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Shane Gray provides special Rams commentaries on 101sports.com. Follow him on Twitter: @ShaneGmoSTLRams.
Unfortunately, St. Louis NFL fans have suffered through arguably the second-worst NFL legacy of all time.
If that were not enough, a case could be made that the St. Louis Rams just finished providing the Gateway City and Rams Nation with history’s single most disastrous nine years of football ever.
Over the past nine seasons (2005-13), the Rams’ winning percentage of .299 was the worst in the NFL. In fact, the Rams and Oakland Raiders were the only franchises that failed to produce a single winning season within the aforementioned time frame.
To put the Rams’ recent struggles in another light, the baseball Cardinals could have averaged 100 losses per year over the past 10 seasons and still generated a significantly better winning percentage (.375) than that of the Rams.
In fact, if the Cardinals would have dropped 110 games per season over the last 10, their winning percentage of .321 would have still trumped that of the city’s professional football franchise.
In terms of reaching the postseason during the above-mentioned span, the Rams failed to punch a single playoff ticket. The Buffalo Bills, Cleveland Browns and Oakland Raiders also failed to reach the postseason party during the last nine years, but all won more regular-season games than St. Louis did.
While the above from the Rams’ last near decennium was bad, the final two factors move the needle from horrendous to historically horrific.
(Please check out the remainder of the brief read for the remaining reasons why the multifaceted problems of the last nine seasons equate to the worst in league history):
http://www.101sports.com/2014/01/22...isastrous-nine-years-might-worst-nfl-history/
Unfortunately, St. Louis NFL fans have suffered through arguably the second-worst NFL legacy of all time.
If that were not enough, a case could be made that the St. Louis Rams just finished providing the Gateway City and Rams Nation with history’s single most disastrous nine years of football ever.
Over the past nine seasons (2005-13), the Rams’ winning percentage of .299 was the worst in the NFL. In fact, the Rams and Oakland Raiders were the only franchises that failed to produce a single winning season within the aforementioned time frame.
To put the Rams’ recent struggles in another light, the baseball Cardinals could have averaged 100 losses per year over the past 10 seasons and still generated a significantly better winning percentage (.375) than that of the Rams.
In fact, if the Cardinals would have dropped 110 games per season over the last 10, their winning percentage of .321 would have still trumped that of the city’s professional football franchise.
In terms of reaching the postseason during the above-mentioned span, the Rams failed to punch a single playoff ticket. The Buffalo Bills, Cleveland Browns and Oakland Raiders also failed to reach the postseason party during the last nine years, but all won more regular-season games than St. Louis did.
While the above from the Rams’ last near decennium was bad, the final two factors move the needle from horrendous to historically horrific.
(Please check out the remainder of the brief read for the remaining reasons why the multifaceted problems of the last nine seasons equate to the worst in league history):
http://www.101sports.com/2014/01/22...isastrous-nine-years-might-worst-nfl-history/