Detroit Lions are the only team to have been in the league every year they have held a Super Bowl and never made an appearance. Even more disheartening for Lions fans - 1 playoff win in 55 years!
I don't like the impression that there was no "Super Bowl" prior to SB I...literally true, but there WERE NFL championship games. The Lions were NFL champions, as were the Cleveland Browns, there was life before the term Super Bowl was coined.
I know but he is making the point about how pre-Super Bowl championships are never acknowledged. The Lions and Browns dominated the pre-Super Bowl era NFL, yet they "don't have any championships." It's stupid.
I guess it depends where you live. I live in Chicago, and the Bears have plenty of pre-Super Bowl championships, so I hear plenty of discussion of the pre-Super Bowl era, including the championships for the Lions and Browns. And any time someone mentions that the Steelers have the most Super Bowl titles, someone else will chime in and point out that the Packers have the most championships overall. I get the point you're making, but I think most football fans appreciate the pre-Super Bowl era.
While true, the Super Bowl includes teams from the old AFL, which those champions did not have. The Dallas Texans/ Kansas City Chiefs, Oilers/Titans, Broncos, Raiders, Bills, Patriots, New York Titans/Jets, Falcons, Dolphins and Bengals were not part of the previous championships before the Super Bowl. So you can easily put the two in separate categories because the championships before the Super Bowl era were only part of the league we have today.
FWIW: 2013 was Seahawks-Broncos. The Panthers lost to the Patriots in 2003.