The error in your list is with the Cleveland Browns. The Browns that were founded in 1944 became the Baltimore Ravens, but the city of Cleveland retained the rights to the team name and colors in a trust. When the NFL expanded again in 1999, Cleveland got a new team, which became the Browns. The NFL played some shenanigans to call Baltimore the expansion team, but Baltimore got all of Cleveland’s players, coaches and owner, and when Cleveland got another team 3 years later, it was stocked through the expansion draft. So, Cleveland has never won, but they have only been in existence for 25 years.
Cleveland got another team 3 years later, it was stocked through the expansion draft. So, Cleveland has never won, but they have only been in existence for 25 years.
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Technically true, but moot in the context of this thread and superbowl droughts and Kat Timf sharing stories of her family’s strife as fans.
Browns fans are more loyal than any fanbase, pretty much ever. No one else kept a moderate level of seats filled during such periods of ineptitude and loss to the same degree than Browns fans have. I’m not sure if that’s even a compliment. Depends how you look at it. But not only did they get a bad team back (theirs was really the expansion team, in effect) but they got the same colors and name, and a terrible run ever since. So in the context of a team drought from the perspective of a city and fan base, it counts.