After 108 years, the Chicago Cubs are finally World Series champions again, which means the most talked-about curse in sports has mercifully come to an end. Still, there are dozens of other clubs across the four major leagues — including the Cleveland Indians team Chicago just beat — waiting anxiously for their latest (or first) chance to raise a trophy and have a parade. But with the Cubs’ well-documented misery now a thing of the past, which remaining drought will take its place as the most significant in sports?

There are several factors that contribute to the significance of a championship dry spell, of course. Certainly length plays a major role, but it’s also not the be all and end all. The market in which the drought occurs definitely matters, too. (Would Chicago’s or Boston’s infamous recent bouts with futility have been such big news if they occurred in Memphis or Portland?) The same goes for the expectations being placed upon the team in the first place and the money the franchise has (or is willing) to spend on payroll.

At the end of the day, classifying degrees of ongoing grief isn’t a perfect science, but we’re going to try. So with that in mind, here’s a subjective look at the 56 most significant active championship droughts the four major North American team sport leagues.

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Are the Cubs cursed again? That’s the big question entering 2017. This is one drought to watch over the next 108 years.

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The Reds, whose last title came in 1990, had their share of success in the past, but outside of that championship, the club has done next to nothing since the days of the Big Red Machine.

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If history is any guide, the A’s should start a run of three straight World Series appearances any minute now.

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It’s only been 25 years since the Twins’ last World Series win, which really isn’t that bad. But the fact that none of the state’s four major sports teams have reached a championship series in that span makes it feel like forever.

Fans in Winnipeg no doubt feel more of a sting from the 17 fruitless NHL seasons of the previous Jets franchise (now the Coyotes) than the current drought, which began in Atlanta in 1999 before the league returned to Manitoba in 2011.

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The Tigers have won the World Series every time they’ve won 100 regular season games since the league expanded to 20 teams in 1962. Unfortunately, that hasn’t happened since 1984.

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Denver’s stunning first-round upset of Seattle in 1994 made for a wonderful moment, but after 40 years in the NBA without a single Finals appearance, Nuggets fans are understandably antsy.

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When the Chargers, the 1963 AFL champs, played in their lone Super Bowl in 1994, they did so as an 18.5-point underdog, the largest in the game’s history. And if you think they used the slight as motivation, you’re wrong: They lost by 23.

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If there’s a bright side to moving to Las Vegas, it’s that none of those fans will care that the Raiders’ last Super Bowl win came at the end of the 1983 season.

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What will come first, a Padres World Series or a Padres no-hitter?

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How might the last 30 years of Blazers history look different if they’d drafted Michael Jordan and Kevin Durant instead of Sam Bowie and Greg Oden?

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There’s not a more unlucky team in basketball than the Jazz, whose best chances at a championship happened to come when the ’90s Rockets and Bulls were at their best.

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This is your fault, Jeffrey Maier.

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Washington’s last championship came as the Bullets in the first of back-to-back Finals meetings with the SuperSonics in the late ’70s. And Seattle may very well have a team again by the time the Wizards play for another title.

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The Blueshirts suffer from the same case of unnecessarily elevated expectations as the Cowboys and 49ers of the NFL, except their last title, in ’94, was the storied franchise’s only Cup win since 1940.

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Da Bears had one of the best teams in NFL history in 1985, but save for 2006’s NFC championship run, there hasn’t been much to cheer about at Soldier Field since.

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After winning just nine games in 1972-73, the Sixers rebuilt and played in four of the next 10 NBA Finals, including the franchise’s last win in 1983. So, uh, maybe there’s reason for Philly fans to be optimistic about the next decade?

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The Nets haven’t won a title since the ABA’s final season, and while they had their chances in the early 2000s, there’s not much optimism that another Finals run is imminent.

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A lot like the next team on this list, except they’ve been waiting even longer for a return to the top.

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Anyone 35 and older would likely remember the Oilers as a Wayne Gretzky-led dynasty, but those under 25 may not know Edmonton was ever good. So this one is all relative.

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Generally speaking, the Mets have been good for about one World Series appearance every 15 or so years. So I’m expecting big things for them in 2030.

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The Caps entered the league in 1974 and have made the playoffs virtually every year since 1983, with little to nothing to show for it.

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Other teams have waited longer for another (or a first) World Series championship, but Pittsburgh hasn’t even won a division title since 1992, Barry Bonds’ last season in black and gold.

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Buffalo entered the NHL at the same time as Vancouver but has one less Stanley Cup appearance and has never won more than two games in a championship series.

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After this long without a Cup, and with several instances of bad playoff luck along the way — including two Game 7 losses in the final — even local writers in Vancouver are starting to wonder if the Canucks might be cursed.

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The Niners fall into the same category as the Cowboys. They set the bar so high in the ’80s and early ’90s that going this long without a Super Bowl feels like a lifetime.

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The Pacers, which haven’t won championship since their ABA days, have reached the conference finals eight times in the past 23 seasons. But sadly, the Curse of Tom Owens is still going strong.

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The Chiefs lost the first Super Bowl, won the fourth one, and have barely even sniffed a conference title since. Among teams that have already won a Super Bowl, only the Jets have been waiting longer for their next championship.

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Outside of one somewhat random AL pennant in 1982, the Brewers — who moved to the NL in 1998 — have done virtually nothing of note in the postseason. In fact, even if they’d won that ring in ’82, they’d still be more than due for another.

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At this point, just getting out of the Wild Card round would be grounds for celebration.

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On one hand, the Rangers didn’t win the franchise’s first playoff series until 2010, but on the other hand, they won the AL pennant both that season and in 2011. In the end, though, 55 years without a title outweighs Texas’ recent success.

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The Falcons and Braves each played their first season in Atlanta in 1966. One of them has won a championship since then, and it’s not the football team.

