[1] The Mechanix, owned by Brent Steepe and was founded in 2010, began play in 2012 as one of the eight charter teams of the league.

The Mechanix suffered what is believed to be the longest losing streak in the history of professional sports: 81 games in a row, stretching over a seven-year period, from April 29, 2017[2] to June 22, 2024.

The Mechanix all-time regular season record is a woeful 17-145 (.105), and the team has gone winless seven times in their twelve-year history.

The club managed to record four victories in 2016,[4] but tumbled to 1-13 in 2017 -- and that lone win would be their last for quite a while, as Detroit would log five straight winless seasons.

[5] The 2020 AUDL season was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but the hapless Mechanix would suffer an even worse tragedy: on February 29, 2020, three members of the team -- Kevin Coulter, Drew Piet, and Michael Cannon -- were killed in a multi-car accident on Interstate 96 on their way to a team practice.