An Imperfect Season (more accurately, an anti-perfect season or a perfectly bad season) is defined as a team losing all (or nearly all) of their games. By virtue of the length of seasons in professional baseball, hockey, and basketball, it is almost impossible that a team playing in one of these sports would be able to lose all their games.

It is the antithesis of a perfect season, and is often referred to as such in a tongue-in-cheek manner.

In sports which have a relatively short season (e.g. - college and professional football), it is possible for a team to finish with no wins and all losses, or only managing a single win and the rest losses.

[edit] NFL Teams with no wins in a season (8 or more games)

Year	Team	Wins	Losses	Ties	Remarks
2008	Detroit Lions	0	16	0	Detroit was also the first non-expansion team to accomplish the feat since World War II, and the first non-expansion team to not win a game in a full season (excluding the wartime seasons and the strike-shortened 1982 season) since the 1934 season.
1982	Baltimore Colts	0	8	1	Strike shortened season. Would draft future Hall of Fame quarterback John Elway with the first pick in the 1983 NFL Draft, but due to protests from Elway before and after the draft had his rights traded to the Denver Broncos a week later.
1976	Tampa Bay Buccaneers	0	14	0	Team made league debut in 1976
1960	Dallas Cowboys	0	11	1	Team made league debut in 1960
1944	Brooklyn Tigers	0	10	0
1944	Card-Pitt	0	10	0	Merger between Chicago Cardinals & Pittsburgh Steelers due to player shortages during World War II; the Steelers themselves merged with the Philadelphia Eagles the previous year for the same reasons. The Cardinals (now in Arizona) and Steelers would play each other in Super Bowl XLIII 64 seasons later.
1943	Chicago Cardinals	0	10	0
1942	Detroit Lions	0	11	0
1934	Cincinnati Reds	0	8	0
1925	Columbus Tigers	0	9	0
1922	Columbus Panhandles	0	8	0

The Rochester Jeffersons also went a combined 0-21-2 over four seasons from 1922 to 1925, but in none of those seasons did they ever play more than seven games.

[edit] NFL Teams with only one win in a season (8 or more games)

Year	Team	Wins	Losses	Ties	Remarks
2009	St. Louis Rams	1	15	0	Only win came aginst the Detroit lions (8th game)
2007	Miami Dolphins	1	15	0	Only win was against Baltimore Ravens in OT during Week 15 (14th game)
2001	Carolina Panthers	1	15	0	Became first team to lose 15 straight games in same season, only win was in opener against the Minnesota Vikings. Did not earn the number one pick in the 2002 NFL Draft by virtue of the expansion Houston Texans automatically having the first pick.
2000	San Diego Chargers	1	15	0	Only win came in 12th game vs. Kansas City 17-16
1996	New York Jets	1	15	0	Only win came in 9th game vs. Arizona 31-21
1991	Indianapolis Colts	1	15	0	Only win came in 10th game 28-27 at NY Jets
1990	New England Patriots	1	15	0
1989	Dallas Cowboys	1	15	0
1982	Houston Oilers	1	8	0	Strike shortened season
1980	New Orleans Saints	1	15	0	Only win came in 15th game 21-20 at NY Jets
1973	Houston Oilers	1	13	0
1972	Houston Oilers	1	13	0
1971	Buffalo Bills	1	13	0
1969	Chicago Bears	1	13	0	Only win came vs. Steelers, lost coin toss to Steelers to draft future Hall of Fame quarterback Terry Bradshaw with the number one pick.
1969	Pittsburgh Steelers	1	13	0	Won first game 16-13 vs. Detroit; first season for Pro Football Hall of Fame coach Chuck Noll & defensive tackle "Mean Joe" Greene.
1968	Buffalo Bills	1	12	1	AFL
1967	Atlanta Falcons	1	12	1
1966	New York Giants	1	12	1
1962	Oakland Raiders	1	13	0	AFL; Only win came against the Boston Patriots in the final week of the season
1962	Los Angeles Rams	1	12	1
1961	Washington Redskins	1	12	1
1960	Washington Redskins	1	9	2
1958	Green Bay Packers	1	10	1	Packers hired Vince Lombardi as coach following the season
1953	Chicago Cardinals	1	10	1
1952	Dallas Texans	1	11	0
1951	New York Yanks	1	9	2
1950	Baltimore Colts	1	11	0
1949	New York Bulldogs	1	10	1
1946	Detroit Lions	1	10	0
1945	Chicago Cardinals	1	9	0
1941	Pittsburgh Steelers	1	9	1
1940	Philadelphia Eagles	1	10	0
1939	Chicago Cardinals	1	10	0
1937	Cleveland Rams	1	10	0
1936	Philadelphia Eagles	1	11	0
1933	Chicago Cardinals	1	9	1
1931	Frankford Yellow Jackets	1	6	1
1930	Minneapolis Red Jackets	1	7	1
1930	Newark Tornadoes	1	10	1
1929	Buffalo Bisons	1	7	1	Only win came in final game of season. Played no games in 1928; previous season (1927), team went 0-5-0.
1929	Minneapolis Red Jackets	1	9	0
1927	Duluth Eskimos	1	8	0
1927	Dayton Triangles	1	6	1
1926	Canton Bulldogs	1	9	3
1923	Oorang Indians	1	10	0
1921	Columbus Panhandles	1	8	0	American Professional Football Assoc.

• Note: The American Professional Football Association was the predecessor to the National Football League

Source: Worst NFL Teams of all time (ESPN) ^[1]

[edit] References

1. ^ "Worst NFL Teams of all Time". ESPN. August 22, 2002. http://espn.go.com/page2/s/list/football/teams/worst.html. Retrieved 2002-08-22.