THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

ALLEN PARK, Mich. -- The Detroit Lions fired coach Rod Marinelli on Monday, a day after they became the first in NFL history to finish with an 0-16 record.

The Lions issued a news release announcing the firing.

The team planned to open its locker room to the media Monday morning. Marinelli was to be available for comment at a news conference.

The Lions completed their winless season with a loss to Green Bay on Sunday, pushing aside Tampa Bay's 1976 season of 0-14 as the league's worst.

Marinelli won only one of his last 24 games and was 10-38 in three years after former team president Matt Millen gave the former Buccaneers assistant his first head coaching job.

Millen was fired three months ago.

Marinelli was the third coach Millen hired -- following Steve Mariucci and Marty Mornhinweg -- in what has been the NFL's worst eight-season stretch since the second World War.