Cleveland won a pro sports championship and the Chicago Cubs broke a 108-year World Series championship drought this year. Weird things are happening. Maybe we shouldn’t dismiss the Detroit Lions just yet.
Let’s run down the Lions’ history once again. The Lions haven’t won a playoff game since the 1991 season. That was their only playoff win since 1957. Detroit has never made the Super Bowl. The other three teams to not make the Super Bowl are the Cleveland Browns, Houston Texans and Jacksonville Jaguars. The Browns’ first NFL season was 1950 (or 1999, for the current iteration), Jacksonville was an expansion team in 1995 and the Texans’ first season was 2002.