0 and... Oh-no!

Maybe Jay Leno was right. Maybe the Lions should take a page from the Arena Football League and take a year off.

Last season we followed the New England Patriots on their path to perfection, an achievement that nobody thought possible.

This season we were given the opportunity to follow the Detroit Lions on their path to imperfection; another achievement nobody thought possible.

You'd imagine a professional football team, especially an NFL team would have to win at least one game... right?

Sunday's 31-21 loss to the Green Bay Packers established the Lions place in NFL history as the first winless team since the 1976 Tampa Bay Buccaneers (0-14), and are also the first team to finish the season 0-16 since the start of the 16-game schedule 30 years ago this season.

Through the agony of watching an NFL team that probably can be beaten by a semi-pro team, most forget that the Lions started the '07 campaign 6-2. Jon Kitna even guaranteed the playoffs for Detroit.

Poor Jon Kitna. Poor choice of words in Detroit at that.

Then again, poor Lions quarterbacks throughout the years. Including Dan Orlovsky who played decent through the last few weeks of the season. He almost led the Lions to victory... just almost.

"It can't do anything but motivate you," Lions QB Dan Orlovsky said. "I don't ever want to be a part of this again. We haven't won since, November of '07, maybe? I don't even know the last time we won a game."

Actually, the last win was on Dec. 23 of last season against the Kansas City Chiefs, but the Lions have lost 17 striaght since then and have been outscored a total of 551-281.

"I am positive that every aspect of what we do as a football team has to be rethought and analyzed," Lions veteran kicker Jason Hanson said.

That's not a bad start.