{"id":77368,"date":"2023-05-30T16:58:42","date_gmt":"2023-05-30T16:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/articles.runyourpool.com\/?p=77368"},"modified":"2023-06-01T14:52:13","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T14:52:13","slug":"the-worst-franchises-in-the-nfl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.runyourpool.com\/articles\/2023\/05\/30\/the-worst-franchises-in-the-nfl\/","title":{"rendered":"The Worst Franchises In The NFL"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The NFL has a rich history that dates back more than a century ago. Only a handful of the founding members are still around, and many new additions have been made since the league\u2019s inception. Some of those franchises have catapulted themselves to the top of the pecking order over the decades, while others have banished themselves to the basement, serving primarily as literal and metaphorical punching bags for opposing teams and fans. This article is about those franchises, the worst ones the NFL employs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To determine this list, I took into account several factors; Super Bowl wins, total championships, winning percentages, franchise age, and more came into account. I tried not to punish the newest franchises too harshly for failing to achieve the same as older outfits while still considering the opportunities they didn\u2019t take. I kept in mind the teams that won big before the Super Bowl was a thing \u2013 those successes happened in the NFL, and they must be respected. It\u2019s not a perfect science to weigh their inconsistent aspects against one another, but I did my best, unlike some of the franchises featured here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you\u2019re a fan of one of these teams, please don\u2019t be mad at me. I\u2019m not the reason your team has lost a lot of games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/teams\/index.htm\"><em>All records as of May 13, 2023.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The NFL\u2019s Worst Franchises: When the Gridiron Goes Wrong<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>5: Jacksonville Jaguars<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Championships:<\/strong> 0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Super Bowl wins:<\/strong> 0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Super Bowl appearances:<\/strong> 0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>All-time record:<\/strong> 189-261-0 (.420)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Playoff appearances:<\/strong> 8<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>All-time playoff record:<\/strong> 8-8 (.500)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Notable players:<\/strong> Jimmy Smith, Fred Taylor, Mark Brunell<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jacksonville joined the NFL in 1995, and considering the context, it experienced a good amount of success in its earliest days. With Tom Coughlin in charge, the Jags were in their first playoffs in their second season, and that began a run of four-straight postseason bids. The team even made runs to the AFC Championship Game in 1996 and 1999.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rxzqu4evOsg\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It took 23 seasons for Jacksonville to come up with another four playoff appearances. Since the successes starting off, the Jaguars have been largely brutal. Between 2008 and 2016, the franchise not only missed the playoffs every season but had a winning percentage of .292 (42-102). After a surprise run to the 2017 AFC Championship Game that almost ended in Jacksonville\u2019s first-ever Super Bowl showing, the Jags reverted back to their losing ways, amassing a 15-50 (.231) record from 2018 through 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With Trevor Lawrence under center, perhaps the future will be brighter in Florida\u2019s northernmost NFL outfit. The Jags were certainly better last season than in years past. But with the second-worst all-time winning percentage in the league and failure to escape the list of four organizations to have never played in the Super Bowl, the Jaguars have to be considered among the worst NFL franchises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>4: Houston Texans<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Championships:<\/strong> 0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Super Bowl wins:<\/strong> 0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Super Bowl appearances:<\/strong> 0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>All-time record:<\/strong> 142-195-1 (.422)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Playoff appearances:<\/strong> 6<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>All-time playoff record:<\/strong> 4-6 (.400)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Notable players:<\/strong> J.J. Watt, Andre Johnson, Arian Foster<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Texans are the most recent addition to the NFL, and that has been taken into consideration with this ranking. This is the least-accomplished franchise in the league, but with only 22 seasons under its belt, there has to be some benefit of the doubt given. That\u2019s why the Texans aren\u2019t the worst NFL franchise ever \u2013 it\u2019s certainly not because of much that they\u2019ve done on the field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/56rp5rnWUik\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Houston has the fewest playoff appearances, fourth-worst playoff winning percentage, and third-worst all-time winning percentage in the NFL. The Texans won a game in four of their six postseason trips, but they abruptly exited in the Divisional Round each time, leaving them as the only franchise in the league to have never played in a conference championship contest, AFC or NFC. Houston holds the sixth-longest conference title game drought in the NFL.