opening day record in NFL history I remember one year that's all the saints had to do is beat Cincinnati and I mean Cincinnati was a bad team there were 2 and 11 and all the saints Had To Do Is Win to get the playoffs and they lost so all they had to do is win any game and getting the playoffs they didn't make it Walter Payton got the rushing title when playing against the Saints also the Run that Beast mode had against the Saints and also the missed tackle in the playoff game against Minnesota the list go on and on
@@eldridgejoseph7385 For me the epitome of the Saints prior to the Drew Brees/Payton QB/HC era is the missed extra point versus I believe the Jaguars. My dad when they won the SB I remember growing up said this: "I better get my thermometer out cause hell must've frozen over."
I think what you hear around 36:11-36:19 could be said about the 2017-2018 Cleveland Browns. 2 teams in 9 years went full speed reverse 0-16 in the regular season & an undefeated 4-0 in the pre-season. Amazing!...
Don't have to, had them for 40 years Once the Jets asked me to write them a check totaling $80,000 for the privilege of buying season tickets at $700 per seat per game- including preseason garbage, so fans could bankroll their overpriced, overhyped dump built on a Jersey swamp I told them to go and fuck themselves and never looked back
@@nyfumblegiants7963 They asked you to write a check for $80,000 for those seats - noting their offer for all 20 pre- and regular-season games was $14,000 - so you made a good call to bail on them. It has been reported that the Jets may leave Metlife for a new stadium in New York City when the option comes up in 2026 (I am assuming this is the stadium you referred to them bankrolling).
Personally, I believe the 2008 Lions were WORSE than the 2017 Browns for a couple reasons: 1. The Browns had a lot of inexperienced players while the Lions had veterans. In fact some of the 2008 Lions won Super Bowls on other teams! 2. The 2008 Lions had more points against them than the 2017 Browns. Thus, the Browns were at least competent on defense. 3. The Browns forced OT twice. The Lions almost always trailed in games and even blew a 17-0 lead against the Buccaneers.
The thing is, you have to broaden the scope. The Lions went 0-16 for one season, but the year before and the year after, they weren’t nearly as bad. The Browns were 1-15 the season before they went 0-16. To me, that makes them the worst ever.
And reason 4. The Detroit Lions went 2-14 in 2009 (when they drafted Matthew Stafford). Meanwhile, the Browns drafted Baker Mayfield in 2018, and improved to 7-8-1.
I think the Lions were just a little worse than the Browns. The Browns were at least competitive in a number of games, even late in the season. The Lions were just completely incompetent right out of the gate.
I didnt see much of the 0-16 Browns but I did watch their last game of the season vs Steelers and they looked decent and promising. However, the Lions, they were just bad
No. 4 would be the Lions allowing 40 points or more in at least 3 games at home - Packers, Saints and Titans. The Titans scored 31 points in the 1st half and 16 more in the 2nd mostly on FGs. The Saints had 42 in the 3rd quarter. The Packers scored 48 in their game on 4 pick 6s from their defense.
One of the best things about the 1996 Jets for Steeler fans is Neil O’Donnell bailed on the Steelers to sign with the Jets, citing he wanted to play for a team “more committed to winning”, despite the fact the Steelers just went to the Super Bowl.
I know this came out before this happened but the 2013 Houston Texans are one of the worst teams Ive ever seen. Texan fans thought they were gonna be a Super Bowl contender. They ended up going 2-14 with 14 straight losses and in those 2 wins they both went to overtime. That was also the year Matt Schaub became Mr Pick 6
@Dud512 That team may have been the most underachieving team in all history. I remember when they drafted Deandre Hopkins for the offense, and added Ed Reed to Watt and Cushing on defense and thought they had a Super Bowl contender for sure! To go from 12-4 the year before, add to your team to get better, and then plummet to a 2-14 season is unreal!
Nolan probably was glad he could get the hell out of there. During that season, the Saints even led the 49ers (with a young Joe Montana) 35-7 at halftime at Candlestick Park ... and ended up losing 38-35 in overtime in one of the most epic meltdowns in NFL history.
@@MRB16th And many on the team point to that game as the game that changed their mentality. Imagine not just losing in that way, but indirectly creating the dynasty of your era that when you finally get good enough to make the playoffs/compete, is ALWAYS in your way.
