The Best of the Worst!

We talked last night on the podcast (which you have to listen to because its awesome) about what the worst franchise in professional sports was and I had some ideas but right now I am going to break it down in the 4 major sports of the worst and maybe the second worst in each.

Lets start with everyone's favorite, the NFL!

The worst franchise in my opinion in the NFL is the Detroit Lions. It may just be that because they are in the news for this right now that its easy to pick them but 1 playoff game in 57 years. Are you serious? The last good quarterback they had and this is very questionable was Scott Mitchell. Herman Moore was awesome and Barry Sanders could've been the best running back ever but he quit in his prime maybe because he just didn't want to play for the Lions anymore. If that is the case I think this just validates my argument even more. Its not like Detroit is a city for losers, the Red Wings, Pistons and Tigers have all won championships. The Lions have never even been close! Oh and by the way, its doesn't look like its going to happen anytime soon either!

The only other two that may take the cake here are the Oakland Raiders, although they have been to a few Superbowls, and the Arizona Cardinals because they have never really played an important game either. I may put the Houston Texans into this argument in a few years but they are too young right now to have in here. The Cleveland Browns left and came back so that creates a big grey area so I will leave them alone here also.

Lets move on to Major League Baseball.

This one is harder because baseball has been around for so long and each team has made some sort of run in their long histories so I am going to go with recent histories here and say that there are three that are really close to bottom and really hard to split.

The three are the Texas Rangers, the Kansas City Royals and the Pittsburgh Pirates. None of these teams have even been close to competitive in the last 15 years. I think I would have to put (my favorite team) Texas at the bottom because they have never played for a world series ever! The other two have won some even though they were a really long time ago. It depresses me to write this actually but I still hold out hope that someday maybe I will get to see a game in Texas in October.

The Rays were close too but with the season they have had this year it makes the last 5 years of waiting all worth it down at the Trop.

Now to the Hard courts and no not Tennis, the NBA.

Charlotte is too young of franchise for me to group them in here so that leaves 3. I am still debating as I type but the three are: the Memphis (formerly Vancouver) Grizzlies, the Los Angeles Clippers and the New York Knicks. Willis Reid may save the Knicks here again, actually, wait, he is coming out of the tunnel now and yes, Willis Reid just kept the Knicks out of the bottom of this list. The leaves is up to the Grizzlies or the Clippers for last place here. Lets go to the Lottery for this one. We will spin the big wheel and just see what comes out. What do we have? Well fans, the Clippers had the highest percentage chance of being the worst franchise in the NBA but well, the balls were spun and just like always the team with the highest percentage didn't win and the Memphis Grizzlies came out as the worst franchise in the NBA with the Clippers coming out second.

Whats the 4th major sport you ask? Its Hockey you idiots, well its really the NBA on this website so you better get used it!

GM is the resident hockey expert here fans so he may know better then I. I am just getting into it and really do like it so lets give it a shot.

OK, from my limited knowledge of the game I am going to go with the Florida Panthers here. I will be totally honest about something. I went to nhl.com and actually had to hold my mouse on some of the logos because I didn't recognize them to match them to the teams.

So, there were some teams like the Predators and the Thrashers and the Blue Jackets that in my mind are too young to even consider here.

The Panthers are it and here is why. They have only made the playoffs like once or twice in their existence and it didn't seem last year like they are close to making it soon. There are no other franchises that have had this long of a time of losing and not really doing anything to change it. Again the GM will be able to give you more information on this if you would like it but for now this is my decision and I am sticking too it!

So there ya have it, the worst franchises in the 4 major sports!

Congratulations! (I think)


The GMs Thoughts:

NFL - Oakland is the worst mainly because Al Davis is an idiot. If he wasn't there maybe the team would be relevant because there is some good tradition. He is running this team into the ground currently and I don't know if they will come back until he is gone.

MLB - I would have to say the Kansas City Royals are the worst. My reason would be that they don't even produce any young talent. At least Pittsburgh has traded away some younger guys that have helped other teams. The Royals can't do anything right.

NBA - Currently I have to go with the Knicks. They are a joke and aren't getting any better soon.

NHL - Hockey is tougher but I think I will go with Toronto for right now. This could and probably will change by the end of the year. But I look more at the state of the franchise more than history or recent success. And Toronto doesn't have real good prospects currently. LA, St. Louis, and Florida were considered but they are all developing good players and could actually make the playoffs this year.