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It wasn\u2019t until their 10th season that the Texans showed up for their first playoffs, and they spent most of their first nine years in the AFC South basement. Houston had a much better time in the 2010s with some division titles, but a lack of any serious contention for the Super Bowl has always had the franchise on the outside, looking in. The Texans returned to the doldrums lately and have won just 11 total games in the last three campaigns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>3: Cincinnati Bengals<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Championships:<\/strong> 0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Super Bowl wins:<\/strong> 0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Super Bowl appearances:<\/strong> 3 (Losses in 1981, 1988, 2021)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>All-time record:<\/strong> 385-463-5 (.454)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Playoff appearances:<\/strong> 16<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>All-time playoff record:<\/strong> 10-16 (.385)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Notable players:<\/strong> Anthony Munoz, Ken Anderson, Boomer Esiason<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In their first eight NFL seasons after debuting in 1968, the Bengals appeared in the playoffs three times, a decent introduction for an expansion franchise. But they didn\u2019t win their first postseason contest until their 14th season in 1981. In that campaign, Cincinnati defeated the Bills and Chargers, in that order, to reach Super Bowl XVI against the 49ers. It was the Niners\u2019 first Super Bowl appearance as well after a mostly-abysmal 35 years of existence up to that point. The game ended in San Francisco\u2019s favor, 26-21, and became the launching pad for the franchise to become one of the NFL\u2019s<a href=\"https:\/\/articles.runyourpool.com\/2023\/05\/19\/most-successful-nfl-franchises-of-all-time\/\"> most successful<\/a>; the same cannot be said for Cincinnati.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Bengals returned to the Super Bowl in the 1989 season after failing to reach the postseason in the five prior campaigns. Again, they met the 49ers, and again, a close contest went against Cincinnati. San Francisco celebrated its fourth championship of the decade after scoring with 34 seconds left in regulation to take the final 20-16 lead. The Bengals led at the half, 13-6, but that didn\u2019t save them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kQdV7ZrjMSs\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cincinnati missed the playoffs every season from 1991 through 2004, which is still<a href=\"https:\/\/champsorchumps.us\/drought\/longest-nfl-playoff-drought#tab-drought-historic\"> tied for the 12th-longest playoff drought in NFL history<\/a>. During that span, the Bengals put together seven seasons of four wins or fewer. The team finally snapped that skid in 2005 and appeared in seven playoffs between then and 2015. The problem was, the Bengals couldn\u2019t for the life of them win a game in the postseason \u2013 Cincinnati lost in the Wild Card Round in all of those attempts, with healthy doses of bad injury luck, diabolical late-game management, and pure ineptitude in the mix.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another half-decade without seeing the playoffs came to a close in 2021 when the contemporary core led the Bengals back to their first Super Bowl in more than 30 years. It was another painful ending for Cincinnati, though this time to SoCal\u2019s Rams rather than NorCal\u2019s 49ers. The Bengals followed that up with an AFC Championship Game appearance in 2022, and their short-term outlook seems positive for the first time in a long time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But that doesn\u2019t change the long history of appalling play, embarrassing losses, and zero championships. The Bengals have the second-worst all-time playoff winning percentage in the NFL (.385). Cincinnati has failed to advance a round in almost 70 percent of its postseason appearances. The franchise has had a long while to win a Super Bowl, and it hasn\u2019t happened once.