y - Clinched Division
x - Tied For Division
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** Special Note ** ~ The Boston Yanks joined the league as an expansion team. Also, the Brooklyn
Dodgers changed their name to Brooklyn Tigers. Meanwhile, both the Cleveland Rams and the Eagles
resumed their traditional operations. But the Pittsburgh Steelers then merged with the Chicago
Cardinals for this one season due to player shortages as a result of World War II. The combined
team, known as Card-Pitt, played half of their home games in each city.
The season is notable in that it featured two winless teams (the only such case in NFL history
after the league stabilized from its earlier years of revolving door membership when winless
teams were much more common) as both Brooklyn and Card-Pitt went on to finish 0–10. Since 1944,
only four teams have gone winless in the NFL for an entire season: the 1960 Dallas Cowboys (0–11–1),
the 1976 Tampa Bay Buccaneers (0–14), the 1982 Baltimore Colts (0–8–1), and the latest was
the 2008 Detroit Lions (0–16).
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