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Everything Everywhere Daily

The Washington Generals

Everything Everywhere Daily

Gary Arndt | Glassbox Media

History, Education

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2020

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Sports history is littered with really bad teams. The 1976 Tampa Bay Buccaneers didn’t win a single game and wound up losing 26 in a row. The 2012 Charlotte Bobcats went 7-59 for a .106 winning percentage. The 1899 Cleveland Spiders set a record for futility in baseball winning only 20 games out of 154. However, all of those teams are giants compared to the worst professional sports team in history: The Washington Generals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Sports history is littered with really bad teams.

0:03.5

The 1976 Tampa Bay Buccaneers didn't win a single game

0:07.1

and wound up losing 26 in a row.

0:09.2

The 2012 Charlotte Bobcats had seven wins and 59 losses for a 0.06 winning percentage.

0:17.2

The 1899 Cleveland spiders set a record for futility in baseball winning only 20 games out of 154.

0:24.7

However, all of these teams are giants

0:27.0

compared to the worst professional sports team in history,

0:30.1

the Washington generals.

0:32.0

Learn more about the team which was actually paid money to lose

0:35.0

on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. This episode is brought to you by the Travel Photography Academy. Have you ever been on a trip

0:53.7

and wondered why your photos don't turn out like the images you see in travel

0:56.7

magazines? If you're going to spend thousands of dollars on a trip and

1:00.1

hundreds to thousands of dollars on a camera you owe it yourself to get the highest

1:04.4

quality images from your trip. That's why I created the Travel Photography Academy. I set out to travel

1:09.9

around the world in 2007 with an expensive camera and I had no idea how to use it.

1:15.0

As I traveled around the world I taught myself the art of travel photography,

1:18.0

eventually mastering it to a point where I was named travel photographer the Year three times in North America.

1:23.6

The Travel Photography Academy is an online course that teaches you everything you need to know

1:27.6

to master your camera and to take better photos on your next trip.

1:31.3

To improve your photography and to get better images on your next trip. To improve your photography and to get better images on your

1:34.3

next trip, visit travel photography academy.com or click in the link in the show

1:39.0

notes. The Washington Generals are the basketball equivalent of the coyote to the Harlem Globetrotters Roadrunner.

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