This list is a decade old. Even then I'd still probably put both the 08 Lions and 76 Bucs over the 17 Browns. The Browns were at least competitive in most of the games they lost, as they lost 6 games by a single possession and two in OT, while the Lions only lost by a single possession 4 times, none in OT.
“I’m 80 years old, I want results now! Rich Kotite in my opinion is one of those men that can make a winning team out of the New York Jets.” Uhhhhhhh Mr. Hess did you see the results Kotite had on the ‘94 Eagles the season prior. 7-2 in the first 9 games and lose 7 straight to end the season...
Yep. Plus Kotite brung over a lot of eagles players to the Jets whole Belichick brung over the few best defenders on the Jets to N.E & umm well the rest is history.
@@troyf.9050 Yep, Kotite was hired after losing seven straight in Philadelphia and steered the ship over an almost impossible 4-35 stretch, yet Walt Michaels was fired after an AFC Championship appearance and back-to-back playoff berths. And then Joe Walton got seven years even though they melted down in December in 84, 86 and 87. At least the Hess truck was out there every Christmas.
It's interesting the teams on this list that turned it around and won a championship or more. I get the sense that the 1960 Cowboys was a learning experience for Tom Landry on a number of levels, including how to coach offense. He obviously was one of the greatest coaches all time. But it took time.
When your team has been so atrocious for a decade, and you can't pick out the season that stands out, your team really sucks. Hence, being the Cincinnati Bungles during the 90s.
Being a proud Detroit Lions fan, it hurt to see them go 0-16. But what hurt worse was listening to all these smug, pompous sportscasters who made fun of this team. I know that losing is a part of the game, but some of these guys took way too much pleasure in the Lions and the city of Detroit's misery. So, that being said and until my Lions turn it all around, and none of them were man enough to show some degree of compassion (with the exception of ESPNs Chris "Boomer" Berman), I have compiled a top 10 list of the worst sports broadcast journalists of THAT time. Granted, I know it won't change the past but lift the spirits of my Lions as well as their fans and as we ascend to the summit of the NFL, we'll know who NOT to speak to when we hoist that Vince Lombardi Trophy. Are you ready? Alright here we go.
If the lions spent half as much time focusing on getting better as you do bitching they probably would’ve won a game. If you don’t want them to be made fun of for not winning, they should probably win. So I’ve compiled a list. Of top 10 “fuckin crybabies in the comments section”.. I’ll go ahead and let you guess who got the number 1 spot…
there has been a very quiet and very large bunch of football fans not from Detroit who just want the team to finally start winning, its just too painful, I hope they get a Lombardi! soon. Greg Landry & the 70 Lions 2nd in offense, 2nd in defense, that was over 50 years ago, lord have mercy.
I’m a lifelong Jets fan and can totally relate to losing and your team getting belittled by d*ck heads like Troy Aikman and Chris Collingsworth! I hope your Lions finally win it all!!!
Bill Peterson needs his own hall of quotes "If you think for one damn minute I'm gonna take a loss standing down you just. Have another thaw--thing coming" xD
The 1-15 1990 Patriots, one of the most hapless offenses ever, threw a total of 14 TD passes. The 2020 Pats finished with 10 behind Cam Newton and Jarrett Stidham, an almost impossibly low number in today's NFL. Welcome back, Cam.
Scam Newton, reduced to celebrating making first downs in a game where he throws a pick-six against the Atlanta Falcons. Has his game ever degenerated.
god bless bill peterson for some of the greatest quotes ever: “lead us in a few words of silent prayer” “you guys pair up in groups of three then line up in a circle” “line up alphabetically by height” “we’re not going to take this standing down” “men, i want you to think of one word all season and one word only: super bowl” and my personal favorite: “when they play the national anthem, i want you to stand on your helmets and put the sidelines under your arms.”
