The Lions should hail to the Redskins

History was not made on Sunday, and for that, the Detroit Lions should send a bouquet to the Redskins.

If not for the Lions’ win over the Washington Redskins in Week 3, Detroit’s loss on Sunday would have been their 26th in a row -- tying the Tampa Buccaneers of the mid-70’s for the longest losing streak of all time. (I’m sure that factoid won’t go unnoticed when Dan Snyder fires Jim Zorn at the end of the year.) They can, at least, tie the record for the worst 27-game stretch in history if they lose to the Cleveland Browns next week. That will be a challenge, because if any club is even more inept offensively than the Lions, it’s the Browns.

The remarkable thing is how quickly the wheels fell off the wagon. In 2007, John Kitna promised that the Lions were going to have a winning season, and sure enough they started out 6-2. Since then, the Lions are just 2-31. That’s one hell of a fall back to earth. If anyone knows how that feels it’s the Redskins, who started out 6-2 last year and are 5-12 since -- including their loss to the pathetic Lions.

By the way, to those of you in the Cleveland and Detroit markets who’ll have to suffer through the Lions-Browns game instead of something more competitive... I’m sorry. But on the bright side, you’ll know for certain who the worst team in the NFL truly is.