Worst Team Ever

Who is the worst team of all time? I am going to throw out that it is the Houston Texans. Don't think this is just some knee jerk reaction because they got throttled by the hated cowboys yesterday, I fully expected that,...let's just look at some numbers shall we.

Houston's inaugural season in 2002 started out with a bang...winning their first ever game against the Q-Car led Cowboys. At that point they were 1-0 and let's just say that looks like the high point of their short existence. Since that game (and through Sunday's) the Texans are 18-50. Yep, you saw that right...they win games at a .275 rate. So slightly more than 1 out of 4.

Now you might be saying to yourself surely there are other teams just as bad...well you would be wrong. The tampa bay bucs - widely considered the worst expansion team of all time - actually had a better overall winning percentage after their first 4 years than do the Texans. Even though they started out with a winless first year and only 2 wins their second campaign, in their first four years they won .283 of their games. The kicker is they actually went to the post season in year 4 with a 10-6 record. Where were the texans after year four? 2-14, first pick in the draft - which they screwed up.

I read an article today saying that over 1/2 of the draft picks from the first four rounds from the four years they have been around aren't even on the texans roster today. That sucks. This team even had a start from scratch with the salary cap and screwed that up by signing horrible players.

So maybe you are thinking that come on, Tampa was long ago. There are teams now that are horrible, the texans must be better than them. Well, there is a slight argument here...but only slightly. If you throw in year 2001 through 2005 the Detroit Lions actually only won .263 percent of their games during those five years. Bug since 2002 when the Texans came to be, the great Detroit Lions are one game better than the Texans: 19-45 compared to 18-46. So far this year they each have 1 win so depending on how this year turns out the Lions may actually be the worst team ever of the Texans' era.

But if you back up ten years (96-05 seasons) the lions have a very ugly but still better than the texans winning percentage of .352. Let's see the texans get to this first before throwing Det under the bus. The cardinals are hanging tough with the lions at .352 and The new Cleveland browns are a little worse than that at .319 (99-05 seasons).

Based on the current performance of the Texans and the fact that of their 4 losses this year they are averaging getting beat by 19 points, I see it being a very hard time for them to even get to their average by winning 4 games. This team is set up to be a colossal disaster for the ages and to throw on top of that the next potential "bowie over jordan" reference that will be repeated over and over.

Add to all of this that I really want to root for this team, but given the opportunity for a new fresh start they choose a bland name, a been there done that color scheme, and can't pick a player in the draft that fans can just get behind and root for (ala reggie bush). Sometimes being a fan just sucks.