Top 10 Snake-Bitten Franchises!

so what is a snake bit franchise it's a combination of sit here and say Karma's a [ __ ] but some teams are just snake bit more than most pickets a team that gets close to the ultimate prize but can't close the deal that's a snake bit franchise okay so Joe's going to happen this letter should be fired I mean at least put up number one here because if you ask any Bills fan nobody has been bitten more times and harder by that snake over the years the Bills have been wounded in a lot of ways [Applause] [Music] not a miracle it was a crime it was a fraud perpetrated and the streets of Nashville whose numbers one who's number eight for every Bills fan their greatest source of pride and pinpoint of pain is four straight Super Bowl appearances four straight losses we had not one two three four bytes of been Apple has still been swallowed all people wanted in Buffalo just one just wants to say yes hi drama here on the Super Bowl Scott Norwood he can fire the shot heard round the world now any conversation about the bill snake bit status begins with two simple words wide right like right by right wide right there's no question about it in my mind that's the game we definitely should have won that started a bad streak for us against the Redskins Hall of Fame money back Thurman Thomas was MRA at the kickoff when he lost his helmet Kenneth Davis's hit it running back not Thurman Thomas how do you lose your helmet during the Superbowl l'm idiot all the Redskins have really dominated has been beaten up the bills they got a kill basically in the other three I've been 52 1732 13 the next year gets the Cowboys [Music] it was like a snowball effect we couldn't stop the snowball from getting bigger by the time the fourth one came around you were like oh gosh not again [Music] it's like a needle in the bloom here we go again rendus nightmare for the bill one of the Buffalo Bills going to get out from the snake Vivint dark cloud that just sort of hangs around they can get so close and then all of a sudden somebody snatches something away from the San Diego Chargers have been snakebit by extreme temperatures whether it was a hot quarterback in Super Bowl 29 or the cool Cincinnati temperatures in the 1981 AFC Championship you can always look back at Cincinnati and go the Chargers day didn't crack our list but another marty team with claim to playoff pain checks in at number nine the first four Super Bowls Kant said he was into whoever thought that you wouldn't be back into Super Bowls two years after winning Super Bowl for the Chiefs were again knocking on the door they lose the longest game ever played at home there's no reason we should have lost this football game still hurts to tell you the truth is the god of football somewhere decided that they're just gonna let Miami win that game we just never seem to get that swagger back [Music] following the laws the Chiefs trudged through an over two decade of irrelevance perhaps that was easier for fans than the pain experienced in the 90s the 93 AFC Championship game live which would put us in the Super Bowl we were playing in Buffalo I remember a play right before half-time where Montana throws a past it was a pass to the fullback in the end zone that he dropped by halftime Joe Montana has been hit and had a concussion and it never comes back I'm not so sure Anders doesn't catch that ball but the Chiefs don't win that game 1995 you have home-field advantage you have a very beatable indoor domed Colts team you've got an outside it's freezing and you lose because of our kicker this three field goals chip shot broke my heart because we were a much better football team than they were again it's hard for me to talk about their kind of painful years I believe that Marty Schottenheimer had some kind of mental block he won't even allow simple as that you either get better or you get worse you have to head a little look all the way and you know one for bad luck me who would have any at all a new regime turned the Chiefs into an offensive powerhouse in 2003 they started nine no but suffered yet another blow off this appointment to the coals and maybe that horseshoe that hangs on their helmet we should put it on ours for some lakh maybe we aren't as good as we thought we were it is gut wrenching for Chiefs nation every year to see somebody else hand the Lamar Hunt trophy to another coach to another team for gosh sake it's it's about our turn I don't know if I particularly believe in karma but this seems like there's a kind of a bad karma around this organization when I was a kid I was into the Jets and then I got into girls as I got older and then I got back into the Jets because I realized there's times when a girl won't q but the Jets will always do you cannot find a more star cross franchise all these years without even getting a taste of the Super Bowl I don't have the Jets and I'm great I love to see your top seven I know the Jets once the one and one it is 40 years ago [Music] they had learned a great means of all time and I think that's still paying for Joe Namath had a conversation with the devil right before that Super Bowl and he said devil if you give me this championship you don't have to give the Jets anything else for the rest of my life Marino takes the snap from center they caught the Jets off-guard the rest of the world is losing to the Jets Charlie Brown dang was over if we hadn't had that truly believed it thank goodness for Mark Gastineau the 12th man for the Cleveland Browns late in the fourth quarter [Applause] that to me