The Houston Texans Are The Worst (Expansion) Team of All Time
John Lopez's column this morning contained this interesting, yet morbidly depressing, statistic:
"The three biggest joke expansion teams in the history of the NFL have been the New Orleans Saints, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Texans.
And of those three, the numbers say the Texans are bringing up the rear in futility, having won just 27.5 percent of their games in their first five years of existence, compared to 28.5 by the Saints over the same span and 28.9 by the Bucs."
Egad. Didn't the Buccaneers once go an entire season without winning a game? And we're worse than them? If I wasn't so hopped up on David Carr's holiday cheer right now, I'd be irate. Not only are the Texans one of the perennial laughingstocks of the NFL, they're the premier laughingstock in NFL history. We're Number One! We're Number One!
"The three biggest joke expansion teams in the history of the NFL have been the New Orleans Saints, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Texans.
And of those three, the numbers say the Texans are bringing up the rear in futility, having won just 27.5 percent of their games in their first five years of existence, compared to 28.5 by the Saints over the same span and 28.9 by the Bucs."
Egad. Didn't the Buccaneers once go an entire season without winning a game? And we're worse than them? If I wasn't so hopped up on David Carr's holiday cheer right now, I'd be irate. Not only are the Texans one of the perennial laughingstocks of the NFL, they're the premier laughingstock in NFL history. We're Number One! We're Number One!
posted by Anonymous | 10:45 AM
5 Comments:
Thanks, Laurence. I now feel slightly better. Wait a second...no, I don't.
The Texans are taking years off my life. This is hell.
Nice to see some H-Town sports blogging. LOve the site.
As to Lopez (who I think pulls arguments out of his ass regularly without any rational way to support it, like on his radio show), he might be right about the actual numbers, but the Bucs were a playoff teams within 4-5 years, good for a short time, and then brutal until the Dungy regime came into town in the late 90's. The Saints went 20 years without a playoff appearance, and then didn't actually win a playoff game for almost another decade.
The raw W-L might say the Texans are the worst (and I wouldn't disagree vehemently), but Lopez needs to stop acting like the difference between the 3 teams is huge.
Thanks for commenting, Bouj. And you're absolutely right about Lopez. He's generally insufferable. I can't even bring myself to listen to his radio show.
Did Lopez check the first five seasons of America's team?
Oops - my mistake. The Cowboys were actually just a slight bit better.
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