Bigger dumpster fire in sports?

[Unocal 76]

There are some seriously terrible teams in the major sports right now- who is the worst of the worst?

[Jeff Mangum PI]

Washington. Shit team, insane owner, racist name. They need to just move to LA and start over.

[ToyfareMark]

Dec 24, 2014 0:33:10 GMT -5 Jeff Mangum PI said:

Washington. Shit team, insane owner, racist name. They need to just move to LA and start over.

But its been too soon since they moved from Boston...

[Andy Martin]

Honourable mention to the Cleveland Browns.

[legendkiller1985]

The Washington Redskins. It gave us the really well done South Park episode.

[Urethra Franklin]

A lot of good options here, but I went with the Bears.

I think you can discount the Sixers because they're quite obviously tanking (and they don't have Joel Embiid.)

The Knicks are up there because of the money they're paying both 'Melo and the Zen Master and their insistence on running the triangle despite not having either MJ or Shaq and Kobe in their prime.

The Oilers are also a fine choice and will continue to be terrible as long as Kevin Lowe is around.

And the 'Skins, too, because of Dan Snyder and RGIII's awful play, his relationship with Gruden and what it cost to obtain him in the first place.

I picked the Bears because Mel Tucker should have been fired last year, the money tied up in a massively mediocre Jay Cutler, who can't make an offence with Brandon Marshall, Alshon Jeffrey, Martellus Bennett and Matt Forte work.

[MolotovMocktail]

The Raiders. Crap stadium, owner threatening to move the team unless he gets a new one, no money, public or private, available for a new one, the exact opposite of talent on the field, and a violent fanbase that makes Eagles fans look like a polo crowd.

[ICBM]

Dec 24, 2014 2:33:00 GMT -5 MolotovMocktail said:

The Raiders. Crap stadium, owner threatening to move the team unless he gets a new one, no money, public or private, available for a new one, the exact opposite of talent on the field, and a violent fanbase that makes Eagles fans look like a polo crowd.

And to complete the dumpster fire, nobody wants to own the responsibility of how it happened or what to do with it...let it burn. San Antonio Raiders...I like it

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Dec 24, 2014 0:33:10 GMT -5 Jeff Mangum PI said:

Washington. Shit team, insane owner, racist name. They need to just move to LA and start over.

The only sports thing I'm aware of in this thread is that apparently the NFL has banned any teams from moving to L.A. any time soon for some reason.

That, and the Jets suck.

[Allie Kitsune]

Their record doesn't shot it yet, but from a current snapshot of the organization, I have to throw in a vote for the Pittsburgh Penguins.

The Mumps, Thyroid Cancer, Blood Clots... 19 players out with injury or illness (or both, in the case of Beau Bennett)

They don't have enough remaining players to ice a full complement of forwards anymore, and even when they did, they had zero wing depth.

They've taken to loading their team up with pests (Steve Downie, Bobby Farnham, Robert Bortuzzo) to the point where they're the most penalized team in the league by a WIDE margin.

Nobody wanted to coach the team in the offseason, and Mike Johnston was their Plan C or Plan D.

[Deleted]

The Oilers have the lowest winning percentage of all those teams of the past 15 years which is incredible since I was sure The Detroit Lions would be the team especially with their winless season. Guess who was in charge 15 years ago? Hint he's the same guy running the team

[suave]

The Raiders. This team has been at or very close to the bottom since like 2006.

[StuntGranny®]

The way this offseason is shaping up, the Atlanta Braves.

Outside of them, though? Yeah, it's gotta be Washington.

[Push R Truth]

Washington Generals

[HMARK Center]

The Knicks and Jets being on there reminds me of when fans in this area (NYC/TriState) are at their dumbest: when they watch our teams around here fail spectacularly all the time, but want them to keep doing the same exact things that cause them to fail, over and over again.

Many fans around here are under the delusion that "Dis is NOO YAWK, we deserve da best play-uhs!", and thus every freaking offseason it becomes about "sign all the biggest free agents!", or "trade everybody on the team for everybody we like! Don't worry, we're a New York team, they'll take our garbage for their best talent!".

Meanwhile, how well has that treated that majority of our franchises around here? The Jets and Knicks are just horrendous; no Super Bowl appearance for the Jets since winning SB III, only a couple of NBA Finals trips for the Knicks since winning it all in 1973. The Rangers are in decent shape at the moment, but they've still won 1 Stanley Cup championship in 70 years, and are only in good shape now because they stopped trading away all of their young talent. My beloved Mets have consistently won the back pages of the Daily News and New York Post sports pages over the past 20 years in December by signing or trading for whatever shiny new toy is on the market during the offseason (Bobby Bonilla, Bret Saberhagen, Roberto Alomar, Mo Vaughn...I need to stop now), but over those 20 years they've earned exactly 3 playoff appearances and one solitary National League pennant. The Nets just about never rise above mediocrity, but that's a sorry tale all its own.

Now teams like the Mets are finally trying to do things the right way (granted, the Mets' awful finances are forcing them to do it), and fans are screaming and whining for them to start trading for older, injury prone players again. Because it's worked out SO FREAKING WELL before, right fellas?

This crap works for the Yankees because they can grotesquely outspend any other team in Major League Baseball, at least until the Dodgers matched them recently; if the Yankees sign an old dude who falls apart, they can just sign somebody new to replace him the next year, no questions asked. The Devils were successful for a long time due to building from within (guess we're finally in their down cycle now), while the Giants miraculous Super Bowl wins in recent years have bought them some serious goodwill.

Still, New Yorkers like to play the "City of Champions" card, yet the bulk of our teams here consistently suck, or fail to rise above mediocrity, and it's usually because idiot front offices for these teams and awful owners (Dolans, Wilpons, Woody Johnson, the various Islanders owners, etc.) try to do things to appease idiot fans during the offseason instead of putting a damn eye on the prize of winning year-in and year-out. Thank God the Mets aren't listening to WFAN callers anymore, but teams like the Jets and Knicks have a long, LONG way to go.