Championship droughts for NFL playoff teams:
1957-Detroit Lions-2nd longest league overall (1947 Chicago/St Louis/Phoenix/Arizona Cardinals franchise is longest) but longest current wait to play in Super Bowl as Cardinals franchise did against Pittsburgh in Super Bowl XLIII in 2009.
1965-Buffalo Bills-AFC Champions before Super Bowl created.
1973-Miami Dolphins
1994-San Francisco 49ers.
1995-Dallas Cowboys
1998-Cleveland Browns (new team added in 1998 when original franchise transferred to Baltimore).
2002-Houston Texans-Expansion team to have yet to appear in a Super Bowl.
2008-Pittsburgh Steelers
2010-Green Bay Packers
2012-Baltimore Ravens
2017-Philadelphia Eagles (previous championship was in 1960).
2020-Tampa Bay Buccaneers
2021-Los Angeles Rams
2022-Kansas City Chiefs (defending Super Bowl champions).
The Bills lost to the Chiefs for the AFL Championship in 1966 for the right to go to the first Super Bowl. AFL championships are all we have to hang our hats on around here. The Browns and the Packers were the class of pro football in the mid 60’s. It would have been interesting to see how those Bills teams would have fared against them.