What NFL Team Has Never Won a Super Bowl?

The NFL Super Bowl is the biggest and most important American football game of the year.
While all 32 teams have played in the big game, only a handful have ever won it.
So, which NFL teams have never won a Super Bowl?

Introduction

The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league. It was formed in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association (APFA) before renaming itself in 1922 as the National Football League. NFL teams compete each year to win the Super Bowl, the league’s championship game.

As of 2020, there are 32 NFL teams. Of those teams, 12 have never won a Super Bowl.

The teams that have never won a Super Bowl

There have been a total of 54 Super Bowls since the first one in 1967. Of the 32 NFL teams, 11 of them have never won a Super Bowl. That means that nearly 1/3 of the NFL has never won the big game. Who are these teams?

Buffalo Bills

The Buffalo Bills have never won a Super Bowl. They have been to the big game four times, but they have not been able to get the job done. The Bills last went to the Super Bowl in 1993, when they lost to the Dallas Cowboys. The Bills have not been back to the playoffs since 1999, and they have not had a winning season since 2004.

Cincinnati Bengals

The Cincinnati Bengals are a professional American football franchise based in Cincinnati, Ohio. The Bengals compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league’s American Football Conference (AFC) North division. Their home stadium is Paul Brown Stadium in downtown Cincinnati.

The Bengals were founded in 1966 as a member of the American Football League (AFL) by former Cleveland Browns head coach Paul Brown. Brown was the Bengals’ head coach from their inaugural season to 1975. After being dismissed as the Browns’ head coach by Art Modell in January 1963, Brown had shown interest in establishing another NFL franchise in Ohio and looked at both Cincinnati and Columbus. He ultimately chose the former when an ownership group led by brothers Max and Gabe Kirschner purchased an AFL franchise for $3 million on October 6, 1965, with Brown becoming head coach.

The Bengals have yet to win a Super Bowl despite appearing in two Super Bowls during the 1980s: XVI and XXIII, losing both times to the San Francisco 49ers. They have won six AFC North titles (2005, 2009, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2018), five AFC Wild Card berths (1981,, 1988,, 1990, 2005), and have reached eight playoff appearances since 1970; however they have never advanced further than the AFC Championship Game nor hosted/played in a Super Bowl game.

Cleveland Browns

The Browns have never won a Super Bowl, but they did win the NFL Championship in 1950, 1954, 1955 and 1964. The team was a charter member of the American Football League (AFL) in 1960 and joined the NFL as part of the AFL-NFL merger in 1970. The Browns have made it to the playoffs 19 times since joining the NFL, but they have yet to make it to the big game.

Detroit Lions

The Detroit Lions have never won a Super Bowl. The franchise has been to the big game three times, but they have lost all three of those appearances. The Lions have been in existence since 1930 and they have yet to hoist the Lombardi Trophy.

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 American Football Conference South division. The team plays its home games at NRG Stadium.

The franchise was founded in 2002, making them the youngest team in the NFL currently. The Texans replaced the city’s previous NFL franchise, the Houston Oilers, which moved to Nashville and eventually became the Tennessee Titans. The team’s majority owner is Cal McNair; they began play in 2002 as an expansion team.

Conclusion

The final answer is that there are currently four NFL teams who have never won a Super Bowl. These teams are the Detroit Lions, the Houston Texans, the Jacksonville Jaguars, and the Cleveland Browns.