JazzboCR wrote:
But not the first team to go 0-season--that honor still belongs to the '76 Carolina Panthers. Now that team was castoffs, rejects and well-over-the hill players but still... The Lions still have a chance (slim but existing) to get off the schneid. We'll see. The Ford Motor Company great new products to the contrary ain't doing so well either.
It was the Tampa Bay Bucs (Panthers did not enter the league until 1996, I believe) but yes they were truly terrible, worse than these Lions who really are not much worse than last year's Dolphins.
But to be fair the Bucs didn't get two extra shots (the Phins were 0-13, they got close) and even though I HIGHLY doubt that would have mattered, they were an expansion franchise in an era where expansion rosters were pretty ragtag. They didn't have a proper expansion draft or any sort of preferred standing in the amateur draft like they do today, I mean that roster was utterly talentless (despite, oddly, two Heisman winners turned junk pros on the roster).
In other words, they were worse than the Lions, but they had an excuse. What is Detroit's plea? That they have run their organization on a firm basis on nepotism, incompetence and taking their fan base for granted?