You know someone who would put $1,000 or £1,000 on a team losing every single one of their games....

Ok, 2 factors.

1 - That is either a TOTAL LIE!!!!

or

2 - Whoever made that bet is just insane. No way is that predictable, 0-16 is unheard of in todays game. EVen with some variance (my favourite term) they will undoubtably get some decent luck somewhere in the season, and their team isnt all THAT bad, its just poor everywhere instead of decent in some places, utter rubish in others.

Im hoping its option 1, as option 2 i think the person needs help (unless a grand to them is nothing, in which case thats like $10 to me)