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The Hartford Colonials , originally the New York Sentinels , were a professional American football team that played in the United Football League in its 2009 and 2010 seasons. A charter member of the UFL, the Sentinels began play in 2009 nominally representing New York City but playing its home games in three stadiums, none of which were in the city proper: Pratt & Whitney Stadium at Rentschler Field in East Hartford, Connecticut ; Shuart Stadium in Hempstead, New York (on Long Island ); and the now-demolished Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey . (The Sentinels had scheduled a game for Citi Field in Queens but relocated that game to Long Island.) As the Colonials, the team played all of its home games at Rentschler Field in East Hartford, representing the adjacent city of Hartford . League-wide financial problems and the high rate of rent at Rentschler Field led to the league suspending the Colonials' operations in August 2011, a month before it would have begun play in its third season. The league had stated that the Colonials could be brought back for the 2012 UFL season , if it were to be played, but the announcement of the 2012 season removed Hartford's logo (which had remained on the site in 2011, with indication it had been suspended) from the UFL Web site and did not include the team in the league's 2012 schedule.

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80-508: The Colonials and Sentinels were historically the worst of the UFL's five teams, having a combined record of 3–11 (.214) and finishing in last place in both seasons. They hold the dubious distinction of accumulating the league's only winless record in 2009. The team had three head coaches in its history. Ted Cottrell coached the Sentinels in 2009 and was fired after that season. Chris Palmer coached

160-629: A National Football League franchise after the season ended. Palmer departed after the 2010 season to take the role of offensive coordinator for the Tennessee Titans of the NFL. In March 2011, the league named Jerry Glanville as the Colonials' head coach for the 2011 season. An agreement had not yet been secured for the team to return to Rentschler Field until June 2011; unpaid debts and a change in stadium management held up negotiations. The Colonials reached

240-721: A 30-game season in the Gloucestershire Northern Senior League Division Two (14th tier on the English pyramid), losing all their matches after the majority of their players and manager left. In 2016, Grêmio Barueri lost all 19 matches of the Campeonato Paulista Série A3 , the third level of the São Paulo state championship. After the disastrous season, the Antigua and Grêmio Barueri teams folded. In

320-471: A combined 0–21–2 from 1922 to 1925, but played only partial NFL schedules in those years (0–4–1, 0–4, 0–7 and 0–6–1, respectively). They also had another winless season in 1911 going 0–1–3 in the New York Pro Football League . One honorable mention is the 1980 New Orleans Saints . The team lost their first 14 games and finished with a 1–15 record. Their only win was in week 15 when they won by

400-454: A consultant, color commentator for the league's television broadcasts, and liaison for potential expansion markets. Glanville left the league after one season. Glanville was formerly the defensive coordinator for the University of Hawaii 's football team, working under his former offensive coordinator (and eventual successor) at Atlanta, June Jones , for two seasons. Prior to his tenure at

480-479: A deal with Rentschler Field in late June 2011. Weeks after rumors surfaced that the team could be in danger of being contracted, the league suspended operations of the Colonials on August 10, 2011, and offered Glanville a position as a consultant with the league. Team owner Bill Mayer was transferred to the Virginia Destroyers . This includes postseason games. Imperfect season A winless season

560-690: A game that decided the AFC Central title (24–20), and at home in the playoffs against the Steelers (26–23 in overtime). Had the Oilers defeated Pittsburgh, Glanville would have spent January 6, 1990, preparing the team to play at Denver and, possibly, play for its first AFC Championship Game berth in a decade. Instead, Glanville was fired that day. To replace him, Oilers owner K. S. "Bud" Adams hired University of Houston head coach and former Redskins and Bears head coach Jack Pardee . Roughly one week after his firing by

640-474: A great deal of excitement in Atlanta. A perfect preseason in 1990 raised expectations prior to the first game of the season, against Glanville's former team, the Oilers. The host Falcons withstood a furious rally and scored on a late pick-six by Sanders. Atlanta defeated the Oilers, 47–27. Glanville claimed with Atlanta he inherited a "flat-tire," but would take the team to the playoffs in the 1991 season , ending

