Best non-championship teams of all time

[Future]

How about those KC teams from the early 90's??

isnt that who the bills beat in the years they went to the Super Bowl?

 

[Cbz40]

!978 Cowboys......

 

[Bob Sacamano]

!978 Cowboys......

how about those 1926 Bears cbz?!!

 

[baj1dallas]

The Scott Norwood Buffalo team.

 

[5Stars]

With all the SB week stuff, I started thinking about teams that were really good but didn't win it all.

1973 Vikings

1976 Steelers, 5 shut outs and gave up just 28 points the final 9 games, best defense ever IMO.

1978 Cowboys

1990 Bills

1994 Cowboys

2001 Rams

The eagles...!



:trophy:

 

[Cbz40]

how about those 1926 Bears cbz?!!

They were ok.......but a little ruff around the edges.

 

[Bob Sacamano]

The eagles...!



:trophy:

they got 80 something years, might as well

Quantity over Quality!!

 

[Bob Sacamano]

They were ok.......but a little ruff around the edges.

you're probably right, they weren't crap compared to the 1912 Princeton squad, now that, was a TEAM! am I right?

 

[ABQCOWBOY]

The Raiders of the early 70s were pretty dang good.

In 72 they went 10-3-1 losing to Pittsburgh 13-7 on the immaculate reception. The Raiders really should have won that game. Steelers would eventually go on to lose to the Miami Dolphins in the conference championship 21-17 but had the Raiders been the team to move on, I don't know if Miami whould have gone on to win out and represent the AFC.

In 73 they beat Pittsburgh in the playoffs and lost to a great Miami Dolphins team that went on to win the Super Bowl in the AFC conference championship game. Close again but no cigar.

In 74 they went 12-2 losing only to the Bills 21-20 and Denver 20-17. They beat the Miami Dolphins team that had just completed an unbeaten season and two straight Super Bowl wins. They lost to Pittsburgh 24-13 in a very close game that some say, even today, was called in favor of Pittsburgh.

In 75 they went 11-3. They got thumped by KC 42-10, Lost to Cincy 14-10 and lost to Houston 27-26. They again lost to a great Pittsburgh team 16-10.

In 76 they finally managed to win the Super Bowl stomping the Vikes 32-14, going 13-1 in the regular season and destroying Pittsburgh 24-7 along the way.

This was truely a great team that had the miss fortune of being very good at a time when two of the all time best teams in the History of the NFL had it going, Pittsburgh's famed Steel Curtin and Miami's No name defense.

You look at Oakland at that time and they were as talented as anybody ever. Those teams bosted no less then 9 Hall of Famers in John Madden, Fred Biletnikoff, George Blanda, Willie Brown, Dave Casper, Ted Hendricks, Jim Otto, Art Shell and Gene Upshaw. Not to mention Ray Guy, Ken Stabler, Jack Tatum (who could all easily be in the HOF as well), Otis Sistrunk, Mark Van Eeghan, Pete Banaszak, Cliff Branch, John Matuszak, Marv Hubbard, Daryl Lamonica and Phil Villapiano.

That was a very, very talented team. I think that's probably my choice right there.

 

[MossBurner]

83 Skins

 

[THUMPER]

With all the SB week stuff, I started thinking about teams that were really good but didn't win it all.

1973 Vikings

1976 Steelers, 5 shut outs and gave up just 28 points the final 9 games, best defense ever IMO.

1978 Cowboys

1990 Bills

1994 Cowboys

2001 Rams

I would add:

1968 Cowboys

1984 Dolphins

1977 Colts

1986 Bears

1962 Giants

1964 Colts

1968 Colts - If Unitas was healthy they beat the Jets.

1968 Raiders

Going back a bit before my time...

1947 NY Yankees (AAFC)

1948 49ERs (AAFC) - set the record for rushing yards in a season, it still stands!

1950 Rams - Highest scoring team per game in NFL history, barely lost to the Browns in the championship game.

1953 Browns

1951 Browns

1948 Chicago Cardinals - believe it or not they were actually good once.

 

[alancdc]

I would add:

1968 Cowboys

1984 Dolphins

1977 Colts

1986 Bears

1962 Giants

1964 Colts

1968 Colts - If Unitas was healthy they beat the Jets.

1968 Raiders

How about the Boys team in 75 that lost to the Steelers? I was only 5 so I don't remember that game at all, but it seemed to me if not for a BS interference penalty on our DB that game might have been very different.

