"We had a toxic mixture of a losing team and unpopular players, " says Allen.
Each week the losing team is sent to the boardroom, where one of their members is fired.
As a whole, Americans thrive on rooting for the victors and replaying the events of the losing team.
Nobody wants to be part of a losing team in a derby but this one is extra special.
Army, which in 1950 was ranked No. 2 in the nation, became a losing team in 1951, winning only two games while dropping seven.
Pele was injured and did not play in that game, meaning the pair of them never finished on the losing team together in yellow and blue.
How did the Brewers' owners get 20% more than the Angels for a losing team in a TV market less than 20% the size of Los Angeles'?
Chambers is now reportedly so desperate to get out that he is prepared to pay Vanderbeek to take his shares so he no longer has to fund capital calls for the money-losing team.
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But he denied that by allowing teams to walk off in protest at racism Fifa would be stirring up a hornet's nest, with fans of a losing team striking up abuse to have a game called off.
Then there are the Indiana Pacers, the money-losing NBA team owned by Herbert.
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Of course, many Alabama fans will rail at the notion of a losing LSU team deserving a 2011-season title.
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Vale was part of the losing bidding team in 2010 with privately held energy company NeoEnergia and construction firm Andrade Gutierrez, among others.
The row led to senior players going on strike, with a weakened team losing Test and one-day series to Bangladesh.
Many loyal fans were crushed by the possibility of losing their beloved team, and local business owners would have been hard hit.
"The biggest failure would be our team losing at the Winter Olympic Games, " Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak said in an appearance in London during this summer's games.
What are the odds Coughlin's training camp mantra of "finish" can carry this decimated, written off, almost dead (ahem, four-game losing streak) team to another spectacular postseason run?
And there is little prospect of the team losing a Test series these days, so a victory in a major tournament remains the only peak left for South Africa to scale.
"They had a rough year, losing the two team captains and relying a lot on freshmen and sophomore players, " said Lin, who graduated in 2010 and never made it to the NCAAs.
Five of the ten won an MLS Cup, and a sixth (the 2003 Chicago Fire) ended up losing to the team with higher odds than them that year (ironically, the San Jose Earthquakes).
The Bobcats made its first ever playoff appearance in 2010 shortly after Jordan took control, but it has been all downhill since with the team losing 68% of its games over the past two seasons.
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The match itself was tightly contested with the home team losing on a late goal in injury time to the Philadelphia Union, but the buzz had little to do with the action on the pitch.
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Texas went 7-5 in the regular season last year, losing to every ranked team it played.
Louis, the kid would get picked on and bullied at school in the fall as his dad's team started losing yet again.
Toseland put his win down to the work done by his team despite losing most of the first day of qualifying due to rain.
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On Wednesday, Collins complimented the "most knowledgeable fans I've ever been around, " and said he understood that drama surrounding the team might be interesting when a team is losing.
Unfortunately, the 3 seasons following the 2005-06 campaign saw the number of teams losing money increase while team profits dwindled as the growth of expenses outpaced that of revenues.
The game had about five minutes left when Kotoko fans - whose team were losing 2-1 - started ripping off chairs from one stand and hurling them onto the pitch.
Pirates fans, who have endured 17 straight losing seasons since their team last made it to the playoffs in 1992, are noticing and are starting to show up more at PNC Park.
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Correspondents say India's turnaround against a relatively inexperienced Australian team after losing three Test series - including one against Australia 0-4 - in a row over the past year was a remarkable achievement.
Wichita State made it this year as a bubble team after losing in the Missouri Valley Conference tourney, but the Shockers followed up an opening-round win over Pitt with an impressive victory over Gonzaga, the top seed in the West and the No. 1 team in the nation at the end of the regular season.
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