Are this season’s Ticats the worst CFL team ever?

Or should that “distinction”go to the 90-91 Ticats?

David Beckman: Note the quotation marks around the word Coach

For years it seemed as if the thorough destruction of a storied franchise undertaken by Dave “high school coach” Beckman was the absolute bottom in Hamilton Tiger-Cat football history. A moment of insanity (and penny-pinching) by then owner David Braley led to the dismantling of the previous year’s Grey Cup finalists and a 2-12 record by an utterly unqualified coach. Now the bad times are back with Charlie “5 – 23″ Taaffe.

After last night’s debacle at No – Wynne Stadium, getting crushed 35-12 by the BC Lions without any sign of resistance (or even a tackle), the Tabbies are well on their way to becoming the worst CFL team ever. The game isn’t on You tube yet – probably because the documentation of such a malignant performance would be classified as a virus.

By all accounts the team won’t get any better. The current ownership, who shelled out on an excessive multiyear contract to alleged pro coach Taaffe, is too cheap to pay for a new coach to come in and pick up the pieces before the end of the season. The management’s spin is that “the team needs consistency” – obviously the kind of consistency that comes from losing almost every game over a number of years…

Pfui.