The Power of Five (4)—Super Bowl Losers

Click here for the introduction to the Round and Square series "The Power of Five"
One year ago on Round and Square (24 June 2012)—Fieldnotes From History: Provincial Elections (f)
Two years ago on Round and Square (24 June 2011)—Beginnings: Argonauts of the Western Pacific

[a] Game Over RF

Below, I list the "Five Super Bowl Losers." 

As you will see, this series represents a mix of popular culture and commerce, on the one hand, and fairly obscure corners of specialized knowledge, on the other. It is about anything and everyone, because these "fives" are meant to encompass totality.

Together, they will.

Today we look at teams that have failed in their pursuit of the Lombardi Trophy. And, as some of you Vikings fans know—especially those of you who grew up with me in Minnesota in the 1970s—several of these teams have suffered cruelly at the hands of the trickster gods of NFL life. 

[b] Second Place RF

If you're from Buffalo, you know this misery even more pointedly, because at least you almost won it all (once). For you, Lake Erie dwellers, "wide right" will always bring pangs of what might have been.

Bengals and Chargers fans have suffered, too. They just weren't good enough for long enough to endure defeat-after-defeat-after-defeat...after defeat. 

Oh, and the Philadelphia Eagles. They deserve their fate. You think I'm kidding? The recently crowned "worst fans in the world" even booed Santa Claus. That kind of thing comes back to bite you. It will be a long time before there is a football championship in the City of Brotherly Love (and Santa-hate). Kris Kringle knows karma.

You want irony? They were playing the Minnesota Vikings that day in 1968 (and they lost, 21-14). 

So...these are the Five Super Bowl Losers.

Together, they form the category "Super Bowl Loser."

If this doesn't make sense...go back and read the introduction and the links!

[c] Winners and Losers RF

The Five 
Super Bowl Losers
Minnesota Vikings
Buffalo Bills
San Diego Chargers
Cincinnati Bengals
Philadelphia Eagles

Discuss. 

And I have one more comment—a prediction, really. We just wrapped up Super Bowl XLVII in February. It is only three more years until Super Bowl L. 

I predict that one of these five teams will take away the title that year, and that they might, possibly play each other. Now that would really mess with "W" and "L."

Feel free to comment and disagree (politely, gracefully...as though you were raised in North Dakota, on the lapping banks of the Red River).

Tomorrow—Pharmacies

[d] Winners (and losers) RF