...Florida, where I grew up, is officially in a state of disgrace when it comes to the 2013 NFL season. The 0-8 Jaguars, 0-7 Bucs and 3-4 Dolphins are a combined 3-19 (.136), and since Miami beat visiting Atlanta in Week 3, the Sunshine State boys are 0-13 and starting to cumulatively approach laughingstock status.
Three wins by the three in-state teams as November approaches has to be the low point of Florida's pro football experience, which began with the AFL expansion Dolphins in 1966. They've never all been this bad at the same time, but it does seem like ages since they've really been relevant in the league's elite class. Miami last made the playoffs in 2008, with Jacksonville and Tampa Bay both visiting the postseason most recently in 2007.
And it gets worse the deeper you dig: the Bucs haven't won a playoff game since their 2002 season Super Bowl run; the Dolphins haven't won in the postseason since 2000, and the Jaguars own just one playoff win (a first-round upset at Pittsburgh in 2007) since humiliating Miami 62-7 in Dan Marino's and Jimmy Johnson's final NFL game, in the 1999 playoffs. That must have angered the football gods or induced bad karma of some kind. Because the NFL in Florida has become an almost embarrassing afterthought.
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