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>2: Atlanta Falcons<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Championships:<\/strong> 0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Super Bowl wins:<\/strong> 0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Super Bowl appearances:<\/strong> 2 (Losses in 1998 and 2016)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>All-time record:<\/strong> 383-493-6 (.437)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Playoff appearances:<\/strong> 14<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>All-time playoff record:<\/strong> 10-14 (.417)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Notable players:<\/strong> Deion Sanders, Michael Vick, Julio Jones<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Atlanta joined the NFL in 1966, the same year as Super Bowl I. The Falcons didn\u2019t play in it, though, nor have they played in many in their 57 seasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The franchise initially appeared in the playoffs in 1978, the first of three postseason showings in five seasons. The most notable was in 1980 \u2013 a 12-4 record led to the team\u2019s first division title and the No. 1 seed in the NFC. But that didn\u2019t matter when the Cowboys came to town and ended Atlanta\u2019s season, 30-27, in the Divisional Round. This remained the best season in Falcons history well into the \u201890s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After only making the playoffs twice between 1983 and 1997, Atlanta was back with a vengeance unlike anything ever seen before in 1998. The Falcons won a franchise-best 14 games in the regular season and wrapped up a bye to the Divisional Round as the NFC\u2019s second seed. Atlanta outdid San Francisco, 20-18, to reach its first conference championship game and a date with the top-seeded, one-loss Minnesota Vikings. The Falcons overcame a 10-point deficit in the fourth quarter of that contest, sending it to overtime with a 16-yard touchdown pass with 57 seconds on the clock. A 38-yard kick from Morten Andersen in the extra period completed the comeback, 30-27, and punched the team\u2019s ticket to its first Super Bowl ever. Then Atlanta didn\u2019t show up in their first-ever Super Bowl, the Broncos won their second-straight championship, and the saga continued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Falcons made the playoffs a lot more in the 2000s and 2010s than in the decades before, but they\u2019ve mostly been immaterial. In eight playoff appearances between 2002 and 2017, the Falcons reached three NFC Championship Games and one Super Bowl: in 2016, which turned out to become one of the most embarrassing losses in the history of sports championships. For 25 different reasons, I will not go into any further into detail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gY8exXZgyqc\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s now been five campaigns in a row without advancing out of the regular season for Atlanta, and it seems that the team has reverted back to something more similar to its earliest state. The Falcons\u2019 all-time winning percentage is fifth-worst in the NFL, their playoff history ranks among the bottom of the league, and zero Super Bowl victories in nearly six decades of opportunities is a poor track record. At 57 years old, Atlanta is the league\u2019s oldest franchise to have never won a championship. Put all that together, and you have one of the worst franchises in the NFL.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>1: Arizona Cardinals<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Championships:<\/strong> 2 (1925 and 1947)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Super Bowl wins:<\/strong> 0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Super Bowl appearances:<\/strong> 1 (Loss in 2008)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>All-time record:<\/strong> 581-790-41 (.424)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Playoff appearances:<\/strong> 11<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>All-time playoff record:<\/strong> 7-10 (.412)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Notable players:<\/strong> Larry Fitzgerald, Larry Wilson, Charley Trippi<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Cardinals are one the oldest franchises in the league\u2019s history. They\u2019re also the worst franchise the NFL has.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 1920, the Chicago Cardinals were one of the founding members of the American Professional Football Conference (APFC), the initial name of the organization that rebranded as the National Football League two years later. In 1925, the Cardinals were champions of the young NFL by virtue of their 11-2-1 record. Then came a very dark period where the team struggled to reach .500 nearly every year from 1926 through 1946. In the mix were some truly miserable seasons, including six one-win campaigns and back-to-back 0-10 records in 1943 and 1944. That 1944 season was especially strange, with World War II-induced player shortages forcing a one-year merger of the Cardinals and Pittsburgh Steelers,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.steelcityunderground.com\/2020\/06\/11\/steelers-throwback-thursday-history-of-cardinals-steelers-merger-1944\/\"> creating \u201cCard-Pitt\u201d<\/a> and splitting the team\u2019s home games between the cities. Ranging between the 1942 and 1945 seasons, the Cardinals amassed 29-straight defeats, a record that still stands as<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/bayarea\/49ers\/who-holds-longest-nfl-losing-streak-history\"> the longest losing run in NFL history<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The franchise\u2019s fortunes changed course quickly with the Cardinals claiming the NFL\u2019s 1947 championship, outdoing the Philadelphia Eagles in the ultimate contest, then returning back to the final game in 1948, though the Eagles exacted revenge in that one. The 1947 title remains the last the Cardinals have won.