What Team In Nfl Never Won A Superbowl?
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The answer may surprise you – it’s actually the Buffalo Bills! They’ve made it to the big game four times, but never came out on top.
Introduction
The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league consisting of 32 teams, divided equally between the National Football Conference (NFC) and the American Football Conference (AFC). The NFL is one of the four major North American professional sports leagues, the highest professional level of American football in the world, the wealthiest professional sport league by revenue, and the sport league with the most valuable teams.
The Super Bowl is the annual championship game of the National Football League (NFL). The game is the culmination of a regular season that begins in the late summer of the previous year. Normally, Roman numerals are used to identify each game, rather than the year in which it is held. For example, Super Bowl XLVII was played on February 3, 2013, following the 2012 regular season. The winning team receives the Vince Lombardi Trophy, named after NFL coach Vince Lombardi, who led the Green Bay Packers to victories in the first two Super Bowls. The trophy itself is a sterling silver football mounted on a parcel-gilt base inside a preferential blue display case.
So far 49 NFL teams have appeared in at least one Super Bowl . As previously mentioned only 32 teams are currently active in NFL. So we can easily narrow down our search to 17 teams that never won a Superbowl as of 2020.
The teams that have never won a Super Bowl
Out of the 32 teams in the NFL, there are 11 teams that have never won a Super Bowl. They are the Arizona Cardinals, Atlanta Falcons, Buffalo Bills, Carolina Panthers, Cincinnati Bengals, Cleveland Browns, Detroit Lions, Houston Texans, Jacksonville Jaguars, Los Angeles Chargers, and the Minnesota Vikings.
The Cleveland Browns
The Cleveland Browns are a professional American football team in Cleveland, Ohio. The Browns compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the American Football Conference (AFC) North division.
The Browns played their inaugural season in 1946 as a charter member of the All-America Football Conference (AAFC). The team played its home games at Cleveland Stadium on the shores of Lake Erie, also known as “The Mistake by the Lake”. They joined the NFL in 1950 after three seasons in the AAFC. The franchise suffered through a long period of mediocrity and futility from 1999 to 2016, highlighted by an 0–16 record in 2017, which was the worst single-season record in NFL history.
The Detroit Lions
The Detroit Lions have never won a Super Bowl and they have only been to the big game once in their history. They lost that game to the Green Bay Packers in what was then considered to be the biggest upset in NFL history. The Lions have been close to winning a title several times, but they always seem to come up short.
The Houston Texans
The Houston Texans are a professional American football team based in Houston, Texas. The Texans compete in the National Football League as a member club of the league’s American Football Conference South division. The team plays its home games at NRG Stadium, and began play in 2002 as an expansion team after Houston’s previous franchise, the Houston Oilers, relocated to Nashville, Tennessee where they eventually became the Titans. The Texans were the first NFL franchise in Texas upon their 2002 debut.
Despite having never won a Super Bowl, the Texans have made the playoffs seven times in franchise history: AFC wild-card berths in 2011, 2012, 2016, 2018 AFC South division championships in 2011, 2012, 2015, 2016 In 2010, they made history by becoming the first team in NFL history to have never won a game to win their division ( finishing with a then-franchise best record of 6–10), and repeated this feat again in 2011 with an AFC South championship. (a Franchsie best 10–6 record).
Why these teams have never won a Super Bowl
The Buffalo Bills, Detroit Lions, Cleveland Browns, and Houston Texans have never won a Super Bowl. The Bills and Lions have the longest playoff droughts in the NFL, last making the playoffs in 1999. The Browns last made the playoffs in 2002, while the Texans made the playoffs for the first time in franchise history in 2011. All four teams have never won a Super Bowl.
The Cleveland Browns
The Browns have never won a Super Bowl and have only been to the big game once, in 1986. They lost that year to the Denver Broncos, 27-21. The Browns have been in operation since 1946 and are one of only four teams who have never won a Super Bowl (the other three are the Detroit Lions, Houston Texans, and Jacksonville Jaguars).
The team has been through some tough times recently, including a 1-15 record in 2016. However, they seem to be turning things around under head coach Hue Jackson, and they are currently 2-1-1 in 2018.
The Detroit Lions
The Detroit Lions have never won a Superbowl. They have been to the playoffs ten times, but they have only won one playoff game. The last time they made the playoffs was in 2016, when they lost in the first round.
The Houston Texans
The Houston Texans are a professional American football team based in Houston, Texas. The Texans compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the American Football Conference (AFC) South division. The team plays its home games at NRG Stadium, and began play in 2002 as an expansion team after Houston’s previous franchise, the Houston Oilers, relocated to Nashville, Tennessee where they became the Tennessee Titans. The Texans were the first NFL franchise in Houston, and along with the fellow AFC South teams Jacksonville Jaguars and Indianapolis Colts, are one of only three current NFL teams to have never played in an AFC or NFC Championship Game.
Conclusion
In conclusion, there is no one team in the NFL that has never won a Super Bowl. There are, however, a few teams that have never even made it to the big game. These include the Cleveland Browns, Detroit Lions, and Houston Texans.
