san diego has the longest championship drought in sports.
who has the longest championship drought in sports?
san diego
as for the chargers, the implications of their defeat were worse in hindsight. this remains the only super bowl the chargers have ever played in including the pre afl-nfl merger, the 3rd championship game that the chargers lost. the afl championship in 1963 remains to this day as the only major sports championship the city of san diego has won (and also the longest championship drought for any city that has at least two major sports franchises), so even though they were heavy underdogs, the loss still had a great significance. the chargers would also not win another playoff game since then until the 2007 season, when they reached the afc championship, but lost to the then 18-0 new england patriots, 21–12. super bowl xxix would be their only appearance while playing in san diego, before they moved to los angeles following the 2016 season.
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bullet::::5. the chicago cubs hold the record for the longest world series championship drought of all time, with no titles between 1908 and 2016 (108 years). they also hold the longest ever pennant drought of all time, which stretched from 1945 to 2016. their pennant drought ended with a 4–2 series victory over the los angeles dodgers in the 2016 nlcs. with the cubs' subsequent victory in the 2016 world series, the longest active world series championship drought belongs coincidentally to their opponents in that series, the cleveland indians, who have not won a world series since 1948. the indians' drought is the second longest active championship drought among all four major professional sports leagues in north america (mlb, nba, nfl, and nhl); only the nfl's arizona cardinals, who last won a league championship in 1947, when the team still operated as the chicago cardinals, have a longer active championship drought. the team with the longest active pennant drought among al teams that have played in a world series at least once is the baltimore orioles, who have not reached a world series since winning their last title in 1983. the team with the longest active pennant drought among nl teams that have played in a world series at least once is the pittsburgh pirates, who have not reached a world series since winning their last title in 1979. this also means that the pirates hold the second longest active world series title drought among all teams that have at least one series and longest championship drought among nl teams that have won a series.
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