What NFL Teams Do Not Have a Super Bowl Win?
If you’re a football fan, you probably know that the New England Patriots have won the most Super Bowls of any team in the NFL. But what about the teams that have never won a Super Bowl? Here’s a look at the NFL teams that have yet to taste victory in the big game.
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 Super Bowl is the annual championship game of the National Football League (NFL).
Tampa Bay Buccaneers
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are a professional American football team based in Tampa, Florida. The Buccaneers compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league’s National Football Conference (NFC) South division. The club joined the NFL in 1976 as an expansion team and played its first season in the American Football Conference (AFC) West division as part of an NFL realignment plan that occurred that year. Within the same conference, the Buccaneers joined the NFC in 2002, switching conferences with the AFC’s Houston Texans.
The Buccaneers are one of two NFL teams to have never played in a Super Bowl, along with the Cleveland Browns, and one of only four teams to have never won a league championship, joining the Browns, Detroit Lions, and New York Jets. They are also the first team since 1970 to start 10 rookies in a single season.
Cleveland Browns
The Cleveland Browns are a professional American football team based 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 play their home games at FirstEnergy Stadium, which opened in 1999, with administrative offices and training facilities in Berea, Ohio. The Browns’ official colors are brown, orange, and white. They are unique among the 32 member franchises of the NFL in that they do not have a logo on their helmets and are the only team named after a specific person, original head coach Paul Brown.
The franchise was founded in 1945 by businessman Arthur B. McBride and coach Paul Brown as a charter member of the All-America Football Conference (AAFC). The Browns dominated the AAFC, compiling a 47–4–3 record (.917 winning percentage) in the league’s four seasons and winning its championship in each of them. When the AAFC folded after the 1949 season, the Browns joined the NFL along with three other AAFC teams: the San Francisco 49ers, the original Baltimore Colts, and the original Cleveland Indians (a team now known as the Buffalo Bills).
Detroit Lions
The Detroit Lions have not won a Super Bowl. They have played in four (V, XII, XXIII, XL), but lost them all. The Lions last NFL Championship occurred in 1957, before the advent of the Super Bowl. They play their home games at Ford Field in Downtown Detroit.
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.
The Texans were established in 2002 as the Houston Texans expansion team, and began competitive play in the 2002 NFL season. The franchise is owned byCalvin c. Snyder, who purchased the team in 1999. While the team mainly struggled in its early years, they did manage to make the playoffs for the first time in franchise history back in 2011 thanks to a late season surge led by rookie quarterback T.J. Yates. They would go on to lose to the Baltimore Ravens in their first ever playoff game 20-13.
