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The popularity of the Washington R*******, despite Washington’s lemming-like insistence on religiously following the team regardless of its failures on the field and off, has been in the toilet for some time. But we never realized things were this bad (okay, maybe we did): Dan Snyder’s cash cow is the second-worst franchise in professional sports.

The Redskins, who at least had local company with their dismal rankings over the last two years, finished 121st out of 122 teams in this year’s ESPN Ultimate Standings. This is sad for a number of reasons. For starters, the teams that are ahead of John Beck and Company, as Dan Steinberg notes, are one sorry bunch of losers — when you’re being beaten out on several metrics by an NFL team that might move to Canada (Buffalo Bills), an NBA team that will probably move to Los Angeles (Sacramento Kings), an NHL team that hasn’t been relevant since the mid-1980s (New York Islanders), and the friggin’ New York Mets, well, that should really be a violent wake up call that you are not doing a very good job. Of course, we know this won’t change anything — after all, there are PARTY DECKS to be built, and still one more ranking spot to fall.

I guess it could be worse: we could live in Cincinnati.