720-461: A handful of teams have completed their respective seasons without winning a game. In the 2010–11 Serbian SuperLiga , FK Čukarički Stankom played an entire season winless, drawing five matches and losing 25 in a 30-game season, giving them only 5 points and finishing bottom in a field of 16. The team also only scored ten goals whilst conceding 65. In the Bulgarian A Professional Football Group , which

800-469: A huge schedule, it is practically impossible for a team to finish with a winless season. The sabermetric baseball statistic Wins Above Replacement is calculated on the premise that even a team consisting entirely of replacement-level players , (i.e., a player that could be "replaced" by a call-up from the minor leagues without any significant statistical difference) is expected to win a baseline minimum number of games (typically 40–50, depending primarily on

880-460: A loss. No team has ever come close to losing every game in an NHL season; the worst record is by the 1974–75 Washington Capitals who went 8–67–5 (8 wins, 67 losses, 5 ties). The 1974–75 Capitals and 1992–93 Ottawa Senators hold the record for fewest wins on the road with one. The NHL played an 80-game season in 1974–75, whereas in 1992–93 the schedule consisted of 84 games, thus giving the Senators

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960-468: A middle linebacker at Northern Michigan University , graduating in 1964 with a bachelor's degree. He also holds a master's degree from Western Kentucky University , where he worked as an assistant football coach on campus and roomed with fellow former NFL coach Joe Bugel . The two were known for drawing football plays on pizza boxes. During Glanville's time in the National Football League he

1040-482: A nine-year playoff drought. Season highlights included a season sweep of the division rival 49ers , which cost San Francisco a playoff spot despite both teams finishing 10–6; and the Falcons' first playoff victory since 1978 and only the second playoff win in the franchise's 26-year history. The season ended with a loss to the eventual Super Bowl champion Washington Redskins in the divisional round. During his time with

1120-472: A points deduction. Jerry Glanville Jerry Michael Glanville (born October 14, 1941) is an American football coach. He is the defensive coordinator for Northwestern Oklahoma State University , a position he has held since 2024. Prior to that, was most recently the head coach of the Alabama Airborne of Major League Football (MLFB). He played football at Northern Michigan University in

1200-573: A season below the Mendoza line (.200) in win percentage for a minimum of 120 games; the others were the 1889 Louisville Colonels (.196), and the 1890 Pittsburgh Alleghenys (.169), whose best players had jumped to the Pittsburgh Burghers of the newly formed Player's League. Since the establishment of the American League in 1901, the teams to have come closest to a perfectly winless season are

1280-564: A season of 3 to 4 games per team plus a 4 to 8 team playoff. The Los Angeles Reign lost all ten games it played during the league's (and team's) three-year existence. Seasons in the National Lacrosse League and its predecessors Major Indoor Lacrosse League and Eagle Pro Box Lacrosse League have varied from eight games in the first years of competition to eighteen games today, with the extension having been gradual. The Charlotte Cobras , who played only one season before folding, are

1360-433: A season with no victories or draws. Two of them were in their nation's top tier, with Maccabi Nes Tziona losing all 24 matches of the 1949–50 Israeli League , and Gibraltar Phoenix losing all 14 matches in the 2013–14 Gibraltar Premier Division . In lower divisions, Antigua Barracuda lost all 26 matches of the third-tier 2013 USL Pro season , while in the 2015–16 season, English non-league team Longford A.F.C. , played

1440-718: A single point in an entire season; all played eight games or less. The 1938 Clintonville Four Wheel Drive Truckers failed to score a point in a nine-game season but managed two 0–0 ties. There are at least twelve teams who have accumulated losing streaks of 20 games or more; there are also four teams who have accumulated seasons of all losses with at least 13 games. In the case of minor professional football, particularly in indoor football leagues, winless seasons often result from an owner's abandonment or other financial hardship. The American Indoor Football Association had at least one winless team in five out of six seasons. The National Indoor Football League went its first three seasons without

