10 NFL Teams That Have Lost More Than 570 Games Each

Some numbers sneak up on you. Through the 2025 season, ten NFL franchises have each absorbed more than 570 regular-season losses, and the list is not the parade of expansion afterthoughts most fans expect. It is full of Lombardi Trophies, century-old crests, and organizations routinely called the best in the sport. Total losses don’t measure incompetence. They measure exposure — every extra hundred defeats marks another layer of wars, relocations, rule changes, and missed Sundays. Counting down from ten, the surprises only get bigger.

10. New York Jets — 573 losses

The Jets round out the top ten at 573 losses since 1960, averaging roughly 8.7 defeats per season. One Super Bowl title from the 1968 season keeps them out of the “never-was” category, but barely. Every new year for this franchise starts not from 0–0 but from the weight of cumulative history. The real question the list forces on every loyal fan: at what point does a single breakthrough season finally outrun decades of compounding failure?

9. Pittsburgh Steelers — 592 losses

Here’s where it gets strange. The Steelers sit ninth with 592 losses, yet they own more Super Bowl trophies than losing decades. One of the most respected organizations in sports lands on a most-defeats list purely because they’ve been playing football for nearly a century. That’s the reframe most people miss. Total losses are a geological core sample of NFL history, not a blame meter.

8. Green Bay Packers — 611 losses

Green Bay, universally considered elite, sits eighth at 611 losses. The Packers posted 13–3 records in both 2019 and 2020 and remain one of the league’s gold-standard franchises. They appear here for the same reason the Steelers do: longevity. Having played since the early 1920s gives them nearly twice as many seasons to accumulate losses as franchises born in the 1990s.

7. Los Angeles Rams — 611 losses

The Rams match Green Bay at 611 losses, seventh on the list, while carrying a .510 all-time winning percentage. That combination captures the paradox perfectly: a winning franchise on a losing-records list. The defeats pile up not because the team is bad, but because the team is old and well-traveled, from Cleveland to Los Angeles to St. Louis and back.

6. Philadelphia Eagles — 645 losses

The Eagles rank sixth with 645 losses — and they won it all in 2017. A Super Bowl champion sitting this high on a most-defeats ranking should reset how you read the entire list. Losses don’t disqualify greatness. They simply record how many times a long-tenured franchise has shown up and lost along the way to its trophies.

5. Chicago Bears — 652 losses

Despite early-era dominance and a place among the league’s founding powers, the Bears rank fifth with 652 losses. They’ve posted modern clunkers like 3–13 in 2016, but the bulk of the total simply reflects time on the field. Founded in the early 1920s, Chicago has had more than a century of Sundays to fill the loss column.

4. Washington — 660 losses

Washington sits fourth at 660 losses while holding three Super Bowl titles. The franchise cycled through ownership from George Preston Marshall to Jack Kent Cooke to Daniel Snyder before Snyder sold in 2023, each era adding losses and controversy. Historic goodwill has repeatedly shielded leadership long past the point the loss column should have forced change.

3. New York Giants — 676 losses

The Giants rank third with 676 defeats, yet they’ve hoisted multiple Lombardi Trophies. A flagship franchise in the nation’s largest media market, they haven’t won an NFC East title since 2011 — the longest active division drought in the conference — with just three winning seasons in that span. They can’t win their own neighborhood, but they keep winning championships often enough to stay beloved.

2. Detroit Lions — 717 losses

The Lions sit second with 717 losses since 1930, but their .462 all-time winning percentage tells the uglier story. The Cardinals lose more because they’ve existed longer; Detroit loses at a higher rate. ESPN identifies the Lions as one of four franchises that have never reached the Super Bowl. They won championships before the Super Bowl existed, which feels less like a consolation and more like a cruel footnote — and it sets up the one franchise that has out-lost everyone.

1. Arizona Cardinals — 826 losses

The Arizona Cardinals own 826 regular-season losses, the most in NFL history. Chicago, St. Louis, Arizona: three cities, one losing tradition, tracing back to the league’s 1920 founding — over a century of Sundays spent mostly on the wrong side of the scoreboard, roughly 7.8 losses per season. They also own the longest losing streak in NFL history: 29 consecutive defeats from 1942 to 1945, snapped at Wrigley Field, during a world war that gutted rosters league-wide. The team with the most total defeats also endured the single worst sustained collapse ever recorded. That longevity didn’t build a dynasty. It built a monument to accumulated pain. Which fan base has suffered the most — and whose losses were self-inflicted? Sound off in the comments.