Longest Active Division Title Drought
Listed according to seasons waited. All season droughts through the 2011 season are shown on the Pro football reference.com website.
Teams still in the playoff hunt are listed in the NFL.com web site.
Updated through week 13 of the 2012 season.
| 0^0 |
| Division | Franchise | Last Title 0Year0 |
Seasons | 0 0Former0 0 division title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AFC East | Buffalo Bills^ | 1995 | 17 | |
| AFC East | New York Jets | 2002 | 10 | |
| AFC East | Miami Dolphins | 2008 | 4 | |
| AFC North | Cleveland Browns^ | 1989 | 020* | AFC Central |
| AFC South | Jacksonville Jaguars^ | 1999 | 13 | AFC Central |
| AFC South | Tennessee Titans | 2008 | 4 | |
| AFC West | Oakland Raiders^ | 2002 | 10 | |
| AFC West | San Diego Chargers | 2009 | 3 | |
| AFC West | Kansas City Chiefs | 2010 | 2 | |
| NFC East | Philadelphia Eagles | 2010 | 2 | |
| NFC North | Detroit Lions | 1993 | 19 | NFC Central |
| NFC South | Tampa Bay Buccaneers | 2007 | 5 | |
| NFC South | Carolina Panthers | 2008 | 4 | |
| NFC South | New Orleans Saints | 2011 | 1 | |
| NFC West | St. Louis Rams | 2003 | 9 | |
| NFC West | Arizona Cardinals | 2009 | 3 | |
| 2012 Division Champions | ||||
| AFC East | New England Patriots | 2012 | — | |
| AFC West | Denver Broncos | 2012 | — | |
| NFC South | Atlanta Falcons | 2012 | — | |
| Division | Franchise | Last Title 0Year0 |
Seasons | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AFC North | Cincinnati Bengals | 2009 | 3 | |||||||
| AFC North | Pittsburgh Steelers | 2010 | 1 | |||||||
| AFC South | Indianapolis Colts | 2010 | 1 | |||||||
| NFC East | Washington Redskins^ | 1999 | 12 | |||||||
| NFC East | Dallas Cowboys | 2009 | 2 | |||||||
| NFC North | Minnesota Vikings | 2009 | 2 | |||||||
| NFC North | Chicago Bears | 2010 | 1 | |||||||
| NFC West | Seattle Seahawks | 2010 | 1 | |||||||
| Defending Division Champions still in the hunt | ||||||||||
| AFC North | Baltimore Ravens | 2011 | — | |||||||
| AFC South | Houston Texans | 2011 | — | |||||||
| NFC East | New York Giants | 2011 | — | |||||||
| NFC North | Green Bay Packers | 2011 | — | |||||||
| NFC West | San Francisco 49ers | 2011 | — | |||||||
*does not include three seasons (1996–1998) during which the franchise suspended operations.
Read more about this topic: List Of NFL Franchise Post-season Droughts
Famous quotes containing the words longest, active, division, title and/or drought:
“The ensuing year will be the longest of my life, and the last of such hateful labours. The next we will sow our cabbages together.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“Why indeed must “God” be a noun? Why not a verb—the most active and dynamic of all.”
—Mary Daly (b. 1928)
“In this world, which is so plainly the antechamber of another, there are no happy men. The true division of humanity is between those who live in light and those who live in darkness. Our aim must be to diminish the number of the latter and increase the number of the former. That is why we demand education and knowledge.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)
“In Goya’s greatest scenes we seem to see
the people of the world
exactly at the moment when
they first attained the title of
‘suffering humanity’”
—Lawrence Ferlinghetti (b. 1919)
“A worm is as good a traveler as a grasshopper or a cricket, and a much wiser settler. With all their activity these do not hop away from drought nor forward to summer. We do not avoid evil by fleeing before it, but by rising above or diving below its plane; as the worm escapes drought and frost by boring a few inches deeper.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)