1520-471: A single point. The second team to replicate this feat was the 2016 Cleveland Browns , who, as mentioned above, went winless the following season. The previously shorter length of seasons in arena football made imperfect seasons quite possible. The following teams went through an Arena Football League or a National Arena League season without winning a game: In 2001, the Columbus Wardogs of AF2 ,

1600-712: A winless season, but beginning in 2004, at least one team went winless every year until the league's collapse in 2007. Though the Spring Football League had two teams with winless seasons (the Los Angeles Dragons and the Miami Tropics ), and the Stars Football League had one such team (the traveling 2011 Michigan Coyotes), they are almost never mentioned in discussions of perfect and perfectly bad seasons, since those teams only played two games each before

1680-456: A winning percentage of 0.106. This broke the record held by the 1972–73 Philadelphia 76ers , who had a winning percentage of .110 in a full 82-game season. The 1947–48 Providence Steamrollers won an all-time NBA low of six games out of 48 (.125 winning percentage). The 1953–54 Baltimore Bullets went 0–20 on the road. More recently, the 1990–91 Sacramento Kings managed a near-imperfect road season, winning only one of 41 away games. Overall,

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1760-485: Is "This isn't college, you're not at a homecoming. This is N-F-L, which stands for 'not for long' when you make them fuckin' calls." The "NFL" line was in reference to the fact that Daopoulos was in his first year in the league, having previously worked in college football. Jerry Glanville grew up in Perrysburg, Ohio and played football for Perrysburg High School , graduating in 1959. He went on to play college football as

1840-607: Is a regular season in which a sports team fails to win any of its games. The antithesis of a perfect season , winless seasons have been suffered twelve times in professional American football , six times in arena football , three times in professional Canadian football , once each in American professional lacrosse and box lacrosse , more than twenty-five times in major Australian football leagues, over twenty times in top-level rugby league , at least twice in top-level rugby union , and twice in English county cricket . Because of

1920-492: Is possible for multiple teams to go winless (or also, for that matter, to go undefeated in the regular season). This was common in the NFL's early years as scheduling was not standardized and teams entered and left the league regularly. Since 1935, multiple simultaneous winless seasons has only happened once, in 1944 when both Brooklyn and Card-Pitt finished 0–10 in a season where rosters had been decimated (and parity disrupted) by wartime enlistments. The Rochester Jeffersons went

2000-445: Is shorter, with teams playing up to 40 games, divided into non-conference play, conference play (both regular season), conference tournaments, and postseason tournaments. Starting in 2020, Division I teams can either play 29 or 31 regular season games, with conference play ranging from 14 to 20 games. Better performing teams play more games by qualifying to conference and postseason tournaments. Only six teams are known to have completed

2080-595: Is the top tier of association football in the European country, three teams have all played a season without winning, with those being Torpedo Ruse (four draws out of 22 matches during 1951 ), Rakovski Ruse (one draw out of 30 matches during 1996/97 ) and Chernomorets Burgas Sofia (also one draw out of 30 matches during 2006/07 ). Chernomorets were however the worse performing out of these, conceding 131 goals with only eight in reply (the same number scored as Rakovski Ruse in their winless season), they still however completed

2160-488: The 1967–68 season , the National Basketball Association's standard regular season schedule has been 82 games long (except the 1998–99 , 2011–12 , 2019–20 , and 2020–21 seasons were shortened, though all were at least 50 games). The 2011–12 Charlotte Bobcats hold the record for the lowest winning percentage of any team in an NBA season, winning only 7 out of 66 games in a lockout-shortened season, for

2240-533: The 1999–2000 Vyshcha Liha , the highest division of Ukrainian football championship, FC Zirka Kirovohrad tied 9 matches and lost 21 out of 30. In the 2016 Thai Division 2 League Eastern Region , the third highest division of Thai football pyramid. TA Benchamarachuthit F.C. drew 5 matches and lost 17 out of 22 matches. In the 2017–18 Scottish Championship , the second highest division of Scottish Football, Brechin City drew 4 matches and lost 32 out of 36 matches. In

