Tuesday, January 08, 2002
Who wins the Blooper Bowl?
It has been a tradition for the Gehlke Bros. at the end of each season to honor the two NawFuL teams who, thanks to their own ineptitude, have achieved what few other teams have been able to achieve: a record so pathetic that no Super Bowl-caliber team could hope to match it.
We aren't just talking mediocre; we're talking about the depths of bad. And this year you couldn't do worse than the Carolina Panthers, who after coming out swinging with a Week 1 victory proceeded to collapse as thoroughtly as the World Trade Center towers by losing their final 15 games of the regular season. Not even the Detroit Lions (known affectionately here as the "Lyin's") could match that fetid streak. The Lyin's screwed up a possible Blooper Bowl title by winning their final game of the season over the Dull-as Cowboys.
*POP QUIZ!* Anyone remember who Carolina beat this year? (See answer below.)
The AFC's Blooper Bowl finalist (and this year's runner-up) is the Buffalo Bilks. The Bilks tried hard to be a 2-14 team this season, but then they beat the Jets in Week 17 (16) to finish 3-13. Still bad enough to win the title as the AFC's worst, but not quite NawFuL enough to play to Carelesslina's low standards. And to think, George Seifert once coached the Stupor Bowl champ Niners!
So if the Raiders can lose to the Jets, who lost to Buffalo only the week before, what chance do we give the Raiders of making it out of Round 1 of the postseason? For my money? Not much. The Raiders might squeak by New York this weekend (payback for Sunday's defeat), but they'll get shelled when they have to go traveling in Week 2.
*Answer to Pop Quiz* -- Minnesota was the only team dumb enough to lose to the Pathetic Panthers.
Glenn 8-D 7:05:00 PM
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