View from the Cellar: Covering the NFL’s Worst Teams for a Living

November 24, 2016   ·   Gary Davenport   ·   Jump to comments

Over the last 10 years, the New England Patriots played in a staggering seven AFC Championship Games and competed in football's biggest game three times. Two years ago, they lifted the Lombardi Trophy as champions of the NFL.
During that same 10-year span, the Seattle Seahawks made the playoffs seven times. They played in a pair of Super Bowls, losing in thrilling fashion to the Patriots and blowing out the Denver Broncos, who themselves won the Super Bowl last year.
They are the NFL's most successful teams. The most popular teams. The league's most talked-about teams.
There's a flip side to that coin, however. The NFL has 32 teams, many of which haven't sniffed the playoffs—much less the Super Bowl—in years. Teams for whom a winning season would be cause for a citywide celebration.
They are the NFL's cellar-dwellers.
Bleacher Report recently spoke to the men and women who cover the NFL's most beleaguered franchises about those struggles, why they c...

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