2320-404: The 2010 season, before he was hired by the Tennessee Titans as their offensive coordinator in 2011. Former NFL head coach Jerry Glanville was named as his replacement for 2011 but the team folded before he coached a game. Both New York and Hartford were among the six inaugural teams originally announced for the 2009 season, along with Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Orlando, and San Francisco. When

2400-608: The 2017–18 Gibraltar Premier Division , the highest division in Gilbraltar football championship, Manchester 62 drew 7 games and lost 20 out of 27. In the 2018 Úrvalsdeild , the highest division in Icelandic football championship, Knattspyrnudeild Keflavík drew 4 games and lost 18 out of 22. In the 2018–19 Football Superleague of Kosovo , the highest division in Kosovar football championship, KEK drew 1 game and lost 32 out of 33. In

2480-674: The 2018–19 Campionato Sammarinese di Calcio , the football championship in San Marino, Virtus drew 2 games and lost 17 out of 19. In the 2019–20 Slovenian PrvaLiga , the highest division in Slovenian football , Rudar Velenje drew 12 games and lost 24 out of 36, conceding a last-minute equaliser away to NK Bravo on the final day of the season. In the 2022-23 Cymru Premier the highest division in Welsh football, Airbus UK Broughton drew 2 games and lost 30 out of 32 games, ending in -4 points after

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2560-660: The 2020 season , also abbreviated by COVID-19, Chaos LC went 0–4 in the regular season, but won two games in the league's Championship Series (i.e., playoffs) before losing in the final to Whipsnakes LC . In the other major professional sports leagues of North America it is virtually impossible that a team could lose all its games, for the simple reason that there are many more games in the regular season than in football or lacrosse. The Major League Soccer schedule has consisted of between 26 and 34 games. No team in Major League Soccer has ever come close to losing all its games:

2640-469: The 2022–23 Scottish Women's Premier League , Glasgow Women F.C. lost all 32 of their games. In the 2010–11 Ukrainian Second League (3rd tier on the Ukrainian pyramid), FC Veres Rivne lost all 14 out of 22 scheduled games before being expelled from the league due to failure of payment of league dues; in addition, they failed to score a single goal at home. In top-level domestic league football however,

2720-502: The COVID-19 pandemic . During the existence of the MLL, two teams recorded winless seasons—the 2006 Chicago Machine , who went 0–12 and lost an MLL record 13 consecutive games, and by the 2020 New York Lizards , who went 0–5 in the shortened season. PLL has never had a team record a completely winless season since its formation in 2019 ; only one team has recorded a winless regular season. During

2800-522: The Cleveland Browns . He received a highly publicized post-game dressing down from Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Chuck Noll during the customary postgame handshake after the Oilers defeated the Steelers in the Houston Astrodome during the 1987 season . Glanville turned the Oilers, a team that had struggled through most of the 1980s, into an aggressive, hard-hitting group that preached a "hit

2880-508: The Grey Cup . There was also far more disparity between teams in early Canadian football leagues. Also unlike the NFL, the CFL has always awarded "points" in the standings that, in effect, have always counted ties as "half-wins" so a team with only ties and losses in the standings has never been regarded as having an imperfect season. The National Pro Grid League , which operated from 2014 to 2016, has

2960-639: The Hartford Colonials . Under the UFL's double round robin format, only one team could finish any particular season entirely with losses, since every team played each other at least twice. The 1991 inaugural season of the World League of American Football saw the Raleigh-Durham Skyhawks fold after losing all ten of their regular-season games. The following year, the WLAF replaced that franchise with

3040-559: The Hooters Pro Cup , with a best finish of 12th at Southampton Speedway . Glanville was also working for CBS Sports during this period, mainly as an NFL studio analyst. Glanville also called several NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series races on CBS / TNN during this period, mainly as a race analyst in the booth. The Sega Genesis system offered Jerry Glanville's PigSkin Footbrawl , a medieval -themed arcade-style football game. The game

