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...team's record says it all. The Lions are the first in NFL history to start a season 0-15, and by losing 31-21 in Green Bay on Sunday, they go down as the worst NFL team ever. Only the 1976 Tampa Bay Buccaneers had previously finished a year without a win, but they did it in an era when teams played 14, not 16, regular-season games. Plus, those Bucs were an expansion team in their first year of existence; the Lions have been around since the Great Depression, which for their fans hasn't really ended...
...fallout of Detroit dropping its last game, Wood insists, is that the Lions' players will carry a scar for the rest of their lives. "It's embarrassing to me, my family, the city of Tampa, everyone involved," he says of playing for the '76 Buccaneers. "It's a glum, glum feeling, I mean, just an empty feeling." Last week Wood got a call from his brother, who said he just saw the Bucs named the worst NFL team in history on some television program. (Thanks, bro.) "How do you think that made me feel?" Wood asks. "It's hard...
What was with all the drama between the MSNBC anchors at the conventions? Heather McDonald TAMPA...
...Havana, there's still a state militancy that could bring blood to the Malecón. But the new generation of Cubans both here and abroad are of a milder bent, with gentler aspirations. A cabdriver I met launched into a familiar refrain: most of his family fled to Tampa when Fidel Castro stole their lands. So was he--or his family in Florida--waiting to take the land back, to evict those who live there now? "No," he said, "we're all tired of thinking about fighting." His younger relatives in Florida have forgotten to be angry. More and more...
...With the Crimson bidding a bittersweet farewell to Tampa and their 2008 season, playing extraordinarily yet not returning to Cambridge with the win, the Harvard men have an additional aspect of their team to say goodbye to. The six senior members of the squad will hang up their cleats and crimson jerseys one last time, while the remaining members must prepare to fill the large holes left by the graduating class...