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rhickok1109 wrote:The 49ers firing Jim Harbaugh. They were 46-82 in eight seasons before Harbaugh. After he arrived, they went 44-19 and went to three NFC championship games and a Super Bowl. Since his firing, they've gone 7-25 under two coaches in two seasons.
I don't know how you top that, one of the most boneheaded decisions of all time.
How about the Rams and John Robinson? His departure was never positioned as a "firing" but word has it one (according to articles in the LA Times) of the reasons for his exit was Georgia Frontiere didn't approve of Robinson getting a divorce, seemingly fond of his wife.
That sounds typical. She and Robert Irsay were among the flakiest owners in NFL history. There's a story in "The League" that some sportswriter speculated that the Bert Jones trade was so big that it must have been made by the owners, not the GMs.
Another owner responded, "It couldn't have happened that way, because Georgia never gets up before noon and by then Bob's too drunk to talk to anybody."