3120-477: The NASCAR Busch Grand National Series in 1992 for Lewis Cooper with sponsorship from the Falcons. After failing to qualify in his first career attempt at Lanier Speedway , he made his series debut at Orange County Speedway , finishing 22nd. He ran six races during his three-year timespan in the series, with a best finish of 20th at Volusia County Speedway in 1992. Glanville returned to

3200-677: The Ohio Glory who almost met the same fate but managed one win in their lone season. Since non-professional, semi-professional, and minor league teams are inherently unstable in their membership, it is far easier for seasons in which a team wins no games to occur. In the case of non-professional teams, neither mechanisms to force a team to shut down against its will, nor effective drafts or revenue sharing mechanisms to distribute talent evenly among teams typically exist, leading to poor teams accumulating multiple winless seasons. Four teams in football history have both lost all their games and failed to score

3280-859: The Philadelphia Athletics in 1916 (36–117), the Boston Braves in 1935 (38–115), the New York Mets in their 1962 inaugural season (40–120), the Detroit Tigers in 2003 (43–119), the Baltimore Orioles in 2018 (47–115), the Detroit Tigers in 2019 (47–114), the Oakland Athletics in 2023 (50–112), and the Chicago White Sox in 2024 (41–121). Compared to the NBA, the college basketball season

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3360-850: The Skoal Bandit Copper World Classic , the inaugural SuperTruck Series race, and finished 27th. He continued racing in the Truck Series from 1995 to 1999, with a best finish of 14th three times. In addition to the Busch and Truck Series, Glanville competed in the NASCAR Slim Jim All Pro Series in 1996, finishing 23rd at Gresham Motorsports Park . He later raced in the Winston West Series , his debut coming in 1997 at Pikes Peak International Raceway , where he finished seventh. From 1997 to 1999, he ran eight races in

3440-605: The Toronto Triumph , did not win a game in either of their competing seasons in 2011 and 2012. The Princeton Tigers sprint football squad, a team consisting of players under 172 pounds, sustained 16 consecutive winless seasons before Princeton University shut the team down in 2015, citing safety concerns in allowing players to play on a team so heavily outmatched. Since 1986, the Canadian Football League 's regular season spans eighteen games; from 1952 to 1985 it

3520-471: The WNBA bubble season . The record was previously tied at 3 wins by the 1998 Washington Mystics in their first season, and the 2011 Tulsa Shock . Two other expansion WNBA teams, the 2008 Atlanta Dream at 4–30 and the 2006 Chicago Sky at 5–29, have come close to this record. The Atlantic City Seagulls of the (now defunct) summertime, minor league USBL finished the 2001 season with an 0–28 record. It

3600-487: The 2003 Hamilton Tiger-Cats who went 1-17; however, there have been three other seasons in which a team won a single game under shorter standard regular season schedules since 1958) – the last imperfect season in either of the CFL's antecedent leagues was in 1949. Imperfect seasons were common in the Canadian football during the first half of the twentieth century when fewer games were played and more leagues were challenging for

3680-635: The Falcons, the team would pitch a "Back in Black" motto with new all-black uniforms and the same aggressive type play on defense, an offensive system known as the "Red Gun" that would implement most of the principles associated with the Run-N-Shoot offense , and an emphasis on special teams as he had done in Houston. The Falcons featured talented players such as future Hall of Fame CB "Prime Time" Deion Sanders and were known for unorthodox antics. Expectations were high after

3760-555: The Kings lost 43 consecutive road games before beating the Orlando Magic 95–93 on November 23, 1991. Since its formation in 1997, the WNBA regular season has been gradually increased from 30 to the current 40-game schedule to be used starting in 2023. No team has gone through a WNBA season without winning a game; the fewest wins in a WNBA season has been 2 by the 2020 New York Liberty during

3840-421: The NBA, consists of 82 games. Since the 2004–05 lockout , teams receive two points for a win, one point for a loss in overtime or a shootout , and zero points for a loss in regulation time. From 1997 until 2004, teams received two points for a win, one point for a tie or overtime loss, and zero points for a regulation loss. Prior to 1997, teams received two points for a win, one point for a tie, and no points for

