Post by I definitely have a cock~~~ on Dec 5, 2014 11:31:38 GMT -5
You knew it was bad. You probably guessed it was really, really bad. But this season for our two local NFL franchises is becoming something much more than that.
It's the worst.
Ever.
At least, it is right now, and unless the Jets and Giants put together a few wins over their last four games – anyone want to bet on that? – then 2014 will go down as the dumpster fire to end all dumpster fires, the epitome of putrid pigskin, the crème dela crème of crud.
And folks? We've had some ugly football seasons.
The Jets and Giants currently have a combined 5-19 record with eight games to play. The fewest wins for both teams in the same season is six, but both times that happened, in 1973 and 1976, it was during the days of the 14-game schedule.
You have to really comb the record books to find a season when the Jets and Giants had a combined winning percentage in the neighborhood of what it is now (and be sure to click through the gallery above for the top 10 worst seasons of all-time). Here are the bottom five
:
1. 2014: Jets (2-10) + Giants (3-9) = .208 winning percentage
2. 1976: Jets (3-11) + Giants (3-11) = .214 winning percentage
3. 1996: Jets (1-15) + Giants (6-10) = .218 winning percentage
4. 1973: Jets (4-10) + Giants (2-11-1) = .232 winning percentage
t-5. 1980 Jets (4-12) + Giants (4-12) = .250 winning percentage
t-5. 1995: Jets (3-13) + Giants (5-11) = .250 winning percentage
It's worth noting, in case Rex Ryan and Tom Coughlin weren't already concerned about their job security, that in the three seasons just below 2014 in that bottom five, the coaches for both teams were replaced after the season.
• In 1973, popular Jets coach Weeb Ewbank – who had won the Super Bowl four years earlier – retired after a 4-10 season, while Alex Webster was forced to resign as Giants coach after they bottomed out at 2-11-1.
• In 1976, Lou Holtz famously bolted on the Jets with a game left while the Giants fired Bill Arnsparger at midseason.
• And in 1996, Rick Kotite was given the boot after the Jets went 1-15 – arguably the worst season of any professional team in New York history – while Dan Reeves was kicked to the curb after his Giants went 6-10.
Those three seasons are 2014's chief competition for worst-ever status. It might be hard to top 1976, given that the Giants were in the middle of a 17-year postseason drought while the Jets had to watch icon Joe Namath throw 16 interceptions and just four touchdown passes in his final season with the franchise.
“If I knew the N.F.L. was this tough,” Holtz reportedly was caught muttering in the preseason, “I never would have taken the job.”
Then again, the 1973 season was a special kind of miserable, too, with both teams not only stinking it up on the field, but doing so on somebody else's field. The Jets were forced to play their first six games on the road because Shea Stadium was busy with the Mets in the World Series, while the Giants played their final five home games at the Yale Bowl as Yankee Stadium was reconstructed.
It is also fair to ask this: Can anything top the hopelessness that were the Jets under Kotite in 1996, a season that was so miserable that the Giants won six times as many games and still cleaned house?
“'I feel I've always been a bottom-line guy,” Kotite said the day he resigned. “And when you're 3-13 and 1-14, that just doesn't cut it.”
There's no definitive answer for the worst-ever season, but it makes for a good debate – one that 2014 can soon join. The two teams only have to win a couple more games to get out of this conversation, which given their schedules and overall parity in the NFL seems possible, maybe even likely.
Still: Our bumbling NFL teams are on pace with eight games left to do something truly historic, and not in a good way. Anyone want to bet against it ?
> www.nj.com/gi...ory_politi.htm
It's the worst.
Ever.
At least, it is right now, and unless the Jets and Giants put together a few wins over their last four games – anyone want to bet on that? – then 2014 will go down as the dumpster fire to end all dumpster fires, the epitome of putrid pigskin, the crème dela crème of crud.
And folks? We've had some ugly football seasons.
The Jets and Giants currently have a combined 5-19 record with eight games to play. The fewest wins for both teams in the same season is six, but both times that happened, in 1973 and 1976, it was during the days of the 14-game schedule.
You have to really comb the record books to find a season when the Jets and Giants had a combined winning percentage in the neighborhood of what it is now (and be sure to click through the gallery above for the top 10 worst seasons of all-time). Here are the bottom five
:
1. 2014: Jets (2-10) + Giants (3-9) = .208 winning percentage
2. 1976: Jets (3-11) + Giants (3-11) = .214 winning percentage
3. 1996: Jets (1-15) + Giants (6-10) = .218 winning percentage
4. 1973: Jets (4-10) + Giants (2-11-1) = .232 winning percentage
t-5. 1980 Jets (4-12) + Giants (4-12) = .250 winning percentage
t-5. 1995: Jets (3-13) + Giants (5-11) = .250 winning percentage
It's worth noting, in case Rex Ryan and Tom Coughlin weren't already concerned about their job security, that in the three seasons just below 2014 in that bottom five, the coaches for both teams were replaced after the season.
• In 1973, popular Jets coach Weeb Ewbank – who had won the Super Bowl four years earlier – retired after a 4-10 season, while Alex Webster was forced to resign as Giants coach after they bottomed out at 2-11-1.
• In 1976, Lou Holtz famously bolted on the Jets with a game left while the Giants fired Bill Arnsparger at midseason.
• And in 1996, Rick Kotite was given the boot after the Jets went 1-15 – arguably the worst season of any professional team in New York history – while Dan Reeves was kicked to the curb after his Giants went 6-10.
Those three seasons are 2014's chief competition for worst-ever status. It might be hard to top 1976, given that the Giants were in the middle of a 17-year postseason drought while the Jets had to watch icon Joe Namath throw 16 interceptions and just four touchdown passes in his final season with the franchise.
“If I knew the N.F.L. was this tough,” Holtz reportedly was caught muttering in the preseason, “I never would have taken the job.”
Then again, the 1973 season was a special kind of miserable, too, with both teams not only stinking it up on the field, but doing so on somebody else's field. The Jets were forced to play their first six games on the road because Shea Stadium was busy with the Mets in the World Series, while the Giants played their final five home games at the Yale Bowl as Yankee Stadium was reconstructed.
It is also fair to ask this: Can anything top the hopelessness that were the Jets under Kotite in 1996, a season that was so miserable that the Giants won six times as many games and still cleaned house?
“'I feel I've always been a bottom-line guy,” Kotite said the day he resigned. “And when you're 3-13 and 1-14, that just doesn't cut it.”
There's no definitive answer for the worst-ever season, but it makes for a good debate – one that 2014 can soon join. The two teams only have to win a couple more games to get out of this conversation, which given their schedules and overall parity in the NFL seems possible, maybe even likely.
Still: Our bumbling NFL teams are on pace with eight games left to do something truly historic, and not in a good way. Anyone want to bet against it ?
> www.nj.com/gi...ory_politi.htm