The Quest for Futility

Admit it, you all love it when a team goes winless in a season. But that is almost impossible to do nowadays. Look at it. Baseball plays 162 games and everyone is bound to win a few, the basketball season is 82 games long, so that's the same way. But in the NFL, a league with such ridiculously high talent levels, a sixteen game season leaves us the small hope of a team not winning a game in a year.

Every year we get teased. Last year, it was the Miami Dolphins. I really thought they were going to do it and they had to go and win a game on December 16th. I almost cried, and they wouldn't have been tears of joy.

But this year is different. This year, God gave us the St. Louis Rams. Possibly one of the worst looking teams the league has seen in a long time. Look at the year that they have had so far. Week one, they lost 38-3 to the Eagles. Week 2, embarrassed 41-13 by the Giants. You might say, "They've been playing good teams though and losing to them." I would agree with you except I saw their game in week 3. They lost 37-13 against the Seahawks. And the Seahawks aren't very good at all this year. They are just a straight up awful team. There really isn't any other way to put it. They just plain suck.

Another reason they look like the team that could make our dreams come true this year is that they are falling apart from the inside. The team has lost all faith in their coach Scott Linehan. He benched their franchise starting quarterback Marc Bulger and decided to start Trent Green instead. That move drew protest from one of their biggest players, Stephen Jackson. Who knows how many others felt the same as Jackson and just didn't say it. They have just given up on their coach. And if they don't want to play for the coach, what makes you think they want to play there at all?

The Rams are a disaster. They are the worst team in the NFL and they are my 0-16 pick for the 2008 NFL season. Let's just hope they don't go the way of the Dolphins last year and decide to win a game.