was the worst loss in history to franchise on till 2004 in Pittsburgh [Applause] it usually happens wrong when it comes to one play for this team they've had a plethora of hideous cultures you know from Lou Holtz you know to Bruce cause Lee I can't believe we blew that play no success without Gro what a mess Pete Carroll was here for one year Richie Cote I rich code time he looked like he should be like a plumber's assistant or something and he's the head coach of the Jets you would have thought if there was one coach who could end the years of misery in the torment it would have been built Parcells even the great Bill Parcells couldn't escape the Jets karma on the final weekend of the 1997 season here the Jets are they have a chance to get in the playoffs those Power Cells arguably one of his greatest coaching jobs ever and then in a final game against the Lions he just makes some of the most asinine decisions you could ever imagine [Applause] it was like parcels had just morphed into rich Co tight for that one day ourselves lasted three years on jobs and his early departure caused another snake bite for our number 18 Bella cheque leaving them at the altar he's got to be the ultimate punch to the stomach for Jets fans he's a head coach 32 minutes and goes on to become the greatest coach in modern football is another reason why the Jets have to be higher than eight on the old-time scible snake-bitten fragile they have to be even in the 2008 season when I look with the head Rhett farm and look like they're on the way to the playoffs the Jets are starting to look like a team that could be AFC contenders they could be Super Bowl contenders all the New York papers everybody's like the Jets are going to the Super Bowl next thing you know team falls apart then the last game of the year champ anything going back in the Meadowlands and beaten brett farr some antibiotics what I've been them I am prepared to live out my remaining days in this planet without seeing the Jets win the Super Bowl I've come to terms C key it's a super ball the Rams won a Super Bowl in st. Louis but in Los Angeles they were snake bit by some of the greatest teams ever the fearsome foursome was derailed by the 67 Packers the seventies teams ran into the Vikings and Cowboys and for conference championship losses and in the 80s the Rams lost NFC championship games to the 85 Bears and the 89 49ers the long time they did reach the Super Bowl the Steel Curtain dropped on another sad ending while the Rams had their day in the Super Bowl son our number 17 was cursed by a dark endless storm this might be the most snake-bitten franchise in professional sports tell me six more franchises that are more snakebit than Detroit the Lions wounds are still fresh even after half a century in 1957 Detroit ruled the NFL as champions but when the team traded their charismatic quarterback Bobby Lane he put a curse on the franchise there's so many freakin curses around here why not throw Bobby into it what is it Wayne said the Lions would never win for the next 50 years there's a curse of Bobby Wayne they traded him they have not been the same since gonna [ __ ] shine since then you want to believe there is something larger at play than just 50 years of mistakes and competence and bizarre injuries the only thing that Lions fans can hope for now is we've got us go and the only way is up I mean I think this should be the number one team when you look at their history one playoff win in the last 50 plus years that they have just been dreadful not even Barry Sanders the only superstar capable of cracking the curse to pull Detroit out of the playoffs Nick been maybe the Waterloo of Barry Sanders the lion was in Green Bay in the 1994 playoffs for grant about 12 times from minus 1 yards the next season Pro Bowl tackled Lomas brown tried to cancel the curse by guaranteeing a victory over pretty much in the second quarter and they're down 51 to 7 - the Eagles can just absolutely get embarrassed late completed Scott Mitchell there's an adverb or adjective now called Mitch Ling well he Mitchell for interceptions could hit the ground with the ball [Applause] [Music] Munson made the comedy complete by throwing still another interception the fourth in five consecutive pass plays it's easy to believe in this curse because the position that has been most cursed on the Lions since marketing lap is the quarterback position the quarterback battles that have taken place Eric Cramer Andre ware Rodney Peete Arnie Peters two guys are gonna ride gonna put a saddle on him until the fall Ronnie always in the season will be started I'm hoping this guy will take this this whole season Joey Harrington do I need to revisit that he's a train wreck from the beginning early in the 2008 season the 50 year curse of Bobby Lane was set to expire oh yeah I think that was the perfect bookend for the curse that fiftieth year the curse of Bobby link they don't win instead they put up the worst season in a hitch for the NFL franchise of all time the New Orleans Saints might be another path with the devil for what the city is but I'll tell you that the New Orleans Saints for me or my snake bit of franchises any in the history the NFL in 1967 the Saints came roaring in and like lion scoring on their inaugural kickoff but they soon became a sacrificial lamb without a winning season in their first 20 years they reached the abyss of a horrible football the Saints were considered for a long time to be a lost cause and New Orleans loves lost causes as an expansion team the Saints began with a [Music] career and then we just playing off the string and a really cool town to play it out in the French Quarter was in fact the other locker room for the New Orleans Saints they would always say they won the fifth quarter and the fifth quarters in the French Quarter they win that game stuck in the eye of the snake bit storm was Archie Manning the Saints lone superstar who got the help manning smartly supporting cast included an astronaut as gm7 different head coaches and a mascot named gumball it was very appropriate that it would be a st. Bernard cuz he yes I'm whiskey hanging off the front that people would probably take a hit up during the course of the game this is crazy people that play this game and our dressing room always looks like a train station I mean the bags going and coming in the hollow with a receiver you've never even thrown a pass to goofy stuff no.1 14 start gave birth to a national institution the bag headed paints [Music] to end the misery championship coaches were brought in but only after their competitive fires had burned out dick cadet arrives here the best way I can describe him he was still sitting back in a limousine waving at people after that Super Bowl eleven years before Mike Ditka was a disappointment did not do a good job drafting and coaching gave up an entire year of draft picks for Ricky Williams a marriage that was snake big from the start really what made the Saints a laughingstock that trace back to franchise I think about five years in America's voodoo capital the st. snake-bitten curse was broken in 2009 [Applause] the superbug may have exorcised the demons but it doesn't erase 3 plus decades of disappointments a history depressing enough to earn them the 6th spot on our list we're going out there to this first half we're going to explode like a bomb in my definition of snake bite which it says bad luck I mean I put the Houston Oilers right there there was somebody out there always it was a little bit bigger and a little bit better a little bit better than they were a great example of our oil is being snake bit was in 1979 for the second year in a row that may have been the second best team in the NFL but it was their misfortune to go against the greatest dynasty still Kurt [Applause] it's applied it's goes down as you know probably the biggest play in Houston or history [Applause] it was a play that could have got us with the correct call it could have got us to the Super Bowl it's a pretty tough pill to swallow very big that's why at the end so to start out to be the boilers are that close I mean literally that close didn't erupt in the dynasty the Pittsburgh Steelers really think deep down inside we felt like we were wrong Sabich now we can't get just thinking break we have the worst luck in the National Football League the Houston Oilers were contenders again in the late 80s but seven straight playoff appearances yielded nary a trip to the conference championship and they were snakebit by three straight late-game collapses in all three games their defense cost them those victories always been [Applause] that team gave up up 35 to 3 lead at halftime 1993 to build a lead in the Astrodome before the biggest esterdome crowd in history so what happens the victim of joe Montana's last miracle when he threw a pass for Willie Davis that was a dagger through the collective hearts of Houston and I say to this day that pass and that gang contribute to the Oilers leaving town and moving to Tennessee the Oilers left town in 1996 and they took their bad karma with them teams that move seem to have some bad juju you look at the Tennessee Titans whenever this it's the one in the Super Bowl it's a game of inches you talk about it yeah it's a game of business it's almost as if it was carrying over from Texas over to Tennessee maybe this franchise has never ever meant to win anything of significance I know they're fifth on your list to me that would be higher the Eagles are the best example of the situation where it's better to never even contend than to contend all the time get close and have your heart broke to this day 500 straight times and Tampa Bay had never won in under 40 degrees and they were coming to the vet where there wasn't a prayer they could win and it was called and then what happened the Eagles fell apart you get a Super Bowl in Tampa before we get wonderful Philadelphia really this is what the gods have decided I still think that they're better than the Bucs I think they were better than the Panthers and I think they were better than the Arizona courts these are we are one and four and NFC championships so like a lemur version of the Buffalo Bills that's your legacy Congrats [Music] the Eagles have tormented fans of all generations the gangrene Eagles had a five-year snake pit run that started with the fog board boy was that a fun game it was it was like staring at you know the side of a ship screaming at the top of our lungs stop the game I believe the Bears would have lost had the fog not rolled in the Eagles that year would have won the Superbowl if they get out of Chicago three years later their Super Bowl hopes again went up in smoke this time in Week one Randall Cunningham who's a potential league MVP walks through the season with a historically great defense when Bryce pop it is me the world that have felt a few football crumble that year I hate price pop to this day that season was the season that was supposed to deliver a Super Bowl to fill it up I hope Bryce pop is like working at a Walmart somewhere and then of course Jerome dies