Bacon Posted December 29, 2008 Share Posted December 29, 2008 On one hand, you have a team that managed to make history today by being the first to fail 16 times in a row. On the other, you have one of the most hyped up teams in recent memory managing to miss the playoffs. Tough choice, I must say. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birdlives Posted December 29, 2008 Share Posted December 29, 2008 I'd love to say the cowboys but it has to be the 0-16 lions. No one has ever failed more epically. Hype is what it is but the reality to most educated football fans were that the cowboys were very much overrated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Santana_Fan Posted December 29, 2008 Share Posted December 29, 2008 This is tough. Nobody expects a team to lose all of their games, but nobody expects the Lions to do much of anything. On the other hand...every offseason, the Cowboys are selected to, NOT ONLY go to the Superbowl, but to win it, almost every year. They are over-hyped. They were putting Romo sits to pee in the same sentence with Brady and Manning (two QB's who win clutch games). I don't know what else to say. Well, at least the Cowboys play in a harder division. Other than going 13-3 last year, the Cowboys haven't done anything deserving of so much hype. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DWinzit Posted December 29, 2008 Share Posted December 29, 2008 Lions weren't supposed to be good. The Cowboys were SB bound. :rotflmao: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bacon Posted December 29, 2008 Author Share Posted December 29, 2008 If Norv manages to blow it tonight, this poll could be very close down the stretch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spartacus87 Posted December 29, 2008 Share Posted December 29, 2008 I'd love to say the cowboys but it has to be the 0-16 lions. No one has ever failed more epically. Hype is what it is but the reality to most educated football fans were that the cowboys were very much overrated. Agreed.As much as we can joke on the Cowboys for their Titanic-like failure, the Lions went the historical distance today. The absolutely most miserable locker room in America this afternoon. I actually feel bad for a lot of those guys. This is stuck with him for history now, and it's not like it's all their fault. Bad coaching and horrible FO management have been building up to this. Some of the players were calling today "their Super Bowl" with the amount of effort they'd put in to try and win it. Guys like Calvin Johnson and Ernie Sims, very talented young players, have to endure a season like this. I can't imagine how miserable that must be for their fans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redskin4ever Posted December 29, 2008 Share Posted December 29, 2008 This is a great question. Although my hatred for the cowboys wants me to vote for that, no one has ever lost 16 in a season. I know expectations in Millen-Land were very low, but still no one has ever done that. But I will say that it will be more fun to watch the blowup in Dallas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redskin4ever Posted December 29, 2008 Share Posted December 29, 2008 If Norv manages to blow it tonight, this poll could be very close down the stretch. I agree and reserve my right to change my vote if the Norv's can't hang on and win tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teller Posted December 29, 2008 Share Posted December 29, 2008 The Cowboys were all but a consensus to win the Super Bowl, especially after Brady went down. And after today.....hahahahaha..... Cowboys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcnativenerd Posted December 29, 2008 Share Posted December 29, 2008 I'm gonna wait for the end of the Chargers game. Right now, I'm gonna say the Lions because a pro team is NEVER supposed to lose all their games, unless they're a new expansion team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f_trizzy Posted December 29, 2008 Share Posted December 29, 2008 When I first read the title I thought "don't be ridiculous" but when you really think about it, it's a tough call. I mean yeah, no one expected the Lions (or probably any other team) to go 0-16 back in August. But you certainly weren't booking their flight to Tampa like everyone was doing for Dallas. I guess you still have to say Detroit just because it's never been done before in the history of the league. I mean, you really have to be a flat out horrible team to not win a single game in the NFL today. With the parity we have today, every week you see upsets. Look at our game against the Rams. We dominated them in every facet of the game yet a handful of lucky bounces went their way and they pulled out the win. To be bad enough to offset just plain old luck...well thats pretty impressive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NOVA2Tampa Posted December 29, 2008 Share Posted December 29, 2008 Lions weren't supposed to be good. The Cowboys were SB bound. :rotflmao: DINGDINGDING...Winner!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeMarco Murray 29 Posted December 29, 2008 Share Posted December 29, 2008 No team has ever gone 0-16. Teams have gone 9-7 and missed the playoffs plenty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bacon Posted December 29, 2008 Author Share Posted December 29, 2008 Chargers responded well to higher stakes, unlike a certain QB we know. Still, it's Norv. I expect that option to receive a few more votes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
