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Cleveland looking to finally bag title
Cleveland Plain Dealer, OH - 2 hours ago
The Express-News ran a picture of a Browns fan wearing a bag over his head with the CBS-friendly message, "Cleveland Browns Stink. ...


Sun, 10 Jun 2007 08:49:59 GMT

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[Lefty Noob]

15,506 days since the Browns last won a title.

Forgetting the fact that the Cavs may end the drought for the city, how much longer before the football team will be crowned champions again?

[azrael492]

Has there been another city that has had a championship drought as long as Cleveland. They come close, but never win. They have to be the city most starved for a title. They may have won a MSL title with the Cleveland Crunch, but does that count???

[Lefty Noob]

Interesting question, so I did some digging over at Wikipedia.

Drought prone cities
There are a few US cities which are believed to have championship droughts:

Cleveland
Seattle
Philadelphia
Houston
Buffalo
San Diego

Cleveland has waited longer than any other city with three major sports franchises to win a title. The last time a Cleveland professional sports team won a championship was in 1964 when the Cleveland Browns won the NFL Championship (pre-Super Bowl era). The Cleveland Indians last won the World Series in 1948 (2nd longest drought in MLB) and the Cleveland Cavaliers have also never won an NBA championship. The city even had a short lived hockey team in the NHL called The Barons, which never won a championship either. In 2004, ESPN named Cleveland the most tortured sports city in America.[1]

Seattle has not won a major sports championship in any sport other than basketball and hockey. The Seattle Metropolitans won the Stanley cup in 1917 (the first American team to do so), the Seattle Super Sonics (NBA) won a title in 1979, and the Seattle Storm (WNBA) won in 2003. Neither the Seahawks nor the Mariners have ever won a championship. Seattle nearly won a championship when the Seahawks represented the city in Super Bowl XL in 2006. They fell by a score of 21-10 to the champion Pittsburgh Steelers.

Philadelphia has seen a drought of a championship titles since 1983. Some of the fans cite the Curse of Billy Penn to be the reason. Indeed, of the U.S. cities with teams from four major sports, Philadelphia's period without championships is the longest.

Houston has a similar drought of championship titles. The city's baseball team, the Houston Astros, has appeared to date in only one World Series in 2005 and lost. Their football team (the Houston Texans) has never won a title; however, it should be noted that they have only been in the NFL since 2002, replacing the former Houston Oilers. Its basketball team, the Houston Rockets, have won 2 championships: in 1994 and 1995.

Those who believe in the Buffalo Curse cite as examples the four consecutive Super Bowl losses by the Buffalo Bills from 1990-1993, and their failure to even reach the conference playoffs in subsequent years as well as the failure of the Buffalo Sabres to ever win the Stanley Cup. Hearts were broken once again in 2006, when the Sabres lost to the Carolina Hurricanes in game 7 of the conference finals. Even though the Sabres made it back to the conference finals the next year, they lost again. It is notable that the Buffalo Bills won the AFL championship in 1964 and 1965.

San Diego's two teams the San Diego Padres and the San Diego Chargers have never won a World Series or Super Bowl, which their failures are known to be from the San Diego Sports Curse. The Padres have the most World Series appearances of any team without a World Series championship. The Chargers won the 1963 AFL championship and have only appeared in 1 Super Bowl.

SOURCE - Drought (sport) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia