Top 10 Worst NFL Teams of All Time

This 13-minute explosion by the Colts equaled their TD production from the previous nine games combined.

The Jets were in it at the end, but a Donnell Thompson sack of Ken O'Brien kept New York out of field goal range and out of the game. Final score: Colts 28, Jets 27.

Jets coach Bruce Coslet summed it up by saying in The New York Times, "I thought we were beyond performing like this in this type of game. Apparently, I was wrong."

3.  1973 Houston Oilers 1-13-0

To say the Oilers season was miserable would be an understatement, as Coach Bill Peterson is fired after a 0-5 start.

The Oilers, whose record under Peterson was a humiliating 1-18, would be led the rest of the season by Hall of Fame coach Sid Gilman. However, not even Gilman could help, as the Oilers lost their next two before beating the Colts 31-27 in Baltimore for their only win of the season.

The Oilers gave up 447 points, the most in the NFL, and scored only 199.

Things were so bad in Houston that the most exciting development was the invention of the first flak jacket for football, to protect QB Dan Pastorini's ribs. (He set an NFL record for being sacked the most times in 1971, broke it in 1972, and broke it again in 1973.)

2.  2001 Detroit Lions 2-14-0

Pretty dang bad. 

You could just say the wrong man for the wrong job. 

A West Coast Offense with a team that apparently had no offense at all.  They benched their best QB, which wasn’t much to begin with, for Ty Detmer who threw seven interceptions against the Browns in one game. 

They did not bench him, though.  Surprise, surprise.  Anyhow, the Lions did extremely poorly on both sides of the ball, receiving lackluster performances from each player.

1.  1976 Buccaneers 0-14-0

Shut out five times. 

Were outscored 412-125 on the season. The average margin of victory for the opposition was 20.5 points per game, and four times during the course of the season, the competition scored 40 points or better.

John McKay, Tampa Bay's first coach, once said of the execution of the Bucs' offense, "I'm in favor of it."

Pat Toomay

One of his favorite moments was the team plane arriving home at 4 a.m. after a 49-16 loss at Oakland in Week 12.

Team officials promoted ticket sales for the inaugural season with the slogan "Bucs Fever. Catch It."

"We start to file off the plane and there are three fans at the foot of the stairs, and they're totally wasted," he said, again erupting in laughter.

"As we come down the stairs, two of them unfurl this gigantic banner of the Bucs logo, and the most inebriated of the three steps in front of the other two and he starts the chant: 'What have we got?' And all three in unison say: 'Bucs fever!' I thought I was going to cry."

There you have it, my top-10 worst teams. If you have a comment on whether or not I was right or wrong, then I would love to hear about it. Give it to me.

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