As an Eagles fan from '04 onwards, discovering that awful '68 season was pretty saddening. But then Dallas shows up twice on the list which softened the blow at least a little bit. It also makes me wonder where last season's godawful Broncos and the 0-16 Browns would fall if they remade this list today
The Eagles sabotaged their tank. The Bills ended up winning the 1968 Tank Bowl The 1st overall pick in the draft… RB from USC… OJ Simpson… Maybe in the long run it was best the Eagles didn’t win the Tank Bowl As for the Cowboys showing up twice the list 1989 That was a bad team. That was when the Cowboys hit rock bottom after a slow decline that started with Jackie Smith dropping a pass in the end zone in Super Bowl XIII In season, Jimmy Johnson traded Herschel Walker to the Vikings for players that became picks What did the Cowboys do with those picks? They became Emmitt Smith, Darren Woodson, Russell Maryland, & Kevin Smith. Pieces along with other parts through a mixture of good drafting, free agency (Jay Novacek), and another big trade (Charles Haley from SF) The Vikings thought that Walker was the key piece to them returning to their first Super Bowl in 13 years Turns out their ceiling was getting their asses kicked by the 49ers in the playoffs. Again Walker played for the Eagles (1992-94), Giants (1995), and returned to the Cowboys (1996-97), but by then he was a shell of his former glory. He was primarily a kick returner. In 1996, the Patriots rookie kicker chased Walker down. That kicked? Some dude named Adam Viniteri 1960 The Cowboys were a rush job to counter the AFL’s efforts as they had two teams in Texas: Dallas Texans, later relocated to Kansas City to become the Chiefs and the Houston Oilers who are known today as the Tennessee Titans. It was one of the reasons why the Cardinals moved from Chicago to St Louis and Minneapolis got an NFL team that resulted in Oakland getting the Raiders The Cowboys was the NFL’s 2nd attempt in Dallas. The first try was the Texans about a decade earlier. Lasted a season, played the remained of their games in Ohio As the clip mentioned, the Cowboys didn’t get a chance to participate in the 1960 Draft. And the expansion draft was no better Fun facts: the Cowboys first game was against the Steelers, a loss. They tied the Giants 31-31 to finish the season 0-11-1. The next season they finally got their first win, against the Steelers
before Jim Kelly came to Buffalo-the 1984, 1985 Bills were 2-14 each year (with probably the worst coach in team history-Kay Stephenson--matched between 2001-2003 by head coach Mr. Bountygate Gregg Williams)-the 2-14 seasons allowed the Bills to draft Bruce Smith, Thurmon Thomas and a host of other great players
@@buxeessingh2571 I resented Stephenson as he and then QB Joe Ferguson convinced demented Bills owner Ralph Wilson to not resign HC Chuck Knox at the end of the strike season in 1982. The Bills then sank into oblivion until Bill Polian started to rebuild the team. The only good thing about Stephenson's ineptitude was that the Bills acquired high draft picks that ultimately formed the nucleus of the SB teams that followed in 1990-1993
Tom Landry's last 1st round draft pick - Michael Irvin Jimmy Johnson's first 1st round draft pick- Troy Aikman Jerry Jones trades Herschel Walker to Minnesota for a bunch of 1st round picks and 2nd round picks One of those 1st round picks- 17th pick Emmitt Smith,HB (Florida) 1990
Robert Sprouse the only way to win is to blow everything up and start from scratch, you act like going 1-15 then winning 3 Super Bowls 7 years after is a bad thing lmao
It was seven for one!!! Jimmy Johnson used those seven and looked at over fifty five different players and built a championship team!!! Thanks too the vikings!!!
In 1980, my friends and I used to go to those games when we were kids with our dads and all of us would wear those bags. We helped start a tradition for every shitty sports team across the country.
@@FrunkisOreilly he was the first coach to lose to the Bucs. Conrad Dobler, who played for the Saints at the time said the next season when they were going to play the Bucs they couldn't watch the game film of the Bucs loss because Stram had burned it.
31:03 has me ROTFLMAO!!!! Holy shit that’s funny!! Pun very much intended!! “Ok guys, we gotta big game today, bring it in for team prayer,…..now I lay me down to sleep…..” 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Nfc north is so kind to Cowboys. Bears drafted Meredith for cowboys, because cowboys were not technically allowed to draft yet. So bears drafted Don Meredith for them purposely to give him to cowboys their first season.
Dick Nolan in 1980 with the Saints was extremely comparable to Norm Van Brocklin in 1974 with the Falcons. Both were reasonably successful in their earlier HC job, couldn't get over the hump, and went to a second team, which they both got to the cusp of the playoffs before enduring late-season collapses, went into the next season with high expectations, and laid massive eggs. Both were fired during those seasons and neither were HC's again.