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From 1949 through 1973, the Cardinals climbed atop another terrible leaderboard, matching the Washington Redskins for the longest playoff drought in NFL history at 25. A brutal time in the 1950s influenced the team\u2019s exit from Chicago in 1960. The franchise<a href=\"https:\/\/sportshistorynetwork.com\/football\/nfl\/chicago-cardinals-move-to-st-louis\/\"> headed west for St. Louis<\/a> and retained the Cardinals name despite the city already hosting a long-established baseball team under the same moniker. In the 28 seasons the franchise spent in St. Louis, it played in three playoffs and never reached a conference championship game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Cardinals packed up again in the late \u201880s, going much further west<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/archive\/sports\/1988\/03\/16\/nfl-approves-cardinals-move-to-phoenix\/229d97d4-2e52-4ec0-ac10-2586cb36987d\/\"> this time for Phoenix<\/a>, where they could be the only Cardinals in town. Life in the desert has only been marginally better. The team qualified for one postseason from when it came to Arizona in 1988 through 2007, continuing its long-standing tradition of futility. That consistency took a brief hiatus in 2008 when Kurt Warner directed the Cardinals on a run to Super Bowl XLIII, the franchise\u2019s inaugural appearance in the event. Arizona rallied from 13 points down in the fourth quarter to take a lead in the final three minutes of regulation just for Ben Roethlisberger and Santonio Holmes to finish off a forever-famous drive to secure the title for the Steelers and ruin the Cardinals\u2019 best-ever shot at supremacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RcRG3L7seQM\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Arizona has played in four playoffs since 2008 and reached one NFC Championship Game in those showings. The last 15 years have been decent by the franchise\u2019s historical standards, but that says more about the mass misery the Cardinals have manufactured than anything else. The Cardinals own the NFL\u2019s<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/photos\/longest-nfl-title-droughts-09000d5d8291835e\"> longest championship drought<\/a> and are one of six franchises to have never triumphed in the Super Bowl. Fewer than 2 percent of their 103 NFL opportunities have concluded in championships. There have been 57 Super Bowls, and only one has contained the Cardinals. The franchise ranks near the bottom of the league in all-time and playoff winning percentages, and 11 playoff appearances in more than a century-worth of seasons is inexplicably atrocious. The Cardinals have been losers in all of their destinations, and they\u2019ve dug themselves into a deep hole as the worst franchise in the NFL entertains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Dishonorable Mentions: Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Minnesota Vikings, Carolina Panthers<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Buccaneers have two Super Bowl victories to their name, which is more than a lot of teams in this league can say. But outside of those two anomalies, Tampa Bay has been catastrophically bad. The Bucs have the worst winning percentage of any NFL franchise (.404), and their 13 playoff appearances is the fifth-least in the league. Tampa Bay gained its NFL existence in 1976 with an 0-14 campaign, one of 22 times the team has failed to win more than five contests in a season. The Buccaneers have been mostly terrible in their 47 years, and even the two Super Bowls can\u2019t erase decades of defeats. But those championships can do enough to keep the Bucs on the outside looking down at the worst franchises the NFL has to offer \u2013 it\u2019s just a dishonorable mention for this Florida football team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Minnesota joined the NFL in 1961, a few years before the Super Bowl started. In 62 seasons, the Vikings are yet to claim an NFL championship, in the Super Bowl or otherwise. This is why they\u2019re named here. Outside of accomplishing the ultimate goal, Minnesota hasn\u2019t been that bad \u2013 it has the NFL\u2019s sixth-best all-time winning percentage in the NFL (.548), is tied for the fifth-most all-time playoff appearances (31), and claimed 21 division titles. But those regular season recognitions haven\u2019t translated to when it matters most. The Vikings have one of the league\u2019s worst all-time playoffs winning percentages (.404) and have come up empty in all four of their Super Bowl showings. Minnesota has put together some fantastic teams, but none of them have achieved what\u2019s needed to be immortalized. Plain and simple, the Vikings should have won a championship by now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JtKiuXv03Cc\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The youth of the Panthers, entering the league as an expansion franchise in 1995, is what saves them from a numbered position on this list. Carolina has reached two Super Bowls in its 28 completed seasons, which is more than can be said for teams like the Texans and Jaguars, who have done less in comparable campaign counts. Plus, when the Panthers have made the playoffs, they\u2019ve actually done fairly well \u2013 a .529 postseason winning percentage is among the top half of the league. But Carolina is still one of six franchises without a Super Bowl triumph, and nearly 30 years is long enough to be notable. In the NFL, there is nothing more important than winning the Super Bowl \u2013 it feels required that all six be mentioned in an article like this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a long, painful journey for these NFL franchises. 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