speedmike Posted December 29, 2008 Share Posted December 29, 2008 I remember hearing somewhere that the Lions had the toughest schedule in the NFL this year. Not terribly difficult to achieve considering they gave each opponent a win, but watching the Lions play several times this year -- I'm not even sure they were the worst team in the league. I feel bad for the entire organization, they had the opportunity to win at least six different games this year and they came out fighting almost every week. I think they could have played the Browns today and mopped the floor with them. The Cowboys issues are completely insane -- you try to look at some way to upgrade the players they have, and it really seems like they have nowhere to improve talent wise. But yet they still get absolutely floored earlier today. Unbelievable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IbleedBnG83 Posted December 29, 2008 Share Posted December 29, 2008 This is the biggest hater Cowboy thread ever. I hate the Cowboys but lets be serious. The Lions are the first team to go 0-16 in the history of the NFL. The Cowboys are 9-7 and just missed the playoffs!!!! The overhyped Cowboys stems from the media, not from the team. Get real. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fire3fighter4 Posted December 29, 2008 Share Posted December 29, 2008 Lions weren't supposed to be good. The Cowboys were SB bound. :rotflmao: get real. I hate the cowboys but plenty people have been picked to go to the superbowl and been far from it. no one has ever gone 0-16. EVER. Lions win this easily. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bacon Posted December 29, 2008 Author Share Posted December 29, 2008 This is the biggest hater Cowboy thread ever. I hate the Cowboys but lets be serious. The Lions are the first team to go 0-16 in the history of the NFL. The Cowboys are 9-7 and just missed the playoffs!!!! The overhyped Cowboys stems from the media, not from the team. Get real. It all comes down to that old question. "What team would you rather be a fan of; one that's horrible every single year and worthy of only the lowest expectations, or a team that's playoff caliber, but manages to disappoint every single season, without exception?" The Lions were so bad that they made history, but no one expected them to win more than 5-6 games. The Cowboys were alleged SB contenders and managed to validate every single criticism that's been thrown at them over the past three seasons, not to mention closing their stadium on the worst note imaginable. The Lions underperformed to a greater level if you look at their record vs. last year, but the Cowboys were the bigger disappointment overall. Again, I don't see how this is such an easy question to answer, and apparently, the forum at large doesn't agree either, as the results show it to be about a tie at this point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C26 Run Posted December 29, 2008 Share Posted December 29, 2008 We weren't expecting much from the Lions. They weren't the SB picks this year. They don't have a hot, young QB that plays like Favre. :dallasuck Dallas was supposed to be the dominant D once again but they fell short because of there own insecurities. :helmet: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fire3fighter4 Posted December 29, 2008 Share Posted December 29, 2008 Again, I don't see how this is such an easy question to answer, and apparently, the forum at large doesn't agree either, as the results show it to be about a tie at this point. theres one flaw in your logic. this is a redskins forum filled with thousands of people who are biased against the cowboys. The fact that its close says the lions are more pathetic hands down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bacon Posted December 29, 2008 Author Share Posted December 29, 2008 theres one flaw in your logic.this is a redskins forum filled with thousands of people who are biased against the cowboys. The fact that its close says the lions are more pathetic hands down. This is a fair point. But hey, this stuff is subjective. There isn't a scientific formula for failure. However, if there was, I'm certain that both the Cowboys and Lions would be somehow represented. They're opposite sides of the spectrum of fail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Blue Joe Posted December 29, 2008 Share Posted December 29, 2008 I hate the Cowboys. Maybe not as much as Redskins fans do, but let's be real here. Five years from now, this will just be another failure in a long list of Cowboys' failures. This Lions' season is still going to be mentioned on occasion 30 years from now or whenever another team approaches their level of futility. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SonOfWashington Posted December 29, 2008 Share Posted December 29, 2008 Detroit didn't win. AT ALL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CM916 Posted December 29, 2008 Share Posted December 29, 2008 It's not just that the Cowboys missed the playoffs, it's that they did so in such a spectacular fashion. I beleive it was thier worst loss in decades. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DWinzit Posted December 29, 2008 Share Posted December 29, 2008 get real. I hate the cowboys but plenty people have been picked to go to the superbowl and been far from it.no one has ever gone 0-16. EVER. Lions win this easily. The Lions were a team destined to fail before the season began. Millen should have been fired a year ago but was allowed to continue his destruction until after the start of the season. If they had accidentally won one game this would not be a thread and they lost a number of games in the last two minutes. The Cowboys on the other hand were far and away the most hyped team in the NFL coming into the season as well as through the season. virtually every media outlet had them being the number one seed out of the NFC and competing in the SB. Right now those players are sitting on the edge of their bed after a miserable restless night of questions running through their mind of "WTF?" The Lions players all slept like babies!:2cents: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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