{"id":25,"date":"2002-09-09T09:18:50","date_gmt":"2002-09-09T17:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2002\/09\/09\/the-few-the-proud-the-wimps\/"},"modified":"2002-09-09T09:18:50","modified_gmt":"2002-09-09T17:18:50","slug":"the-few-the-proud-the-wimps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=25","title":{"rendered":"The Few, The Proud, The Wimps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m oddly proud to see that Oberlin College (where I enjoyably wasted some of my younger years) is number five on <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/page2\/s\/list\/colfootball\/teams\/worst.html\">ESPN&#8217;s ten &#8220;Worst college football teams of all time.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<em>In 1994, Oberlin went 0-9, giving up 358 points and scoring only 10. In 1995, the Yeoman were outscored 469-72. After losing 56-0 to Allegheny in one 1992 game, the Yeoman had so few players they had to forfeit their next game against Wittenberg &#8212; and the forfeit turned out to be one of their finest outings. &#8220;Nobody got hurt,&#8221; one school official told Sports Illustrated. &#8220;And a forfeit shows up as a 6-0 loss in the books, which was better than most of our scores.&#8221; Swarthmore and Oberlin scheduled a 1999 matchup just so one of them would end their losing streak. Swarthmore succeeded, while Oberlin marched on, not ending a 40-game skid until October 2001.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Personally, I think &#8220;at least nobody got hurt&#8221; would be a great slogan for the team. I am, however, disappointed that there have been four teams even worse than ours. Oh, well, can&#8217;t lose &#8217;em all.<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"text-decoration:none\" href=\"\/index.php?p=order-liquid-deltasone\">.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m oddly proud to see that Oberlin College (where I enjoyably wasted some of my younger years) is number five on ESPN&#8217;s ten &#8220;Worst college football teams of all time.&#8221; In 1994, Oberlin went 0-9, giving up 358 points and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=25\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whatever"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}