List #2

The worst teams in professional sports.

I include teams that I have never seen make the playoffs in my 17 years of watching sports, or even worse have had fewer than 2 or 3 winning seasons in that span. They might never win, and a few even seem to be in constant danger of being moved to another city or contracted (which means they won't exist at all anymore). Yes, this happens. I will refrain from using the phrase, "The Cream of the Crap". Also, I'm exluding any NHL (hockey) teams as I am not educated enough on this front and truly, "psshhhhh" describes how I feel about all that business.

Football:

Detroit Lions
Cleveland Browns
Arizona Cardinals
Houston Texans

The NFL is one of the best sports as far as having random teams make the playoffs, and I believe it's even possible that the first 2 listed above did it once in the 90's. The Texans are a relatively new team by comparison, and perhaps should have been exluded from the list. I think I've seen 30 of the 32 teams make the dance at some point. *Football has 12 playoff teams each year.

Basketball:

This one is a bit tougher, as 16 of the 30 teams in the NBA make the playoffs every year, and one or two really insane players can help out a crappier team much more than in football or baseball.

Atlanta Hawks--They made the playoffs last year, but it was as a bottom seed and with a
losing record. Prior to that, they hadn't done anything since at least the early
90's, and certainly haven't had a title sine the 80's.

Charlotte Bobcats--A new team, but still pretty bad.

Memphis Grizzlies--I think they've only been around since the mid 90's, but it's been at
least 10 years, and the other team that came into the league the same
time as them (Toronto Raptors) have made the playoffs more than once.

Even bottom dwellers like the Bucks, Blazers, Kings, TWolves and Sonics all had some amazing runs. Honorbale mentions inclue the Golden State Warriors and LA Clippers.

Baseball:

Montreal Expos/Washington Nationals-My favorite team growing up. I had their hat, baseball cards, and even saw an interleague game between them and the Baltimore Orioles. I never saw them make the playoffs, but during the strike shortened season of 1994, they had the best record in baseball at 74-40. Yes, 74-40!! It's really to sad a subject for me to discuss any longer. Here is a brief list of former Expos players: Pedro Martinez, Randy Johnson, Vlad Guerrero, Andre Dawson, Tim Raines, Andres Galaragga, Larry Walker, Moises Alou, Cliff Lee, and Grady Sizemore.

Milwaukee Brewers
Kansas City Royals
Cincinnati Reds
Pittsburgh Pirates

The last three teams are arguably the biggest losers in all of sports the last 15 years. This baseball talk is making me thirsty. I have nothing good to say about Billy Crystal except that when he was young, he wasn't that ugly. Toodles.