In Comparison To Other Notable Sports Curses
Further information: Drought (sport) and Sports-related cursesThe last major league sports championship for San Diego was the AFL Championship in 1963, when the San Diego Chargers emerged as AFL champions before the AFL merged with the NFL to form the current National Football League. In comparison, in Cleveland, another cursed city, the Browns last won an NFL Championship in 1964. Since then, no other team from that city has won a major professional sports championship. The city of Buffalo is also similarly affected by an alleged curse, having last won an AFL Championship in 1965 (incidentally, the Bills defeated the Chargers for both of their AFL titles). In both San Diego's and Buffalo's cases, there is considerable debate as to how Buffalo or San Diego would have fared had the Super Bowl existed by 1963.
Other notable sports curses affect only specific teams, such as the Chicago White Sox's Curse of the Black Sox and the Chicago Cubs' Curse of the Billy Goat. San Diego's sports curse, by contrast, affects all professional teams in the city and county of San Diego, much like Curse of Billy Penn and Curse of the Inauguration in Philadelphia. Neither the San Diego Padres nor the San Diego Chargers have ever won a championship in their current league, nor has any other major sports team that has been based in the city, including the San Diego Clippers and San Diego Rockets of the NBA and the San Diego Conquistadors of the American Basketball Association (ABA) prior to the 1976 ABA-NBA merger.
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