NFL

Bell got arrested a few times? I must've forgotten. I don't think it's an institutional problem for the team. It's the sport. Too many guys are on roids or have uncontrolled impulses due to CTE so this problem would still exist with the best run teams.

As a Minnesota sports fan in general, that's basically all of MN sports. We win most of the games that "matter" the least, then choke massively in the national spotlight so everyone outside MN thinks we're absolute garbage and always have been, where anyone who actually pays attention to us knows we're a good deal better than that and there's a reason we're in the spotlight in the first place. The Twins in MLB, for example, have a "historic" 18-game losing streak in the playoffs (mostly against the Yankees), but we do find a way into the playoffs more often than not. Not every MN team playoff year is some "lucky fluke", we're not always "frauds". We've been blue-balled in football, baseball and hockey for far too long.

The one exception is the Timberwolves, they just suck and always have, except for that one season in 2003.

I dunno about worst...4 straight superbowl losses for the Bills in the 90s is pretty fuckin bad too.

The way I read it was all players for that team active or not, specifically to when they were on that particular team.

I think this relates to while players are active with the team. Too messy to track after they leave a team because many players are multi-team players over their lifetime.