Factoid
There is hope, it seems, for the Lions and Browns. A year ago at this time, neither Arizona nor New Orleans had ever played in a Super Bowl. Now we seem to slowly but surely be ticking off each of the league’s 32 teams.
Ten times in the last 12 Super Bowls, in fact, a team has appeared in the game for the first time. Now we’re running out of teams that have never been to one. Detroit is the last holdout on the NFC side. In the AFC, we’ve got Cleveland, Houston and Jacksonville.
NEW CITIES/TEAMS MAKING THE SUPER BOWL, 1998-present
Season
1998 Atlanta
1999 St. Louis* and Tennessee
2000 Baltimore
2001
2002 Tampa Bay
2003 Carolina
2004
2005 Seattle
2006 Indianapolis**
2007
2008 Arizona
2009 New Orleans
*--Rams played in Super Bowl XIV but were located in Los Angeles
**--Colts played in Super Bowls III & V but were located in Baltimore
- Comments [2]
Readers' Comments
Add a Comment
Already a registered user? Please sign in to add comments.
To add comments, you must become a registered user of our site. To register, please click here.
Posted by ADAM HOLTZ | Jan. 24 at 02:07 PM
The teams that have not played in a SB are.... Texans, Browns, Lions, Jaguars; right? But which of the 32 *cities* has not had a SB participant?
Posted by IAN ALLAN | Jan. 25 at 01:22 AM
All of the other 28 teams have been to a Super Bowl while located in their current city (the Jets and Giants may play in New Jersey and do business in New Jersey, but I consider them to still be in the New York market -- they've still got New York in their name, at least). I noticed in the paper this morning, by the way, that in the last six NFC title games, 10 different teams have been involved. The Saints and Eagles were in two of those games; eight other teams have appeared once.