# The 0-16 NFL Season Thread, 2008 Edition **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [September 11, 2008, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-0-16-nfl-season-thread-2008-edition/463125 "2008-09-11T17:59:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 13
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-0-16-nfl-season-thread-2008-edition/463125/241 "2008-12-29T17:22:58Z")
If I assembled a football team of 50 people I bump into on the street, that football team would equal the Lions’ win total this year. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-0-16-nfl-season-thread-2008-edition/463125/242 "2008-12-29T17:25:21Z")
Rod Marinelli won as many games in 2008 as I did, and I’m not an NFL head coach. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-0-16-nfl-season-thread-2008-edition/463125/243 "2008-12-29T17:42:03Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > Rod Marinelli won as many games in 2008 as I did, and I’m not an NFL head coach. You were not canned and had to give a press conference today. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-0-16-nfl-season-thread-2008-edition/463125/244 "2008-12-29T17:42:57Z")
> [@gonzomax](#): > > You were not canned and had to give a press conference today. So I’m up two on Marinelli. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-0-16-nfl-season-thread-2008-edition/463125/245 "2008-12-29T18:20:25Z")
> [@Omniscient](#): > > Maybe the Lions can hire Marvin Lewis, the Browns can hire Marinelli and the Bengals can hire Herm Edwards and the Chiefs can hire Crennel. Everyone’s happy! Goddamn that’s some funny shit right there! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ZenBeam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3ab097/32.png) [@ZenBeam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZenBeam)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2009, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-0-16-nfl-season-thread-2008-edition/463125/246 "2009-01-17T17:39:52Z")
The [Tank McNamara comic](http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/buildcp.mpl?c=30&page=1&cpp=12&date=2009/1/12&v=3.0&quality=high) is about the 0-16 Lions this week. ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2009, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-0-16-nfl-season-thread-2008-edition/463125/247 "2009-01-20T19:35:34Z")
Barring the assassination of the Arizona Cardinals before Feb.1,the Lions will become the only team to have had a chance to be in every superbowl and not make it. 0-43 ---
**Author:** ![MysteryFellow63427](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e4f/32.png) [@MysteryFellow63427](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysteryFellow63427)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2009, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-0-16-nfl-season-thread-2008-edition/463125/248 "2009-01-20T19:39:17Z")
> [@MadTheSwine](#): > > Barring the assassination of the Arizona Cardinals before Feb.1,the Lions will become the only team to have had a chance to be in every superbowl and not make it. 0-43 Umm… what?? Oh, I get it… you’re saying the Lions are the only non-expansion team to never make the superbowl. ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2009, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-0-16-nfl-season-thread-2008-edition/463125/249 "2009-01-20T23:31:28Z")
> [@MadTheSwine](#): > > Barring the assassination of the Arizona Cardinals before Feb.1,the Lions will become the only team to have had a chance to be in every superbowl and not make it. 0-43 What, and the Cleveland Browns are chopped liver? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2009, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-0-16-nfl-season-thread-2008-edition/463125/250 "2009-01-20T23:35:14Z")
> [@MadTheSwine](#): > > Barring the assassination of the Arizona Cardinals before Feb.1,the Lions will become the only team to have had a chance to be in every superbowl and not make it. 0-43 Cite for the assertion that the Lions have had a chance to be in _any_ Super Bowl? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Wolverine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ba9def/32.png) [@Wolverine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolverine)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2009, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-0-16-nfl-season-thread-2008-edition/463125/251 "2009-01-20T23:38:04Z")
The Browns missed a few years due to a certain team that left for Baltimore, thus Lions have more seasons missing the SB. ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2009, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-0-16-nfl-season-thread-2008-edition/463125/252 "2009-01-20T23:46:39Z")
> [@DSYoungEsq](#): > > What, and the Cleveland Browns are chopped liver? :eek: They couldn’t have made it in 96, 97, or 98. ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2009, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-0-16-nfl-season-thread-2008-edition/463125/253 "2009-01-21T23:13:37Z")
> [@SenorBeef](#): > > They couldn’t have made it in 96, 97, or 98. Ah, yes, quite true. My mistake, they are chopped liver. \ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-0-16-nfl-season-thread-2008-edition/463125.md?page=12)