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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
Team with the lowest regular season winning percentage to win the Super Bowl, 9–7 (0.563) New York Giants, 2011. Longest playoff game, 82 minutes, 40 seconds; Miami Dolphins vs Kansas City Chiefs, Dec 25, 1971 (2OT, Divisional Round) Longest playoff drought, 25 seasons; Washington Redskins, 1946–1970 Chicago/St. Louis Cardinals, 1949–1973
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):
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 ...
The Eagles won their first Super Bowl and Vince Lombardi Trophy in franchise history and their first championship since 1960, ending the third-longest active championship drought in the NFL at 57 years. [149] Foles won Super Bowl MVP going 28 for 43 with 373 passing yards, three passing touchdowns, one interception, and one receiving touchdown ...
The Eagles players earned $1,090 each and the Rams got $789, about one-third of what was expected with fair weather. [3] [13] Anticipating 70,000 or more in attendance and a large payoff from the gate, [11] [14] the players and owners wanted to postpone the game for a week, but were overridden by Commissioner Bert Bell, reached at home in Philadelphia.
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]