at spring and it basically sunk the 92 season I don't want to say that they couldn't continue on after him but there was a void the deagles never came close to filling because of your own brown some of us wondered if the vet had been built over an old Indian burial ground because see nothing right went on there number 4 snake big team since winning the championship in 1960 they have even lost by winning as witnessed in 1968 there was actually a reward for being bad and that was the first pick in the draft who that here was OJ Simpson [Music] the Eagles the Philadelphia snakebite continues frustration the championship hasn't come our way this is the city and the town and that team is new you have a top 10 list and not include the Atlanta Falcons you look at the Falcons history suspense so frustrating you had that moment where they had the Dallas Cowboys beat was a done deal they're going to the next level did not know we had this moment of Hope with Deion Sanders coming up 1998 you've got this Dirty Bird thing going you got this magic you got Dan Reeves coming back from the heart attack you get to the Super Bowl 34 to 19 this is the sign of a totally snake-bitten franchise our number three franchise had its Super Bowl dreams shattered by one of their own former coaches why so low they can't be that bad have they been to the Super Bowl twice their father Paul Brown to hall-of-famer Paul Brown was the father of modern coaching in Cincinnati he mentored Bill Walsh but in choosing a successor Brown set the Bengals on their snick bit path my former team Cincinnati Bengals probably do deserve to be on that list they passed on a great coach in bill walk Paul thought the loss was crazy he didn't trust him Holy Smoke meant he didn't like some of the things that we were trying to do the coach that went on and built the system that beat them the two Super Bowls right there and their midst and they chose not to hand him the chalk Brown hired bill tiger Johnson instead who resigned in the middle of his third season what if bill walsh days and bob Trumpy will probably tell you this his hands would be decorated with Super Bowl rings eighty-one hurts the most it couldn't get out of their own way with fumbles with the inability to score the goal line play the biggest game of your life and you don't play as well as you can play of Honshu forever later but the bangles were snakebit even before kickoff there's a major story breaking out of a bengal camp and it isn't good Stanley Wilson who was twice before been suspended because of involvement with drugs the Bengal running backs suspended on the eve of Super Bowl I went back into the room and I said Minh standard Wilson won't be playing tomorrow I can remember guys taking their playbook and slamming him on the ground didn't mean enough to him to make the right choice here was your fullback critical member of the team who was devastating to this franchise and that they have a Tim Plummer I get hurt so early in the game the heart and soul of that defense watch the leg with only seconds to play bill walls and Joe Montana came back to bite the bangles one more time [Music] [Applause] I'm still pissed off it's parallel the death of Paul Brown and the demise of the franchise in the 90s of simultaneous I called it the Lost Decade searching Philippine go back to recapture the suitable magic the bangles suffered a string of first-round washouts the team was labeled the bungles you can't miss at that position you can't miss at the primary position in football Achille Smith he couldn't couldn't think football NFL 11 other players went on to implode and load their franchise right along with them this ain't the same old banger this is a new banger even when Cincinnati drafted a franchise quarterback he was bitten and only the second snap of his first playoff when Palma went down you could positively feel an entire town just kind of sag the Bengals fans are probably the most long-suffering fans in the NFL they've had to endure more you have to say that the Cincinnati Bengals are snake-bitten franchise and not include the Arizona Cardinals I cleaned that wet 62 years without a home playoff game [Music] after decades of failure the Cardinals finally made it to the Super Bowl only to be stung by the Steelers in the final seconds the Seahawks were also mired in mediocrity before they got their first championship shot also against Pittsburgh but Seattle couldn't catch a break from the black and white series I felt like that game more than the other the officials determine the outcome in the game oh my goodness it's coming back [Applause] picking our number tooling franchise was a much easier call choose the perfect spot they've been to those super balls they haven't been able to close the deal how could there be shame and losing the Super Bowl it's not a snake pit franchise at all Bane Owen for the Super Bowl that's better steak [ __ ] you get starting in the late 60s the Vikings dominated the NFC winning their division 9 out of 10 years it was a legendary squad loaded with Hall of Famers Fran Tarkenton the Purple People eaters you got blood burn on the sidelines you can't win a Super Bowl what's like the team is Bud Grant coached from September to December just didn't bother to show up how can you not want to win every game to the post this Tiger Woods play golf harder on the 4th inning as the first day of a tournament [Music] they were the one against Kansas City because they weren't ready for what they saw a sulky was running around there like it was a Chinese fire drill thanks