3920-705: The NFL , CBS 's The NFL Today / NFL on CBS and Fox 's coverage of the NFL . He has also raced on the Automobile Racing Club of America circuit. Glanville also briefly served as a consultant and liaison for the United Football League in 2011. While head coach of the Houston Oilers, Glanville coined the now-famous phrase "NFL means 'not for long'", while admonishing NFL back judge Jim Daopoulos for making what Glanville felt were bad calls. The exact quote

4000-615: The Oilers made three playoff appearances (which happened to be during his last three seasons), twice playing in the AFC divisional round. His final game with the Oilers was the 1989 AFC wild card game , played on December 31, 1989. Glanville's 1989 squad finished its season with consecutive losses against the Bengals in Cincinnati (61–7), at home against the Cleveland Browns in the final seconds in

4080-479: The Oilers, Glanville was hired to become the head coach of the Atlanta Falcons (1990–1993). He had been a defensive coordinator for the Falcons, best known for developing the famous "Gritz Blitz" defense that featured rushing multiple players on the defensive side of the football against opposing offenses. The brash Glanville, as well as fan favorites such as cornerback/return specialist Deion Sanders , generated

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4160-524: The University of Hawaii, Glanville's earlier involvement with college football was the defensive ends/outside linebackers coach at Georgia Tech from 1968 to 1973 and the defensive coordinator at Western Kentucky University in 1967, shortly after his own career as a player had ended. On February 28, 2007, Glanville accepted the head coaching position at Portland State University (PSU), his first college head coaching job. Glanville, who replaced Tim Walsh ,

4240-420: The beach" mentality, and he made players such as future Hall of Fame quarterback Warren Moon into household names (incidentally, Glanville and Moon didn't get along, as evidenced by Glanville's constant reference to Moon as "our quarterback" in his book Elvis Don't Like Football: The Life and Raucous Times of the NFL's Most Outspoken Coach when discussing his tenure as Oilers' coach. ) During Glanville's tenure,

4320-600: The caliber of the team's division) per 162-game season. The closest to a perfectly winless season in the National League was the infamous 1899 Cleveland Spiders season , who finished with a record of 20-134 after its roster was looted by the owners of the team, who then stacked the best players onto the St. Louis Perfectos . With a win percentage of .130, the Spiders are (as of 2020) the last of three major league teams to have finished

4400-600: The early 1960s, and is a former NASCAR driver and owner, and sportscaster. He served as head coach of the Houston Oilers from 1986 to 1990 and the Atlanta Falcons from 1990 to 1994, compiling a career National Football League (NFL) record of 63–73. From 2007 to 2009, he was the Head Football Coach at Portland State University , tallying a mark of 9–24. Glanville has worked as an analyst on HBO 's Inside

4480-513: The firing of Hugh Campbell , and then being the permanent replacement starting in 1986), and head coach of the Atlanta Falcons from 1990 to 1993. As head coach of the Oilers from 1985 to 1989, Glanville was famous for often leaving tickets at will-call for Elvis Presley (who by that point had been dead for over a decade), wearing all black to be easily recognized by his players, and driving replicas of vehicles driven by actor James Dean . Glanville's Oilers were an aggressive, hard-hitting team (to

4560-450: The first player to throw for 70,000 passing yards and 500 touchdowns. He would also appear in two Super Bowls, winning Super Bowl XXXI . On March 21, 2011, the Hartford Colonials of the United Football League announced that Glanville would serve as the team's head coach and general manager. The Colonials suspended operations in August of that year; Glanville would remain with the league as

4640-425: The first to sign a deal with a regional sports network , with two of the Colonials' games carried on New England Sports Network . The Colonials presented a living history program that featured Revolutionary War soldiers with muskets, a horseman portraying Connecticut hero David Humphreys , and a period cannon and crew in the end zone that fired after every Colonials score, all interacting with fans before and during

4720-464: The home games. This was featured in video and on the web at their last game in 2010 against the Las Vegas Locomotives by ESPN. The Colonials were a bellwether for many of the problems that would plague the league beginning at the end of the 2010 season; the team narrowly averted a strike in protest to a proposed transfer fee that would have effectively prevented players from signing on with