@Harry Engel He was good for Jacksonville, he was barely in New York, only there for about 4 years, so picking Sapp Ty Law, or Derrick Brooks would've been a better alternative
What's funniest is that the Jet game Hugh Douglas is likely referencing at 14:47 was their opener in 1995 at Miami in which they lost 52-14. It's the 1996 team that was the #7 team on this list, but I'd contend the 1995 team was even worse. Good times!
I don't recall if it was an honorable mention, but the '91 Colts should be considered too. In a 16-game season they put up 143 points, which may well be the lowest total ever scored in a 16-game season. Jeff George threw a total of 10 TD passes that year and three of them came in the their Week 11 win against the Jets, their only win of the season.
@@jamesgurksnis4392 Wow - that gives an average of 8.8, a hair lower than the 1976 Bucs (their expansion bretheren) and the 1991 Colts. With this in mind, what record did the 1992 Seahawks finish with?
@@MRB16th The “Zero Gang” 1977 Buccaneers scored only 103 points in fourteen games, or 7.36 points per game. However, in their first twelve games of 1977, the Buccaneers scored a mere 53 points (that is, 4.42 points per game!) and were shut out six times!
1. Wish somewhere out there is the original airing with the (I think) '01 Panthers in 10th and the expansion Bucs at 1st. 2. This is a list in need of updating, with the' 16-17 browns very high on the list.
I'd put them in the 2 range. The Lions had multiple injuries and flukey losses. They weren't a pushover in my memory. Whereas the Browns it was almost like that team that plays the Globetrotters. How in the hell are they going to blow it this time.
@@CreightonRabs The best idea would be 2008 to 2017 Browns, and have 2007-2009 Saint Louis Rams very high as well. According to Pro Football Reference, the 2008-2009 Rams and 2008-2009 Lions were the two worst teams between 1978 and 2015. The Lionsʼ 0-16 record undoubtedly has caused people to forget just how bad the Rams were, or that both Football Outsiders and Pro Football Reference say that the 2-14 2009 Lions were worse than the 0-16 2008 Lions.
@@michaelbanaszak7775 More than Marvin Lewis, Jim Mora, and Buddy ryan combined. Sometimes the not so great coaches and players have more accolades while the great ones have little to show for the playoff/championship pedigree.
Well at least he is honest. He was no genius and had no answers, But just saying those words do not inspire confidence. Should have said something like this. I am a very intelligent hard working guy and I will find the answers. Act like a leader, show some confidence.
I've been a Lions fan since 1965 and will be until the day I die. Every time I think of Matt Millen, I want to puke. He ruined one of the coolest uniforms in NFL history by adding the black trim and lightening the Honolulu Blue. It almost looked teal. His draft picks were a joke and he later admitted how bad his choices were and thought the whole thing was funny. Well, he certainly was a joke.
What’s ignored about the 1996 Jets and Parcells taking over after that was the Jets spent $70 million on free agent and rookie talent. Parcells inherited that and thus “rebuilt” the Jets.
And that's also why the 1995 Jet team was worse than 1996. Sure, they won 3 games but that team was completely devoid of talent. The only bright spot of that season was Chrebet. Their offense was anemic. The 1996 team had much more talent and could at least move the ball a little. They were of course horribly coached and blew a number of leads.
@@33moneyballthe Jets under Parcells went to the AFC championship game where they lost to the EVENTUALLY champion Denver Broncos, the Jets were good that year.
There have been a lot of horrible NFL teams, depending how far back you want to go. In the fifties, the 1950 Colts and the 1952 Dallas Texans were both 1-11. The 50's also saw the worst Packer team ever. The 1958 Packers was 1-10-1. This was a year before Lombardi took over and turned the franchise into a winner. In the forties, there were four 0 fer teams, all during war years. The 1942 Lions were the first no win Detroit team going 0-11. The 1943 Chicago Cardinals were 0-10. The Steelers and the Cardinals merged for the 1944 season. That team went 0-10 as did the 1944 Brooklyn Tigers. The Tigers had been the Brooklyn Dodgers and this was that franchise's last season in the league. The Cardinals turned it around later in the 40's, winning the championship in 1947. 1944 was the last year there were multiple 0 fer teams in the league. This happened regularly in the first few years of the league when there were teams from smaller cities and scheduling was inconsistent between teams.
@@jeremykrause4665 - Would you argue that the Lions were basically dead on arrival for most games, whereas the Browns just kept making fundamental fuckups that boned them at every turn?
blackyoshi1230 I would not argue that. I remember one game the browns lost to the packers in overtime and blew a 14 point lead in the fourth quarter with lots of stupid plays.
