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2.3 Longest NFL / AFL / Super Bowl championship appearance droughts through history 2.4 Most consecutive post-season losses in team history 2.5 Longest post-season droughts in team history
Longest playoff drought, 25 seasons; Washington Redskins, 1946–1970 Chicago/St. Louis Cardinals, 1949–1973. Longest playoff drought, expansion team, 20 seasons; New Orleans Saints, 1967–1986. Longest playoff drought, active, 12 seasons; New York Jets, 2011–present. Most consecutive seasons participating in playoffs, 11 seasons
The championship drought began after the Browns defeated the Baltimore Colts in the 1964 NFL Championship Game, two seasons before the first Super Bowl. [1] The city's professional sports teams, including the short-lived Barons franchise of the National Hockey League , then went an unprecedented 147 combined seasons without a championship. [ 1 ]
Longest NFC championship game droughts Here's when each NFC team last made an appearance in the NFL semifinals (parenthesis indicates last year a championship game was won): Dallas Cowboys: 1995 ...
The Dallas Cowboys were on the mind of NFL fans on Saturday even as the team failed to make the ... The Cowboys now have the longest NFC Championship drought. Dallas has not been to the conference ...
The Broncos (10-7) visit the Buffalo Bills (13-4) on Sunday in the wild-card round after ending their eight-year playoff drought. Their clincher was a 38-0 shutout of Kansas City's backups Sunday.
Sudden death overtime was finally approved for the NFL championship game in 1946 [7] and has remained in effect ever since. [8] [9] The first playoff game requiring overtime was the 1958 NFL Championship Game. The 1955 and 1960 NFL championship games were played on Monday afternoons, Christmas having fallen on a Sunday in those years.
Longest NFL active playoff droughts. 1. New York Jets: 14 seasons. 2. Denver Broncos: 8 seasons. ... Longest NFL playoff droughts in history. 1t. St. Louis Cardinals: 25 seasons (1949-1974)