4800-788: The league contracted to four teams prior to the start of that season, Hartford's and New York's teams were merged into one, maintaining the New York name. The team began play as the Sentinels in October 2009, with home games split between Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey , James M. Shuart Stadium in Hempstead, New York , and Rentschler Field (one home game in each venue). The league had planned to play at least one game in New York City proper (at Citi Field ), but this never materialized, and

4880-481: The league's standardized color scheme. Northland AEG , L.L.C., the operators of Rentschler Field, purchased a stake in the franchise upon the team's arrival in Hartford, though exactly what size share the company owned is unknown. The team also hired former Cleveland Browns head coach Chris Palmer to be their head coach and general manager. The Colonials became the first UFL team to agree to broadcast their games on radio; games were aired on WPOP . They were also

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4960-467: The minor league of the AFL, made history becoming the first American football team to go 0–16. The United Football League had one winless season. In their inaugural season, the 2009 New York Sentinels lost all six of their games. The team, which was a traveling team that played games in Hartford, Long Island and New Jersey (and had intended to play a game in New York City but backed out), fired its head coach and settled permanently in Hartford to become

5040-403: The most losses in a MLS season is 24 from 32 games by the Kansas City Wizards, now known as Sporting Kansas City , in 1999 , the year when the league used shootouts to decide all tied games. Shootouts were abandoned the following season. In 2013 , D.C. United set new MLS records in futility. United won a league-low 3 games, and lost a record 24 games, tying the aforementioned Wizards. Since

5120-421: The new team name, or to suggest a name not listed. The new name was announced as being the Hartford Colonials on March 14, 2010. "Colonials" was not one of the four names voters could choose from, but was said to become an "overwhelming favorite" among the fan suggested names. The team's logo and colors were revealed May 24, 2010 to have a blue and metallic gold scheme, the first of the UFL teams to have broken from

5200-405: The only team in the history of the NLL to have not won a game in a season. In their sole 1996 season they played 12 games and lost them all, before folding. In Major League Lacrosse , the season consisted of either 12 or 14 games from the league's formation in 2001 through the 2019 season . The 2020 season , the last before MLL merged into the Premier Lacrosse League , was abbreviated due to

5280-422: The percentage record for worst road record. The Senators also set a record by losing their first 38 consecutive road games (the Senators' road statistics include a neutral site game played in Hamilton, Ontario , in which the Senators were considered the road team). Since the early 1960s, the schedule of both leagues of Major League Baseball has been 162 games long, and before that it was 154 games long. With such

5360-415: The point of resorting to cheap shots in the eyes of their opponents). During his tenure, the Astrodome was nicknamed "The House of Pain" due to both the Oilers' hard-hitting style and the often painfully high decibel levels which were typical of Oilers home games. Glanville often feuded with the head coaches of Houston's AFC Central rivals, Sam Wyche of the Cincinnati Bengals and Marty Schottenheimer of

5440-503: The proposed game was moved to Shuart Stadium. Former NFL assistant Ted Cottrell was hired as the team's head coach. The Sentinels posted a 0–6 record and Cottrell was fired following the season. In February 2010, the team moved to Hartford, Connecticut for the 2010 season, a move initially opposed by team owner Bill Mayer . Through an online vote, fans were asked to select one of four names ( Hartford Knights , Hartford Guardians, Hartford Travelers or Connecticut Yankees ) to become

5520-563: The relatively small number of games played in college and professional football seasons, there is a possibility that a particularly inept team will not manage to win any games. Before overtime games in the regular season was instituted, teams might tie a game without winning a game; these are still counted in lists of winless seasons. This is because, during eras before overtime was introduced to American football, leagues generally ignored tied games when calculating winning percentage. Because NFL teams do not all play one another each season, it

5600-454: The season with a minus 2 points total, because they violated a rule concerning not being able to field enough youth players. In the 1946–47 Allsvenskan with 22 games played, Billingsfors IK tied 3 games and lost 19, the only team in Swedish football history never to win even one single Allsvenskan game in a season. In the 1998–99 Alpha Ethniki , the football championship in Greece, Ethnikos Piraeus drew 8 games and lost 26 out of 34. In

