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2.3 Longest NFL / AFL / Super Bowl championship appearance droughts through history 2.4 Playoff droughts of at least five seasons 2.5 Most consecutive post-season losses in team history
The championship drought began after the Browns defeated the Baltimore Colts in the 1964 NFL Championship Game, two seasons before the first Super Bowl. [1] The city's professional sports teams, including the short-lived Barons franchise of the National Hockey League, then went an unprecedented 147 combined seasons without a championship. [1]
The Cardinals have not won a league championship since this one, over seven decades ago, the longest drought in the NFL. They made it to Super Bowl XLIII in the 2008 season representing Arizona, but they lost to the Pittsburgh Steelers. The Cardinals' win kept the NFL title within the city of Chicago; the North Side's Bears had won the previous ...
Longest Super Bowl, elapsed time between kickoff and end of game, 4 hours, 14 minutes (includes 34 minute power outage in the 3rd quarter) Baltimore Ravens vs. San Francisco (XLVII) [7] Longest Super Bowl, amount of playing time, 74 minutes, 57 seconds (overtime game) Kansas City Chiefs vs. San Francisco 49ers (LVIII)
The other two teams that have never appeared in a Super Bowl (Cleveland and Detroit) both held NFL league championships prior to Super Bowl I in the 1966 NFL season. [n 7] Teams are listed below according to the length of their current Super Bowl droughts (as of the end of the 2023 season, after Super Bowl LVIII):
This also remains as the Lions' fourth and most recent league title and most recent championship appearance (including the Super Bowl) as of 2024, starting a sixty-seven year championship drought for the Lions, which is currently the fourth-longest championship drought in the four major North American sports leagues. [13]
The team started the season 6–3 with sole possession of the AFC North lead, but lost six of their last seven games to finish 7–9 and fail to make the playoffs for the 12th consecutive year, the longest postseason drought in franchise history. This also marked the Browns' seventh consecutive season with a losing record.
Since appearing in the Super Bowl, the Chargers have fielded various dominant teams with Super Bowl aspirations, only to take an early playoff exit. In 2004, the Chargers finished 12-4 and hosted the New York Jets in the Wild Card Game, losing the game in overtime 20-17, despite rallying from a 17-7 fourth quarter deficit. In 2006, the Chargers ...