Worst Team Ever - Part 2

Saw this little tidbit from the elias sports bureau today:

"The Lions' loss was their 71st over the last six seasons, the second-highest six-year total in NFL history. But with only two weeks remaining in the NFL season, the record is safe for now. The Bucs lost 74 games from 1983 through 1988."

Let's review our venerable Houston Texans shall we...

2002: 4-12
2003: 5-11
2004: 7-9
2005: 2-14
2006: 4-10 (through 14 games)

I say they lose to Indy, but I am going to give the old texans the benefit of the doubt and say they will beat cleveland on the last day of the year to end up 5-11 for 2006.

That would give the texans 57 losses. 58 if they end up losing both. If Detroit loses out they would have 73 losses over 6 years. As mentioned above Tampa Bay had 74.

If the texans lose out and have 58 losses then they can only tie this mark of futility by going 0-16 in 2007. So Tampa's record here is safe. It is almost as hard to go 0-16 as it is to go 16-0. Just look at the lions and raiders this year or texans last year...each figured out a way to win 2 games - who knows how.

Let's see how the lions end up, but it will be hard for the Texans to match even their suckyness. So with this years performance I think the lions have solidified themselves as the worst team of the Texans era so far.

But crazier things have happened...maybe the Texans can figure out a way to be historically bad.

On a related note, how much of a stomach punch was it to see Vince Young just roll over his hometown team. The 2006 NFL draft will be a day that long lives in infamy for Houston fans. Whether mario williams turns out to be the next coming of Lawrence Taylor (unlikely) or just the next coming of simeon rice (even that would be nice) he will never be Reggie Bush or VY. I liked Bush once the texans picked up Carr's option and said they were out on VY. I figured Bush could do nothing but help the offense here. And seeing the Texans backfield he would have been a HUGE upgrade. But I don't see why they still could have picked up Carr's option and rolled the dice on VY. If nothing else you trade him (or Carr) down the road. All VY does is win football games. And what a story it would have made. Hometown product, comes back to reclaim glory for downtrodden expansion team. It made so much sense of course they didn't do it.



Why do I root for teams...