5680-420: The seasons were cut short. AF2 was the minor league of the Arena Football League . In 2001, the Columbus Wardogs made history becoming the first American football team to finish a season 0–16. The Legends Football League (originally Lingerie Football League), whose seasons are only three to four games long for each team, has had eight teams with perfectly bad seasons in three years of play. One such team,

5760-413: The second round of the 1991 NFL draft , citing Favre's personal issues with alcohol and his party lifestyle. He said it would take a plane crash for him to put Favre into a game. Glanville also was known to place $ 100 bets before games (with Favre and others) on whether Favre could throw a football into the third deck of stadiums or not. Favre only threw four passes during his one season with Atlanta, then

5840-576: The series in 1999 , but failed to qualify for all five races he attempted. He later ran in the ARCA Hooters SuperCar Series , running ten races in 1994 as an owner/driver of the No. 81, and recorded a best finish of ninth at I-70 Speedway . Glanville returned to ARCA in 2000, running a part-time schedule until 2004 for his and Norm Benning 's teams, his best finish being fourth at Nashville Superspeedway in 2002. In 1995, he participated in

5920-542: The success of the 1991 season and after the Falcons vacated Atlanta–Fulton County Stadium for the Georgia Dome , but the team's consecutive 6–10 records for 1992 and 1993 led the Falcons to dismiss Glanville in early 1994. He was out of football until he became the University of Hawaii's defensive coordinator over a decade later. His career record as an NFL head coach is 63–73. Glanville vehemently opposed Falcons general manager Ken Herock 's selection of Brett Favre in

6000-643: The team after the 2018 season for personal reasons. In 2019, he was hired by Marc Trestman as the defensive coordinator for the Tampa Bay Vipers of the XFL . Glanville was named head coach of the Conquerors of The Spring League on October 15, 2020. Glanville began racing by learning from seven-time Winston Cup Series champion Dale Earnhardt , who would mentor Glanville in tests at Richmond International Raceway . Glanville officially started his racing career in

6080-460: Was generally sixteen games like the NFL from 1978 to 2020, though those teams in what is now the Eastern Division played only fourteen as late as 1973. Also, the CFL did not adopt interdivisional regular season play until the early 1960s. There have been no imperfect seasons since the CFL was officially founded in 1958 (the closest any CFL team has come to a winless season since its formation are

6160-506: Was quite a turnaround for the franchise, as they were dominant in the USBL just a few years earlier; the Seagulls were USBL runners-up in 1996, then swept to three straight titles in 1997–99. In 2000, the Seagulls slipped to 12–18, fourth place, and were beaten in the first round of the playoffs; after their winless 2001 campaign, the Seagulls folded. The National Hockey League's schedule, like that of

6240-502: Was the program's 12th head coach in their history. He resigned this position with the support of the university on November 17, 2009, with an overall record of 9–24 during his tenure. In 2024, he became defensive coordinator for Northwestern Oklahoma State , an NCAA Division II school. On February 23, 2018, Glanville was named defensive coordinator for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the Canadian Football League (CFL). He left

6320-519: Was the special teams/defensive assistant for the Detroit Lions from 1974 to 1976, the secondary coach for the Atlanta Falcons from 1977 to 1978 and the Falcons defensive coordinator from 1979 to 1982, the secondary coach of the Buffalo Bills in 1983, the defensive coordinator of the then Houston Oilers from 1984 to 1985 and then head coach from 1985 to 1989 (initially being the interim coach after

6400-491: Was traded to the Green Bay Packers in the 1992 off-season for a first-round draft pick. Glanville claimed the trade was a wake-up call for Favre, who was known for even being late to the team picture during his rookie season with the Falcons. Favre went on to play 19 seasons in the NFL, starting every game from September 20, 1992, to December 5, 2010, and becoming the first NFL player to win three AP MVP awards , as well as

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