I present to you... the worst sports team of all-time (any sport) Were the Lions worse?

JakeT. · Mar 9, 2009

Per FoxSports... This list came out before Detroit went 0-fer last year. Which one is worse?

1962 New York Mets

In 1961, manager Casey Stengel and the rest of baseball's newest team appeared in the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade. It would be as close as that team ever got to a parade. In what would prove to be an inauspicious start to the franchise, pitcher Roger Craig balked in the first run allowed in Mets history. New York would lose that game, along with the next eight to start the season. And the losing didn't stop until the Mets had lost 120 games, a total second only to the 1899 Cleveland Spiders, who lost 134 of 154 games.

OccamsRazor · Mar 10, 2009

Jake T. said:
Per FoxSports... This list came out before Detroit went 0-fer last year. Which one is worse?

1962 New York Mets

In 1961, manager Casey Stengel and the rest of baseball's newest team appeared in the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade. It would be as close as that team ever got to a parade. In what would prove to be an inauspicious start to the franchise, pitcher Roger Craig balked in the first run allowed in Mets history. New York would lose that game, along with the next eight to start the season. And the losing didn't stop until the Mets had lost 120 games, a total second only to the 1899 Cleveland Spiders, who lost 134 of 154 games.

Why aren't the 1899 Cleveland Spiders the worst team ever?

JakeT. · Mar 10, 2009

OccamsRazor said:
Why aren't the 1899 Cleveland Spiders the worst team ever?

Haha I thought the same thing when I was reading the story.

FairWarning · Mar 10, 2009

OccamsRazor said:
Why aren't the 1899 Cleveland Spiders the worst team ever?

Most baseball history books disregard the 1800's.

paftraft · Mar 10, 2009

I used to love going to the Columbia football games around 1986, Wein Stadium is a nice venue. The crowd always knew they would lose, the radio announcers were really funny, they were students and were always knocking the team. One game they were acting like histerical women trying to figure out whether the new Brown QB who entered the game was the 7th or 8th string QB. I think they lost about 39 in a row. Garrett the father of the Cowboys assistant head coach was the head coach and was fired for calling a few players addicted losers when one of the parents of these addicted losers complained to the regents. The son Garret upon his fathers firing transferred to Princeton and the losing continued. Pretty funny stuff.