The 12 NFL Teams Who Have Never Won the Super Bowl — beragampengetahuan – Beragampengetahuan

7) Cincinnati Bengals

Championship Drought – 53 seasons

Closest They Have Come:

Lost Super Bowls in 1981 & 1988 seasons

The Bad Luck:

Bengals fans will have a particular distaste for the San Francisco 49ers, who beat their team in both the franchise’s Super Bowl losses during the 1980s.

Both contests resulted in one-score losses for Cincinnati. Super Bowl XXIII was easily the more heartbreaking loss. In the final moments of the game, 49ers quarterback Joe Montana led an 11-play, 92-yard touchdown drive to take the lead in the final minutes.

A moment in NFL history coined simply as, “The Drive.” The Bengals have not even reached a Conference Championship game since. 

Championship Drought: 55 seasons

Closest They Have Come:

Lost Super Bowls in 1998 & 2016 seasons:

The Bad Luck

Atlanta fans should rank near the top of most people’s fan base pain rankings lists. The best regular-season team in franchise history boasted a 14-2 record in 1998. Before being blown away by a John Elway and Terrell Davis inspired Denver Broncos at Super Bowl XXXIII.

Need we say any more about the Super Bowl loss to New England? I’ll spare the details for any Atlanta fans reading. 

5) Buffalo Bills

Championship Drought: 55 seasons

Closest They Have Come:

Lost Super Bowls in 1990, 1991, 1992 & 1993 seasons

The Bad Luck:

No team has ever reached the Super Bowl four consecutive seasons in a row. Making the Bills lack of success at the big game in the early 1990s even more heartbreaking.

Losing to the heavily favoured Dallas Cowboys in 1992 & 1993 is one thing. However, Buffalo was seen as a good match for the 1991 Washington Redskins, and the loss to the New York Giants in Super Bowl XXV is infamous in NFL circles. Kicker Scott Norwood missed the game-winning 47-yard field goal “wide-right,” as time expired. Heartbreak for the Buffalo Bills once again.

4) Los Angeles Chargers

Championship Drought: 57 seasons

Closest They Have Come: 

Lost AFL Championship Games in 1963 & 1964, Super Bowl Loss in 1994 season

The Bad Luck:

The Chargers have an AFL Championship Title to their name going back to the 1963 season. Based in San Diego from 1961 – 2016, the franchise came closest to Super Bowl glory in the 1994 season. 

However, quarterback Dan Fouts and company ran into a buzzsaw known as the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl XXIX. 49ers quarterback Steve Young threw six touchdown passes, three to fellow Hall of Famer Jerry Rice, leading his side to a comfortable 49-26 victory. 

3) Tennessee Titans 

Championship Drought: 59 seasons

Closest They Have Come:

Lost AFL Championship Games in 1962 & 1967, Super Bowl loss in 1999 season

The Bad Luck:

The Browns came one yard short of reaching the Super Bowl. Try being a Titans fan when their wide receiver Kevin Dyson was tackled one yard short of the goal line as time expired IN the Super Bowl. 

Driving to tie the game against the St Louis Rams, quarterback Steve McNair found his receiver in stride, only for Rams linebacker Mike Jones to make a textbook diving tackle to secure the Rams first Lombardi trophy in franchise history. Tennessee’s wait goes on…

2) Detroit Lions

Championship Drought: 63 seasons

Closest They Have Come: 

Lost Conference Championship Game in 1991 season UNTIL NOW! When they lost it again in 2023, this time to the 49rs.

The Bad Luck:

To this point on the list, Lions fans are the most starved of postseason success, when you consider the history of the team. The franchise has never been to a Super Bowl in 55 attempts. They’ve only reached the final four stage once over the same length of time.

The 1991 team wasn’t even that close really, considering they were blown out 41-10 in the title game by the Washington Redskins. 

The Lions, founded in 1930, is one of the sport’s most historic franchises.

They haven’t won their division since 1993. Before some of the teams on this list were even founded! Such a proud sports city, it’s a shambles this franchise hasn’t even reached the big game at least once. Neutrals without a rooting interest should rally behind the Lions if they ever get close to a Lombardi Trophy…

1) Arizona Cardinals 

Championship Drought: 73 seasons

Closest They Have Come:

Lost 1948 season NFL Championship Game, Lost Super Bowl in 2008 season

The Bad Luck:

Another truly historic franchise. The Cardinals fan base has been faced with mediocrity more often than not wherever this franchise has been based over the decades.

Originally based in Chicago, then St Louis, and since 1988 in Arizona, the Cardinals have reached the final game of the season just once since winning the 1947 NFL Championship 73 seasons ago. 

The Super Bowl loss came in Super Bowl XLIII to the Pittsburgh Steelers, which does have an argument to be the greatest Super Bowl of all time. The Steelers marched down the field in the final minutes of the game, taking a four-point lead with just 35 seconds left on the clock.

Quarterback Ben Roethlisbergers’ threading the needle throw, finding Santonio Holmes toe-tapping in the back corner of the endzone is regarded as one of the greatest plays in NFL history. 

The Cardinals meanwhile continue to wait. 73 years!

Some fun facts about 1947, the last year the Cardinals won a Championship, to end the article:

• The UFO allegedly found as part of the Roswell Incident is dated back to July 7th, 1947

• The Polaroid Camera was first demonstrated by inventor Edwin Land in 1947.

• The Classical Holiday Film, “Miracle on 34th Street” first premiered in theatres.

• Jackie Robinson took to the field for the Brooklyn Dodgers becoming the first African-American to play in Major League Baseball.

• Her Royal Highness Princess Elizabeth married the Duke of Edinburgh at Westminster Abbey, London.

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