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There are lots of contenders for the worst part of the Detroit Lions' miserable 2008 NFL season, starting with the jokes. How do you keep a Detroit Lion out of your backyard? Put up goalposts. There are the utter on-field embarrassments: a 47-10 nationally televised loss to the Tennessee Titans on Thanksgiving, and last week's 42-7 home defeat at the hands of New Orleans, in which on one play, Saints receiver Devery Henderson caught a pass with no Lions defender in sight, then scampered across the field for another 23 yards while cowardly Lions tried like...
...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...
Another word would be shocking. Football experts all agree that in today's "any given Sunday" NFL - in which every team seems to have a decent shot to win, and in which a salary-cap structure and a draft that gives the worst teams access to the best young talent in a young man's game, create leaguewide parity - going winless is awfully hard to do. "It's mind-boggling to me," says Troy Aikman, the Fox Sports analyst and Hall of Fame ex-quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys, who lived through a nightmarish 1-15 season himself...
...bring Martin Mayhew and Tom Lewland, two Millen-era execs who helped assemble the '08 disaster, back for another year. The Lions' coach, Rod Marinelli, hired his son-in-law Joe Barry to be his defensive coordinator. How has that worked out? The Lions have had the NFL's worst defense since Barry took over two years...
...worst year for Mexican law enforcement in recent history, cartel gunmen have killed more than 500 police and military personnel, including eight soldiers who were beheaded near Acapulco on Sunday. Cobo's own life story also sheds light on the machinations of the crime empires behind this killing spree. From a lower-middle class family, Cobo had worked for a while as a journalist in the poor state of Oaxaca before joining the cartel in his late 20s because it was the best job opportunity available. "They first paid me $300 a fortnight, and then it went...