TAMPA, Fla. - Pat Toomay has had enough. For more than three decades, the 1976 Tampa Bay Buccaneers set the modern standard for NFL futility by going 0-14. Now, Toomay would just as soon let someone else - the Detroit Lions, for example - finish winless and spend the next 30 years answering questions about sheer ineptitude.
The Green Bay Packers gave it a shot, but in the end they could not keep the Detroit Lions from their appointment with National Football League infamy. If he was so inclined, Chris Rose, who called the telecast of the game for Fox, had plenty of time to think about what words would accompany the Lions as they matched, and in some ways surpassed, the 0-14 expansion Tampa Bay Buccaneers of 1976.
As the steamrolling New England Patriots threaten the 1972 Dolphins' status as the NFL's only perfect team, Miami's current team is heading toward a record at the opposite end of the spectrum. No NFL team has gone 0-16. The expansion Tampa Bay Buccaneers hold the mark with an 0-14 record in 1976, but after blowing a fourth-quarter lead last week against the visiting Buffalo Bills, Miami (0-9) is looking at remaining winless heading into December.
Quote "I dont want to see a team go through that because its tough to get over. I dont wish that on anybody. Mike Washington Cornerback on 0-14 Tampa Bay Buccaneers team in 1976, who endured the NFLs last winless season but are beind challenged by 0-14 Detroit Lions Names in the games
We could go with Ben Roethlisberger's colorful explanation of the Steelers' offensive struggles: "The sky's the limit for us -- we just have to, you know, get on the plane. Or we could say it in three words: This offense stinks.
...I'm wondering if the 1976 Tampa Bay Buccaneers could boast of such comic ine...
The Buffalo Bills face the Detroit Lions at Ralph Wilson Stadium today in a game that, on the surface, has very little significance. The Bills are 0-8, the Lions 2-6. Neither is going to the playoffs, and both teams attract very little interest outside of their respective cities. The game won't be shown on local television because it didn't sell out, which shows how unappealing Bills fans view the matchup.
... outscored by 249 points to dethrone the 1976 Tampa Bay Buccaneers (0-14) as arguably the worst ...
STREAKING: At 0-15, the Lions are in danger of becoming the NFL's first 0-16 team. The last team to go through a season without a victory is the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who went 0-14 in their expansion season in 1976. The Lions also have a long losing streak in Wisconsin, where they have not beaten the Packers since 1991. PRIDE: With a five-game losing streak of their own, the Packers have one last chance to go out with a victory and build toward 2009. The last year the Packers lost five in a row was 1990. The last year they lost six in a row was in 1988.
How bad have things gotten for the winless Detroit Lions? The Lions, teetering on the brink of the NFL's first 0-16 season, have managed to evoke the rarest of emotions from around the league.
...The son of the late coach whose 1976 Tampa Bay Buccaneers finished 0-14, the only moder...
... and assured that the team wouldn't join the 1976 Tampa Bay Buccaneers as the only NFL team to have ...
The Detroit Lions stand today on the cusp of history, one step away from immortality of a dubious sort. If they lose the final game of the year to the Green Bay Packers, they will become the first team in National Football League history to go winless in a 16-game season.
... coach at Utah State for seven years, from 1976 through 1982. Ironically, that was the last phase ... compared to John McKay, coach of the 1976 Tampa. Bay Buccaneers, an expansion team that went 0-14 ...
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