Super Bowl LVI: Bengals will look to get off this infamous NFL roster

The National Football League is about to play the final duel of the 2021 season with the Cincinnati Bengals to face Los Angeles Rams at SoFi Stadium to define the team that manages to win the title of the campaign and the Vince Lombardi Trophy that accredits them as champions.

The league, with various mechanisms such as giving the first pick of college talent to the worst team from last season or the salary cap rule to balance the retention of talent from the 32 franchises have achieved some parity in the competition with 20 of their teams having won at least one NFL championship.

These are the teams that have never won a Super Bowl in history

American Conference

Cincinnati Bengals- The Ohio team will have a chance to get off this list and become the 21st team to boast its first Super Bowl championship and the first to do so since 2017, when the Philadelphia Eagles did it. So far, the Bengals have qualified for two “Super Sundays” with the same number of losses against the San Francisco 49ers.

Tennessee Titans- The former Houston Oilers got their only ticket to the Super Bowl 22 years ago, when they played against the Rams, then from St. Louis and were one yard away from achieving the first tie in the history of the final matchup in the NFL. However, they have failed to establish themselves as a powerhouse in the league and are even the only team to waste three seasons. with the best record in their conference, including 2021 when they fell to the Bengals.

Buffalo Bills- Despite his defeat with the Kansas City Chiefs in the Divisional round, the Bills are one of the main favorites to reach Super Bowl LVII and get their first trip to the big game since 1993, their fifth in history, where they will seek to be crowned after four years without being able to tie the Vince Lombardi trophy in the early 1990s.

Los Angeles Chargers- With Justin Herbert at the controls, the Chargers will seek their first AFC championship since 1994 when they reached their only Super Bowl, where they lost 49-26 to the San Francisco 49ers and their first title since 1963 when they won it in the old American Football League.

Cleveland Browns- Despite being one of the dominant forces in the NFL in the 1950s and early 1960s with Otto Graham at quarterback and later Jim Brown at running back, the Browns have not even been able to reach the Super Bowl, remaining five times in the prelude to the big game. Three with the old National Football League and three AFC Championships.

Jacksonville Jaguars- In just his second season after getting the expansion franchise, the Jaguars led by Tom Coughlin reached the game that would define the AFC representative for Super Bowl XXXI where they fell to the Patriots. Three years later they did the same against the Titans on the eve of the XXXIV edition of the game. After some difficult seasons in 2017 they seemed to have a chance, but a late return from Brady New England buried their hopes. Now they will look to do it with Trevor Lawrence at the controls, as well as the first overall pick of 2022 in the Draft..

Houston Texans- The youngest team in the National Football League have failed not even touching the prelude to the Super Bowl, with four trips to the Divisional Round of the Playoffs in the American Conference in 2011, 2012, 2016 and 2019, losing every opportunity against Baltimore, New England twice and one more against Kansas City.

National Conference

Minnesota Vikings – The Vikings are, along with the Bills, the teams with the most trips to the Super Bowl without being able to get their first Vince Lombardi Trophy. The Nordics reached all of their trips in seven years, although they fell to the Chiefs in Super Bowl IV, the Dolphins in the eighth edition of the game, along with the Steelers (SB IX) and the Raiders (SB XI). Since then, those of the North Division of the National Conference have fallen in six preludes to “super Sunday”.

Arizona Cardinals – After coming within two minutes of clinching their first championship since leaving St. Louis, Missouri in Super Bowl XLIII after Ben Roethlisberger’s touchdown pass to Santonio Holmes, the Cardinals haven’t been able to return to the big game, not with Carson Palmer, Josh Rosen or Kyler Murray, who has been in control of the desert offense for two years.

Atlanta Falcons- After his historic 25-point collapse to the New England Patriots, the Falcons fell behind in the basement of the NFC South and not even the talents of Matt Ryan or Julio Jones, who left for Tennessee in 2021, could bring back the Georgia squad, although fans in the city have been able to celebrate Major League Baseball Braves or Bulldogs championships. in college football.

Carolina Panthers- In a similar fashion, Cam Newton’s project seemed to be well on its way to finally bringing the Vince Lombardi Trophy to Charlotte. However, when they reached their second Super Bowl in history, they were helpless against the powerful defense of the Denver Broncos in the 50th edition of the big game. Since that game they have only qualified for one postseason in 2017.

Detroit Lions – The Detroit Lions are the only team in the NFC that have never been able to reach the Super Bowlbeing their closest opportunity in 1991 when they brushed “Super Sunday” before falling to the Washington Redskins who would go on to win Super Bowl XXVI with Barry Sanders as their offensive spark plug.