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Who's worst ever -- '08 Lions or '76 Bucs?

By Patrick Hruby and Thomas Neumann
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Tuesday, December 23, 2008

"I guess, by records, yeah." -- Detroit Lions coach Rod Marinelli, on whether his team will qualify as the worst ever if it finishes the season 0-16. Why guess? With the Lions one (seemingly inevitable) loss away from the second winless season since the AFL-NFL merger, it's time to stop pitting them against current squads, and start pitting them against their only real rivals: the 1976 Tampa Bay Buccaneers, a legendarily hapless 0-14 bunch that has long been the iron pyrite standard for pro fo ...

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