And the Detroit Lions and Jacksonville Jags are gonna meet in the Superbowl........................
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Superbowl facts! The Detroit Lions, Cleveland Browns (current iteration), Jacksonville Jaguars, and Houston Texans are the only current teams to have never played in a Super Bowl.
Detroit did play in NFL Championships prior to the establishment of the Super Bowl in the 1966-67 season, as did the original Cleveland Browns. The latter two are expansion teams (as is the new iteration of the Browns) so they don’t have as many years of history to work with.
Cleveland is weird because the original Cleveland Browns team that became the Ravens never played in a Super Bowl during their time in Cleveland, but did play (and win) as the Ravens. So the city of Cleveland is shut out over two franchises. Similarly, the city of Houston is shut out over two teams — Houston Oilers and Houston Texans — but the team that was the Oilers went on to the Super Bowl as the Tennessee Titans.
What’s funny is that Jacksonville actually was one game away from the Super Bowl in just their second year.
In fact, both Carolina and Jacksonville made it to their Conference championship games in their second year.
The NFL loves to recycle old team names.
The NY Jets were previously the Titans.
The KC Chiefs were previously the Dallas Texans.
The Buccaneers, Colts, Cowboys, Giants, Lions, Panthers, and Texans are all recycled team names......................