There have been plenty of good seasons inside National Football League (NFL) – seasons in which teams and players have accomplished the seemingly unthinkable and established records that would have once been considered unlikely. The 2008 period turned out to be that kind of period as just one team set a record that stunned the football earth. The team was the Detroit Lions, plus the record was just one that all with the other teams in the League sincerely hope they never match. In that year, the Lions managed to lose each and every regular period game in which they played, setting a new low for NFL teams of zero wins and sixteen losses.

 

The history from the winless season

 

Think it or not, heading winless was not that uncommon within the early days with the NFL. The decade with the 1920s resulted in one or additional teams going without a win in each couple of years. Following that period and until Earth War II, the winless year or so became much more of an oddity, with only the Cincinnati Reds group of 1934 going devoid of a win (in their defense, the group went under after the very first eight games, and could have possibly won one or much more of their remaining three contests). Throughout Globe War II, the Lions lost all eleven of their games in 1942, the Chicago Cardinals went zero and ten in 1943, and a united Cardinal-Pittsburgh team lost their only ten games of 1944. The 1960 Dallas squad and 1976 Tampa Bay team also went winless, as did the Baltimore Colts in 1982 – though the latter’s year or so as shortened due to the NFL strike. From that point onward, no group had gone winless until the Lions of 2008.

 

Nobody expected success

 

It need to be noted that no a single expected the Detroit Lions to compete for any type of championship in 2008. The group has been in a sad state for some time now, along with the notion that it could have even vied for its divisional title was inconceivable. Still, inside the last quarter century there has not been an NFL group that has not discovered a method to win at least 1 game throughout a period. The idea that the Lions would accomplish the feat was made all the additional unthinkable by the truth that they won all four of their pre-season games – a reality that should be noted by the just one or two delusional fans out there who still think that the pre-season has any type of meaning.

 

Chances lost

 

The most memorable part from the period would be the opportunities that the Lions had to avoid their winless results. Their week-six game against the Vikings was certainly within reach, as the Lions lost by only two, and several other games were within ten or fewer points. Even in the last contest of the season against Green Bay, the Lions were inside game for practically the entire sixty minutes of play. Their failure to stop the Packers from scoring in the fourth quarter, nonetheless, was an almost fitting end to what will always be remembered as one of the worst seasons in any team’s history in the NFL.

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