Super Bowl Winners & Losers
Written January 22, 2008 by Jack Jones
Each year fans gather together to watch the best from the NFC battle the best from the AFC. The NFL playoffs draw some of the biggest fan bases and TV audiences of today. While each playoff game is exciting and fun for almost every fan of the game. The Super Bowl is the best of them all. Fans from every team all over the league gather together for this one special game. Fans spend all season hoping to have a chance of seeing their team make the historic run to the Super Bowl, and only dream that their team wins the game. While fans of some teams have been spoiled with multiple victories, others have had to suffer through gut wrenching losses, and few have never even had the chance of seeing their team play.
The first Super Bowl was won by the Green Bay Packers in 1967, and the most recent by the Indianapolis Colts last year. This year the New England Patriots will face the New York Giants in Super Bowl XLII. While each team has been to the game before this will be the first match-up between the two teams. The NFC holds the overall edge by the slimmest of margins winning twenty-one times to the AFC’s twenty wins. While each conference has had its shares of ups and downs, both conferences have led by seven games over the other. Though the NFC won the first two, by Super Bowl XV the AFC held the edge of seven games over the NFC. Things quickly turned though as the NFC went on a tear winning fifteen out of the next 16, before the Denver Broncos won back-to-back titles in the late 1990’s. During that stretch the NFC won thirteen straight times, with multiple victories coming from the Dallas Cowboys, San Francisco 49ers, New York Giants, and the Washington Redskins. The 49ers won a total of four during that stretch while the Cowboys were close behind with three. The AFC longest winning streak is five games, and they are currently on a 4 game winning streak heading into this year’s game. The AFC has returned to the glory days from long ago as they have currently won eight out of the last ten games.
There have been four teams to go to the Super Bowl and never lose. The 49ers are an incredible 5-0, while the Baltimore Ravens, New York Jets, and Tampa Bay Buccaneers have went once and came out victorious. On the flip side of that nine teams have came up short handed each times they have showed up. The two most noticeable are the Minnesota Vikings and the Buffalo Bills. Bills fans were heart broken a devastating four straight years, as they were unable to finish the job. Fans of the Cowboys have got to watch their team play a total of eight times. Close behind them at six are the Broncos and Steelers, this year will also mark the sixth time for the Patriots. There have been six teams that have never made it to play on Super Bowl Sunday. The Cleveland Browns, Houston Texans, Jacksonville Jaguars, Detroit Lions, New Orleans Saints, and the Arizona Cardinals. So Patriots and Giants fans, when one of your teams lose this year just remember those fans that have never even had the chance to cheer for their team in the biggest game of the year.
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