James laughing at him on the sidelines it's like stealin it's like lost to the great dolphin team who's coming off the perfect season going for two in a row at Larry's ANCA running over like ten guys something went crazy for that Vikings team when the time came to play in the game it really matter don't like you know here it goes again they caught a raid a team that was just massive and it's offensive line be trippin Purple People eaters and put them on a diet you haven't using everything but losing sure is nothing you lose something like that as a real nothing feeling still haunts me everyday when you start talking about snake bit franchises particularly ones that have had the talent to do well Minnesota is clearly a number one in 1987 a trip to the Super Bowl was just across the goal-line [Applause] in a 1975 playoff the Vikings were cursed by a Cowboys prayer the Hail Mary game that team was snakebit that was the team they felt the game the best shot to win a Super Ball there was no way we can lose that game no way in the world Alec Cowboys made America but sometime the gods just say you know I want this from the land whether this one also got a call from an official - Pierson pushes me right everybody knows the Drew Pearson told me that I said but now the night hurts it was just that sudden that shocking like the world stopped in 1998 Minnesota fielded one of the greatest offenses in football history when you think about the 15 and 1 year to hear when they set the record for most points scored and Randy Moss was just an unstoppable player and Randall Cunningham is resurrected and seems like this is the unstoppable team Gary Anderson has missed a field goal for the first time in two years unbelievable absolutely one of the most devastating sports moments in the history of Minnesota walking off that field I didn't know someone to play football anymore I felt like that I would never won and something finally if you go back 60 years the Browns were number one at football back then the Browns were the model franchise everybody wanted to be like the Browns it started turning wrong really when they fired Paul Brown the Browns of the late 70s were mediocre the Browns of the 80s were snake bit play was read write 88 s of things play and Cleveland more the game was won the only thing Sam Rutigliano has got to do is kick the field goal no I'm sitting here looking at the game and I'm saying bad karma start away from that moment right on down the line bad things stay with the Browns to this day we just need to flush it all out it makes you think about games like the drive and the fumble things where it could have been but it wasn't yards in your own stadium and their fans going crazy they have success right there this close and they couldn't seal the deal right now it's time to take a step forward [Music] [Applause] a play like that can really make it a franchise in his city feel as if the stars are not aligned properly for them to be that close you know I still to this day get emotional I should mature I should grow up I should get over it I haven't either after all of those then you had the move the Browns are deep coming to Baltimore dude ever thunk that the Cleveland Browns would leave Cleveland the Cleveland Browns I mean they're old-school NFL they don't move and then to see Art Modell and that team when a Super Bowl five years later was very very hard for a lot of Browns fans to take all they had to do was get dispensed of Cleveland out of their nostrils and boom they're champions says a lot about the football curse the Dead City lives on there is Cleveland Brown town not Dole Browns the new brown one franchise leaves and goes somewhere else a new one comes in and they still have strangeness they're not doing so well in the second version are they bud looks an awful lot like the old Browns they're leading Pittsburgh late in the second half the last 19 minutes of that game or torture for Browns fans I had every confidence not that the stewards will win it but that the bronze would blow it they always blow it and maybe they shouldn't have built the new stadium where the old stadium stood we just can't get a break and of course then the media eyes comes out and says hey do you guys know it's been 64 since you won a championship yeah thanks for reminding us one day it's all gonna come together and we're gonna have our day in the big show we can't win for losing every team on our list figures there a day will eventually come but until it does these teams will remain snake bit at ease to their fans hopes and dreams

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Length: 39min 38sec (2378 seconds)

Published: Thu May 14 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/SnowmanMat]

Nice, we can’t even win this list

[u/Raktoner]

10: Buffalo Bills

9: Kansas City Chiefs

8: New York Jets

Special mention not on top 10: Los Angeles Rams

7: Detroit Lions

6: New Orleans Saints

5: Houston Oilers/Tennessee Titans

4: Philadelphia Eagles

3: Cincinnati Bengals

"Best of the Rest:" Seattle Seahawks, Arizona Cardinals

2: Minnesota Vikings

1: Cleveland Browns

This list was made in 2012.

[u/TeddysRevenge]

7...

We’re number 7?!

Hahahahahahaha

[u/guytonre]

How are the falcons not on here?

[u/Footballthoughts]

Cardinals somehow got robbed in a video about trash teams

[u/PewterPplEater]

If not for '02, we should win in a landslide

[u/unitedairlineeeeees]

Eight? That’s it??

[u/eagles1990]

Time to update the list!!

We’re not number 4 anymore lmao

[u/Yuokes]

2012....pretty outdated.