When you bring up the name Abe Gibron, you know you’re in trouble. The last time a Chicago Bears head coach needed to worry about replacing Gibron as the worst in team history, John Fox rattled off a few wins before he parted Chicago, thus keeping big Abe’s legacy in tact.
For those of you unfamiliar with Gibron, his .274 win percentage, accumulated from the 1972-1974 seasons has endured as the worst coaching record in team history for almost half a century. Gibron was hired after Jim Dooley’s four-year run as head ball coach from 1968-1971 had set the record for worst winning percentage at .