Let's debate who's team's fans have suffered the most at the hands of their awful helmet-donning overlords.

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28. (tie) Pittsburgh Steelers
You know the inane "How does it feel?" questions sideline reporters are forced to ask after a team loses the Super Bowl? Back when Lynn Swann drew that duty, we always thought it would be great if he phrased it this way:

"How does it feel to lose a Super Bowl? No, the producer in the truck isn't telling me to ask you that question -- I really want to know. I mean, I played in the Super Bowl four times and we always won. When we were celebrating and dousing ourselves with champagne and singing and dancing and thinking about how this meant we would all go into the Hall of Fame, I always wondered how the other team felt. So, that's why I'm asking you now. How does it feel to lose the biggest game of your life? Pretty bad, I'm guessing."

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

I have. Me. I have been tormented by the men who don the Honolulu blue and silver; the gridiron gladiators who have never been to a Super Bowl (one of only three non-expansion teams w/ that dubious honor) and have only won one single playoff game in 40+ years.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

As both a Lions and Browns fan, my misery index approaches Khartoum-like levels.

― laurence kansas (lawrence kansas), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

Yikes. I really can't say I have any complaints next to those stories.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 18:24 (nineteen years ago)

I mean...Lions and the Browns?? Are you also a Cubs fan?

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

I haven't followed the Cubs since Dave Kingman went away.

My life has bottomed out to the point where I'm betting on the Steelers.

― laurence kansas (lawrence kansas), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 18:32 (nineteen years ago)

Is this really suffering or masochism at this point, then?

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 18:39 (nineteen years ago)

There are a lot of Bills fans in Toronto so there was a fair bit of suffering around here in the 90's. It slotted in nicely next to the usual Leafs-related suffering, with the Leafs making the final four twice around the same time as the Bills period of "can't quite win the big one" dominance. I felt sorry for the Bills -- they were a great team and wouldn't have minded seeing them finally win one. This attitude pissed off the Bills fans because as a Pats fan I was supposed to despise my divisional rivals lest I be viewed as a pussy (you know, more than I already was for being the only Pats fan in the city). Who's laughing now, BITCHEZZZZZ?

― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 20:35 (nineteen years ago)

ts: thurman thomas vs dougie gilmour

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 20:58 (nineteen years ago)

wtf i can't find a "we believe" t-shirt anywhere on the internet. guess they gave up hope.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 21:53 (nineteen years ago)

bills are too low on that list, cardinals probably are too

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 21:57 (nineteen years ago)

4 years in a row is the kinda cruel shit that no one should have to endure. I think I'd take a curse over that.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 22:19 (nineteen years ago)

The Cardinals would be higher, but they would have to have fans to have fan misery. Bidwell still has to be the worse owner in the NFL.

I don't know about the Bills being higher, after all they were at least good for ten years in a row. Norwood missed a 47 yard field goal with a slight wind, it was not a chip shot and that part does not get remembered.

Carolina also had a player get killed in a wreck, Rae Carruth and a Superbowl winning coach lead them to a 1-15 season in the span of a year. That is a pretty bad.

The Bears have some of the worse owners in football, definitely the worse for a cherry franchise, but that is true of every team in that town (even the Sox who somehow won it all this year).

The Falcons have never had consecutive winning seasons, that is pretty bad. Even the Saints have had two winning years in a row.

― earlnash, Tuesday, 10 January 2006 23:33 (nineteen years ago)

Isn't there any kind of rule that says the NFL can remove an owner? Like, just hostile-takeover anything to do with Bidwell. Him and his stupid bow tie, who the hell does he think he is, Tucker Carlson? Well...he's not. He's crap. I had to "watch" football on the radio like 75% of the time I lived in AZ because they could NOT SELL OUT A SINGLE GAME, EVER. So not only were the Cards blocked out but so was everything else because of those stupid, stupid rules about blacking out everything if a team doesn't sell out the game. OTOH tickets to the games only cost about $0.75 so I went to the Giants games (this was back when the Cards were still confusingly "NFC East").

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

I'm still scarred by seeing the Buddy Ryan coached Cardinals play a dismal Falcons squad in the Georgia Dome. Almost put me off football forever.

― laurence kansas (lawrence kansas), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

Oh jesus christ Buddy Ryan, don't even start me on that sonofabitch.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

Was Plummer on the Cardinals when Ryan still coached or was he after Ryan? TEAM OF MISERY.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

I swear Chris Chandler quarterbacked both teams that day.

― laurence kansas (lawrence kansas), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

OH MY GOD CHRIS CHANDLER

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 15:20 (nineteen years ago)

I just checked and the QB's for the Cardinals that year were:
Steve Beurlein
Jim McMahon(!)
Jay Schroeder

― laurence kansas (lawrence kansas), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

this is the greatest website ever

http://www.pro-football-reference.com/

― laurence kansas (lawrence kansas), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

Chris Chandelier lol rofl

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

Oh god I remember that Jim McMahon debacle too. I mean the dude was like 80 at that point, what the hell.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

i am still an Oilers fan :(

― ryan (ryan), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

Some of my first memories of following the NFL was the Houston Oilers with Dan Pastorini, Earl Campbell and Bum Phillips. I remember watching the Steelers beat them to go to their last Superbowl in the AFC title game in 79. That same year I remember watching the Cowboys with Roger Staubach in his last game get beat by the Rams in the divisional playoff game.

― earlnash, Wednesday, 11 January 2006 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

Ah, '79. The year Monte Clark coached the Lions to a 2-14 record. I think the fans demanded that even the road games be blacked out.

― laurence kansas (lawrence kansas), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 21:12 (nineteen years ago)

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