 

[alancdc]

How about those KC teams from the early 90's??

isnt that who the bills beat in the years they went to the Super Bowl?

Bills beat the Howie Long Raiders one year and the Fins one year I think, but could be wrong. Always won enough to get home field in January in Buffalo.

 

[theebs]

I thought I would throw this in

1986 and 1987 Cleveland browns.

I have always thought the browns would have given the giants and skins a very difficult game. they were just like an nfc team, but couldnt beat the broncos..

Great thread.

 

[theebs]

Bills beat the Howie Long Raiders one year and the Fins one year I think, but could be wrong. Always won enough to get home field in January in Buffalo.

The bills put one of the biggest whippings on a team in the playoffs I have ever seen. they embarrassed the raiders 51-0 in 90, ironically the giants did the same thing to the bears that year.

 

[windward]

Bills beat the Howie Long Raiders one year and the Fins one year I think, but could be wrong. Always won enough to get home field in January in Buffalo.

They also beat Denver in 1991

 

[rantanamo]

How about the NFC 90-95 with the exception of the Cardinals. Seriously to think back, the division was crazy. What did they win, 5 out of those 6 Superbowls?

 

[THUMPER]

How about the NFC 90-95 with the exception of the Cardinals. Seriously to think back, the division was crazy. What did they win, 5 out of those 6 Superbowls?

The NFC won EVERY SB from 1984-1996, that's 13 in a row! The Raiders won it in 1983 and the Broncos won it in 1997, in between it was the Giants-2, 49ERs-4, Commanders-2, Bears-1, Packers-1, and of course we won 3 of them.

 

[Sarge]

the 1998 Vikings were pretty good too, 15-1, and set the then NFL single-season record for points scored

Denny Green did a real good job screwing that one up.

 

[brucem78]

The Raiders of the early 70s were pretty dang good.

In 72 they went 10-3-1 losing to Pittsburgh 13-7 on the immaculate reception. The Raiders really should have won that game. Steelers would eventually go on to lose to the Miami Dolphins in the conference championship 21-17 but had the Raiders been the team to move on, I don't know if Miami whould have gone on to win out and represent the AFC.

In 73 they beat Pittsburgh in the playoffs and lost to a great Miami Dolphins team that went on to win the Super Bowl in the AFC conference championship game. Close again but no cigar.

In 74 they went 12-2 losing only to the Bills 21-20 and Denver 20-17. They beat the Miami Dolphins team that had just completed an unbeaten season and two straight Super Bowl wins. They lost to Pittsburgh 24-13 in a very close game that some say, even today, was called in favor of Pittsburgh.

In 75 they went 11-3. They got thumped by KC 42-10, Lost to Cincy 14-10 and lost to Houston 27-26. They again lost to a great Pittsburgh team 16-10.

In 76 they finally managed to win the Super Bowl stomping the Vikes 32-14, going 13-1 in the regular season and destroying Pittsburgh 24-7 along the way.

This was truely a great team that had the miss fortune of being very good at a time when two of the all time best teams in the History of the NFL had it going, Pittsburgh's famed Steel Curtin and Miami's No name defense.

You look at Oakland at that time and they were as talented as anybody ever. Those teams bosted no less then 9 Hall of Famers in John Madden, Fred Biletnikoff, George Blanda, Willie Brown, Dave Casper, Ted Hendricks, Jim Otto, Art Shell and Gene Upshaw. Not to mention Ray Guy, Ken Stabler, Jack Tatum (who could all easily be in the HOF as well), Otis Sistrunk, Mark Van Eeghan, Pete Banaszak, Cliff Branch, John Matuszak, Marv Hubbard, Daryl Lamonica and Phil Villapiano.

That was a very, very talented team. I think that's probably my choice right there.

I totally agree! Those Raiders teams got some really tough breaks in those playoff games in the '70s. I always wanted to see Dallas matched up with them in the Super Bowl.