Jeremy Krause Exactly. Hue Jackson made stupid decisions that costs the team. It wasn’t the fact the Browns defense was bad, it’s the fact that their offensive play calling was awful.
I was living in LA the year the Lions went 0-16. I had a job where my schedule was flexible. I'd only take Sundays off to go to the bar to watch the Lions. I watched 15 of those games. Thanksgiving I watched at home and they were down by 3 touchdowns before I even had a chance to sit down. The last game against the Packers I couldn't bare to watch. To caught the news on the radio and its one of the only times I have teared up as a football fan. It was so embarrassing to be a fan of this team. I had supported them through some bad years but to lose every game in a season was down right humiliation. It still hurts to think about.
The team the Lions have now with Dan Campbell, Jared Goff, Amon-Ra St. Brown, Brian Branch, Jahmyr Gibbs, etc. is night and day compared to what they used to be for so long, the NFL’s perennial laughingstock franchise. I’m happy for Lions fans that they finally have a team worth getting excited about.
Well since they allow for multi-year teams, the Browns of 1999-present. Only 2 winning seasons, one playoff appearance and for a two year period went 1-31 with plenty of draft busts and bad coaching hires to mention.
Oddly enough if the makers of the list didn't cheat with the "the Bengals of the 90s," they would have went past the 90s to the 2-14 Bengals of 2002. That team was the culmination of the decade-plus feeling of hopelessness that was following that franchise.
Look up some stories on the 63 Mets if you're ever looking for a laugh. They once traded for a catcher, giving Cleveland a player to be named later, that proved to be so incompetent they sent him back to the Indians two weeks later. To this day it is the only known example of a player being traded for himself.
The player was Harry Chiti, and the team was Chicago, I believe. I know for sure he played for the Cubs, because the fans called him something that sounded a lot like his last name.
@@macofalltrades6396 Wikipedia notes that before he played a game for the Indians, Harry Chiti was acquired by the expansion New York Mets for a player to be named later. He was sent back to the Indians after 15 games and a .195 batting average, thus becoming the first MLB player to be traded for himself. Three other players have been traded for themselves since: Dickie Noles, Brad Gulden, and John McDonald - Gulden was also due to very poor play, while Noles and McDonald had their proposed trade fall through (due to the teams being unable to agree).
@@MRB16th Ok on Cleveland and Chiti, but I know for sure that the guy played for the Cubs, and yeah, they called him "Shitty." They'd yell, "Hey, Shitty, when you gonna get a hit?" He could never yell back because he had no clue when he was going to get a hit.
@@macofalltrades6396 His stint with the Cubs was between 1950- 1952 and 1955-1956, for what it's worth (he spent the other two years in the Army including a stint in Korea). And since the Mets were basically added as an expansion team to fill in the void in New York after the Dodgers and Giants moved to California, finishing rock bottom in their first year (with a woeful record of 40-120), I see why Cubs fans taunted him with this.
Gonna be real fun watching the 2016 and 2017 Browns when they revamp this list. I don't think losing 31 of 32 games in 2 seasons is likely to happen again this century.
Making it worse is the scene from HARD KNOCKS where Jackson belligerently refused to have players who weren’t participating in practices stay and pay attention, and acted all proud of himself for it.
One of my favorites episodes together with Coaches who should have stayed in college, lol. It's almost fitting that Bucs won their first game vs Saints. I think Saints had the worst record overall of all teams that played the entire 70s decade?
Conrad Dobler was traded to the Saints in 1978. He said they were preparing to play the Bucs that year to end the season but couldn't watch the game film of the loss the previous season because Hank Stram had burned it.
I don't think they get much worse than the 1976-77 Bucs. They didn't score their first points until week 3 in 1976, were shut out 11 times in 28 games(14 game seasons). The 1977 team scored a combined 51 points in the first 12 weeks of the season getting shutout 6 times overall and 4 times in 5 games before finally winning. They ended up beating my beloved Cards that year in week 14.
I remember that the Bucs-Cardinals game, coupled with the 55-14 Miami blowout over St. Louis, effectively ended Conrad Dobler's career - I seem to remember a helmet-throwing incident that greased the skids for him.
