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A total of 20 franchises, including teams that have relocated to another city or changed their name, have won the Super Bowl. [5] There are four NFL teams that have never appeared in a Super Bowl: the Cleveland Browns, Detroit Lions, Jacksonville Jaguars, and Houston Texans, though both the Browns (1950, 1954, 1955, 1964) and Lions (1935, 1952 ...
The Jets' best chance to reach the Super Bowl after the Super Bowl III victory was thwarted by A.J. Duhe in 1983 whose interception return for touchdown on a rain-soaked field in the conference championship game was the decisive score. [114] This remains as the lone postseason meeting in the series. [115]
The Jets won only three games the rest of the way and finished with a record of 4–12. [188] The Jets were again overshadowed by the Giants, who won their third Super Bowl by defeating the previously unbeaten Patriots. [193] Following the 2007 season, Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre had retired.
The Super Bowl victory was the first for an AFL franchise, helping dismiss notions that its teams were inferior to the NFL's and demonstrating they would enter the merger as equals. Namath received Super Bowl MVP honors in the game, while also becoming the first quarterback to win both a college national championship and a major professional ...
This is a list of current National Football League (NFL) franchise post-season and Super Bowl droughts (multiple consecutive seasons of not winning). Listed here are both appearance droughts and winning droughts in almost every level of the NFL playoff system. All 32 active NFL teams have qualified for and won a game in the playoffs.
The Titans were a part of the inaugural season of the American Football League (AFL) in 1960. In 1963, the Titans changed their name to the Jets after a change in ownership. The New York Jets have won one National Football League championship in Super Bowl III. In their 60-season history, they have an overall regular season record of 408 wins ...
Super Bowl III was an American football game played on January 12, 1969, at the Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida. It was the third AFL–NFL Championship Game in professional American football, and the first to officially bear the trademark name "Super Bowl". [2] Super Bowl III is regarded as one of the greatest upsets in both American football ...
The Buccaneers became the first team to play and win a Super Bowl in its home stadium, and only the third to play in their home metro area (alongside the 1979 Los Angeles Rams and 1984 San Francisco 49ers). [72] This was the final Super Bowl in the 16-game schedule era, which began with the 1978 NFL season. The following season, the NFL went to ...