Discussing if the Saints Will Ever Win Another Super Bowl
Out of those teams, Atlanta has it worse.
Say what you want about Buffalo, but making the Super Bowl four years is tough.
Atlanta, Carolina, and Jacksonville fall into a category where just regular success is elusive.
For all the hate Minnesota gets, they’ve at least been consistent contenders or competive.
Try being Cleveland, Jack. They've won all those NFL championships pre-Super Bowl that today, don't really mean much or are categorized as "pre-history" by many NFL analysts, historians, and commentators/fans. If it was pre-66 AFL/NFL merger, it really doesn't have much intrinsic, meaningful historical value, which, to me, is one of the most idiotic, asinine illogical arguments that exists. The Browns have had a lot of great teams since the mid-60's but whether due to a combination of bad in-game coaching, often sheetty, inopportune luck or losing important post-season games on fluky, outrageous memorable, heartbreaking plays (Red Right 88, The Drive, The Fumble) plus Modell relocating the team to Baltimore, winning two SB's, and Cleveland essentially receiving a hollowed-out, expansion team and having to rebuild from the ground up. At least Buffalo, Minnesota and Atlanta can say they've been to a Super Bowl, the Browns can't claim that honor.
Minnesota Vikings of the late 60's/1970's were a very good team that didn't match up well against more powerful, better-talented, stronger AFC teams who had better depth, powerful running games and O-lines, particularly Miami and Oakland, that were like veritable fortresses that pushed, knocked around smaller, leaner Vikings "Purple People Eaters" D-linemen, who by 1976, knew this would likely be their last chance at winning a SB. Unlike Landry's Cowboys of the same era, Bud Grant's Vikings didnt really try to adapt or adopt some aspects of what the AFC teams plus Grant was a great HC but the NFC of the 1970's was a wasteland with only 3 teams that were really good: Dallas, Minnesota, and L.A. Rams and in pretty much all of those SB's, Grant got out-coached.
I think if Scott Norwood had make that 47-yard FG against Giants in Super Bowl XXV, we'd be viewing those early 90's Bills teams in a far more favorable, positive light because after that heartbreaking loss to NYG, while they made 3 more SB trips, their confidence, focus and self-image took a huge hit that affected them subconsciously that trickled down into how they played those other Super Bowls. I also have heard rumors that at least for the first two SB's, Buffalo came into the game maybe a little too over-confident.