Most Dominant Sports Teams Ever

In rugby union, there is only one gold standard: the All Blacks. With a ridiculously high win percentage over the history of the international game, any loss by the All Blacks is an upset. If the All Blacks played every international team or every team that qualified for the World Cup in a manner similar to the '96 Bulls, they would be shocked with a win percentage as low as the Bulls. The consistency with which a country as small as New Zealand turns out rugby players that stand head and shoulders above the rest of the world is astounding.

Entering the season, the rivalry between the seemingly emerging dynasty, the Orlando Magic, and the Chicago Bulls was supposed to be the NBA's answer to the Cowboys-49ers rivalry in the NFL. But the Bulls absolutely put the Magic to shame. It was so bad that Shaquille O'Neal threw a tantrum after getting swept out of the Eastern Conference Finals and then left Orlando altogether. That was how good these Bulls were. They started the season in historically dominant fashion and were the first team to ever reach 70+ wins in NBA history, finishing with a 72-10 regular season mark. They blew past their Eastern Conference opponents, going 11-1 to reach the NBA Finals, then took a decisive 3-0 series lead against the very talented 64-18 Seattle SuperSonics, and ultimately won the NBA Finals with no doubt as to who the best team in the league was. The Bulls of the '90s were one of the best sports franchises in history, period, and this was far and away the best and most dominant of those teams.

This team absolutely manhandled all of the NFL. They did things in modern-day football that were designed to never happen. Don't let the Super Bowl loss make you forget how they reduced every team, including great teams, to rubble week in and week out, all while setting multiple records. Forget the '72 Dolphins. They couldn't hold a candle to the '07 Patriots.

Greatest sports team in history to not win the title! Terrible luck just hit them. In my opinion, they are the best team ever.

The 1927 Yankees are the greatest ever in sports, let me just say that. This team deserves to be ahead of the 2007 Patriots. The Yankees won 114 in the regular season, then went 11-2 in the playoffs. The Patriots absolutely dominated the regular season, but you're only dominant when you don't bow to anyone. New England was only the second best that year.

The '98 team represents what baseball is all about with four true Hall of Famers: Tim Raines, Joe Torre, Derek Jeter, and Mariano Rivera. It'll take a superhuman team to match the Yankees' four World Championships in five years (1996, 1998-2000).

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Ten years at the top of the ICC Test rankings. This team, collected from a group of tiny islands, had the entire world in a chokehold. Graham Gooch probably didn't expect the decade-long tear these guys went on after he threatened to "make them grovel."

If you extend this to the mid-90s, West Indies cricket did not lose a test series in 15 years. They played 29 test match series and never lost any of them.

With players like Richards, Lloyd, Garner, Marshall, and Ambrose, they terrorized and demolished all opposition, home and away.

Greatest college football team ever, with the 1971 Husker team close behind. They were totally dominant in every phase of the game and never had a team challenge them. They destroyed #2 Florida in the Fiesta Bowl 62-24. I am a huge college football fan and doubt that there will ever be another team like the 1995 Huskers. The backups in '95 may have been ranked in the top 5. They were that good!

This should probably be #2 to the 1927 Yankees. Definitely the most dominant college team of all time. Only Miami homers don't agree with this. Everyone with a brain knows that, just like Jordan and Pelé, the only real debate is who is #2. It is very unlikely we will see a team that dominant in college football ever again. That team was Tom Osborne's gift to the world, and true football fans are indebted to him for it.

I think the Celtics are the best team in all of sports. They won 11 titles in 13 years, including 8 in a row.

Easily the best college team of all time, with easily the best college player of all time, Lew Alcindor (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar), whose UCLA teams lost only 2 games in 4 years. Also, the best college basketball coach of all time, John Wooden, who won 10 NCAA national championships in 12 years.

Until they lost to the USA, they hadn't lost in nearly 50 games, winning four Olympic titles.

The defense changed the way NFL offenses approached the game. The 46 defense spelled doom for the traditional pro-set offense the NFL commonly ran in the '80s. The Dolphins relied on Dan Marino's super-quick release and an early version of the spread offense to hand the Bears their one defeat that year. Being without starting QB Jim McMahon was also a big factor. When it comes to the word "dominating," the '85 Bears simply demolished and demoralized teams. Starting quarterbacks were routinely knocked out of games. Over the years, that approach to defense was gradually legislated out of the game by the league to promote player safety and further encourage the passing game.

It was a perfect storm of volatile personalities and talent across the board who, for one season (and many thought it should have been three or four), left an indelible impression on the sports world. They drew in the mainstream public like few sports teams ever had, before or since. The offense was nothing to sneeze at, either. It was #2 in scoring that year, carried by arguably the greatest running back (and player!) in NFL history, Walter "Sweetness" Payton. Defenses couldn't simply key solely on Payton as they had in years prior. Jim McMahon's passing, willingness and awareness to audible out of plays called in by Mike Ditka, and overall leadership inspired the rest of the team to blaze a path of destruction through the rest of the league.

There may have been teams with more discipline, execution, or mastery of Xs and Os. But the '85 Bears were dynamic, revolutionary, and thoroughly dominating. They captured the hearts and minds of the world that year, marching through the season to the Super Bowl title like Sherman through Georgia.

They won every head-to-head series. They folded in the playoffs, but the regular season was ridiculous.

The 1992 United States men's Olympic basketball team, nicknamed the "Dream Team," was the first American Olympic team to feature active professional players from the National Basketball Association (NBA). The team has been described by American journalists as the greatest sports team ever assembled. The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame called the team "the greatest collection of basketball talent on the planet." At the 1992 Summer Olympics held in Barcelona, the team defeated its eight opponents by an average of 44 points en route to the gold medal against Croatia. Chuck Daly served as coach, assisted by Lenny Wilkens, P. J. Carlesimo, and Mike Krzyzewski.

The team scored more than 100 points in all games, the first to do so in Olympic history. Daly said, "It was like Elvis and the Beatles put together." The starting five: Earvin "Magic" Johnson, Michael Jordan, Charles Barkley, Karl Malone, and Patrick Ewing. The top scorer of the team was Charles Barkley.

Undefeated in 2014. Over an 85% win rate and one of the oldest teams in sport (since 1884).

What I have heard and records say the same. The team, losses with low margin against Indian hockey team considered as a good team that time.

The most dominant and best hockey team of the era. They won the Olympic gold medal a record six consecutive times.

They won the championship. Nine players went to the NBA. The "second" team reached the finals the next two years, winning again in 1998.