TODAY’S SPORTSTAT– Surprise, but Browns don’t have longest winning season drought
By JERRY TAPP
With an 0-8 record this season, the Cleveland Browns have assured themselves of another season where they did not have a winning season (above .500 winning percentage). The last year the Browns had a winning season was in 2007 when they went 10-6.
Surprisingly, the Browns don’t have the longest drought when it comes to winning seasons. The Los Angeles Rams have not had a winning season since 2003. They do, however, look like they might right the ship this season; the Rams are currently 6-2 and look like a legitimate force in the NFC.
Here’s a look at the last season each of the 32 NFL teams had a winning season (above .500 winning percentage):
2016: Atlanta, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Green Bay, Houston, Kansas City, Miami, New England, New York Giants, Oakland, Pittsburgh, Seattle, Tampa Bay, Tennessee, Washington
2015: Arizona, Carolina, Cincinnati, Minnesota, New York Jets
2014: Baltimore, Buffalo, Indianapolis, L.A. Chargers, Philadelphia
2013: New Orleans, San Francisco
2012: Chicago
2007: Cleveland, Jacksonville
2003: L.A. Rams
Jerry Tapp
Jerry Tapp is a freelance writer from Racine, WI with a major concentration on sports statistics and numbers that define sports teams and players. He began his foray into sports stats-focused writing as a regular contributor to the “Numbers” column in Inside Sports magazine in the mid-1980’s and then began writing a weekly “Stats on Tapp” column for the Racine Journal Times. That column was eventually nationally syndicated by Universal Press Syndicate. He later wrote sports stats items for the Washington Post under the “Stat of the Day” heading. After launching his blog, www.statsontapp.com in 2011, Jerry turned his sports stats attention to sports websites. He wrote regularly for Bleacher Report, BallHyped, football.com and Heavy.com. Today he keeps busy writing weekly columns of stats-centric articles for three sports websites, Today’s Pigskin (NFL), Today’s Knuckleball (MLB) and Today’s Fastbreak (NBA), and as a monthly contributor to the Milwaukee Brewers “GameDay” publication that is distributed to fans attending games at Miller Park.