@@macofalltrades6396and firing Coryell was just plain stupid. Took the Cards 5 seasons to recover(didn't have a winning season until the strike shortened 1982 season). But after the Dolphins game the Cards didn't win a game until week 9 of the 1978 season.
Knowing the Eagles players and how they felt about their coach, one can only hope it was water. "Hey this isn't water. But what the Hell, I also like lemonade."
I can't imagine the backlash a coach would get in 2020 if they talked to their players the way Parcells did to his players 😂 god damn I miss football before the 2010's
No it's fair to have the Bucs at number two behind the Lions. They were an expansion team so it was a guarantee that they were going to be bad at first especially without free agency.
@@Jekyll08 Not at all. If you want to say oh this season was worse in terms of horrible accomplishment because of that, sure go ahead. But in the criteria of what is the WORST team with the worst amount of talent that would get its ass kicked barring miracles on the football field, you can't top the 1976 Bucs.
Orange Fox Oh I agree the ‘76 Bucs are the worst of the worst so I get why some say they should be number one. In the end because they were an expansion team I agree with giving them a minuscule pass which gets them the number two spot behind the 08 Lions who, as stated in the video, were in their 75th year. You also have to remember they played in two very different times so it gets technical with how you judge them. Needless to say both teams were certainly terrible giving up over 400 points with multiple blowout games.
Jekyll But at least the 1976 and 1977 Bucs teams had a pretty good defense lead by Leroy Selmon. It was their defense that kept them in a lot of games. That side of the ball gelled quicker than I thought they would considering that they were behind the eight ball in terms of acquiring talent. The offense was just unspeakable, and devoid of anything that looked professional. Because of their defense, I’d put them at #2, not #1. To be the worst team of all time, not only your record has to reflect it, but both your offense and defense have to be straight putrid. That 0-16 Lions team was flat out inexcusable.
The Steelers of the 50's and the 60's were absolutely terrible. We were the laughing stock of the NFL, as if the current group doesn't cease to amaze me one bit with the idiocracy.
The steelers if I recall have gone the longest without being bad like their heydays. They have been medicore and maybe had a top ten pick but they did not suck so bad they had to fire the head coach.
Sorry to mention it, but the 1955 Steelers also cut Johnny Unitas at the end of training camp, saying he lacked the intelligence and speed to be a starting quarterback. Four years later, when the Steelers were still in the NFL's basement, Unitas had led the Baltimore Colts to two successive championships.
The Steelers and Eagles were down for most of the sixties, but the worst franchises in football during that time - hands down - were Washington in the NFL and Denver in the AFL.
@@macofalltrades6396 Yes - Washington didn't pick up until a change of ownership, while Denver's turning point was drafting Floyd Little, also known as "Mr. Franchise", in 1967.
I like Rich Eisen, but the 08 Lions being worse than the 76 Bucs because they were 0-16 instead of 0-14 is such horseshit. Nobody was as bad as the 76 Bucs, the 08 Lions would beat them by 7-10 points if they played one another
Christian Janssen, when I look at worst teams, I don’t look at how they were built or how many games they play, it’s the team on the field that plays on sundays, the Lions had a -249 point differential in 2 more games, while the Bucs had a -287 point differential in 2 less games, the lions lost 5 one possession games, and 3 more of their losses were within 10 points, the Bucs had 3 one possession losses and only one other loss that was within 10 points, and one of those close losses was to another expansion team full of cast offs in the Seattle Seahawks, and the Seahawks managed to win 2 games, imo the 1976 Bucs were worse and I don’t think it’s even that close, I think the lions would beat them head to head by 7-10 points. If you look at it more by circumstance and how the team was built, then I guess you’re not wrong, but I could care less about that, looking at purely the results on the field, I think the 76 Bucs were worse than the 08 Lions
@@fefonrtv7730 To be fair, the other Seattle win in 1976 came against the Atlanta Falcons. If you were to lump together the Falcons teams Marion Campbell coached (1974-1976 and 1987-1989), you get a composite record of 20-56. So it really wasn't one team - it was every team Campbell coached (he did a stint with the Eagles post-Vermeil that was just about as awful, at 17-29-1, inheriting a team that had reached the Super Bowl two years earlier). Atlanta had other bad seasons under June Jones and Dan Henning, but Campbell was absolutely the worst - every season he coached in Atlanta was a ten-loss season.