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You can only hang your hat on two Super Bowls and an unbeaten season in the early ’70s for so long. Dan Marino never won it all during his 17-year stint in Miami, and the team’s only playoff win since Marino’s final season came in 2000.

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With any luck, Thon Maker will be the next Lew Alcindor.

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It’s hard to feel too sorry for an Original Six team with 24 championships to its name, but after nearly a quarter century without a Cup celebration in Montreal, the gap between the Habs and have-nots has all but closed.

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The Mariners are the only team in baseball to spend its entire existence in the same city without ever reaching the Fall Classic. But they did win 116 regular-season games 15 years ago, so at least there’s that.

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The Knicks are one of those iconic teams that you’d swear must have won more recently than they actually have.

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Formed in 1962 as the Colt .45s, Houston didn’t even win its first playoff series until 2004. And when they finally reached their only World Series, they got swept by the White Sox, who would still be battling a curse of their own if not for that win.

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Formed in 1962 as the Colt .45s, Houston didn’t even win its first playoff series until 2004. And when they finally reached their only World Series, they got swept by the White Sox, who would still be battling a curse of their own if not for that win.

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This franchise, which moved to Northern California in 1985, hasn’t won a title since it was the Rochester Royals in 1951. Their last legitimate run at one came in 2002, when Robert Horry ruined everything.

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Amazingly, only five major league teams are currently facing a longer league championship drought than LA, which hasn’t won a World Series since Clayton Kershaw was 7 months old.

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The Phillies broke the Curse of Billy Penn eight years ago, but that hasn’t done much to change the fortunes of the Flyers, who have lost six Stanley Cup finals since winning back-to-back championships in 1974 and 1975.

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The Vikings have lost the NFC title game in overtime twice in the last 20 years — in addition to getting their pants pulled down by the Giants in a third. Things are looking up lately, but it’s tough to feel too optimistic given the team’s history.

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Somehow, the Browns are worse now than they were during the three years when they didn’t have a team at all.

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No one in football has waited longer for a title than the Cardinals, who have taken fans in Chicago, St. Louis and Phoenix along for the ride since winning their last NFL championship in 1947.

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There are 12 NBA teams without a championship to their name, and none have been playing longer without winning a ring than the Suns, whose only two Finals appearances came in 1976 and 1993.

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For most teams, 20 years without a title wouldn’t be alarming. But when you call yourself America’s Team and have a blank check to spend every offseason, two decades without advancing past the divisional round is cause for absolute panic.

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After reaching the conference semis as the Buffalo Braves in 1976, the Clippers franchise went 30 years — and moved to and from San Diego — without winning a playoff series. And to date, they’ve still never reached a conference final.

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Detroit has won exactly one playoff game since 1957.

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It’s bad enough to lose in the finals in each of your first three years in existence, but St. Louis upped the ante by making the playoffs in 37 of 45 seasons since without winning the conference once.

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Formerly the Montreal Expos, the Nats have only been in Washington since 2005, but the history of D.C. pro baseball dates back to 1901, and it’s been overwhelmingly ugly. The city’s only championship among three separate franchises came in 1924, so fans in our nation’s capital are long overdue for a parade.

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The only thing worse than never winning a Super Bowl is reaching four straight, losing all of them, then winning one playoff game over the next 22 years combined.

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Most of the early 2000s was spent wondering when the Eagles would finally get over the hump and win a Super Bowl. More than a decade later, we’re still waiting.

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It’s been nearly a half-century since Joe Namath’s lucky guess.

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The NHL had six teams the last time the Leafs won (or even played for) a championship, and the team hasn’t won a playoff series since 2004. To say Toronto is desperate to raise a Stanley Cup would be a massive understatement.

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At least the Cavs’ curse is over.

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After 108 years, the Chicago Cubs are finally World Series champions again, which means the most talked-about curse in sports has mercifully come to an end. Still, there are dozens of other clubs across the four major leagues — including the Cleveland Indians team Chicago just beat — waiting anxiously for their latest (or first) chance to raise a trophy and have a parade. But with the Cubs’ well-documented misery now a thing of the past, which remaining drought will take its place as the most significant in sports?

There are several factors that contribute to the significance of a championship dry spell, of course. Certainly length plays a major role, but it’s also not the be all and end all. The market in which the drought occurs definitely matters, too. (Would Chicago’s or Boston’s infamous recent bouts with futility have been such big news if they occurred in Memphis or Portland?) The same goes for the expectations being placed upon the team in the first place and the money the franchise has (or is willing) to spend on payroll.

At the end of the day, classifying degrees of ongoing grief isn’t a perfect science, but we’re going to try. So with that in mind, here’s a subjective look at the 56 most significant active championship droughts the four major North American team sport leagues.

Getty Images Ezra Shaw

Are the Cubs cursed again? That’s the big question entering 2017. This is one drought to watch over the next 108 years.

Getty Images Iconic Archive

The Reds, whose last title came in 1990, had their share of success in the past, but outside of that championship, the club has done next to nothing since the days of the Big Red Machine.

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If history is any guide, the A’s should start a run of three straight World Series appearances any minute now.

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It’s only been 25 years since the Twins’ last World Series win, which really isn’t that bad. But the fact that none of the state’s four major sports teams have reached a championship series in that span makes it feel like forever.

Fans in Winnipeg no doubt feel more of a sting from the 17 fruitless NHL seasons of the previous Jets franchise (now the Coyotes) than the current drought, which began in Atlanta in 1999 before the league returned to Manitoba in 2011.

NHLI via Getty Images Jonathan Kozub

The Tigers have won the World Series every time they’ve won 100 regular season games since the league expanded to 20 teams in 1962. Unfortunately, that hasn’t happened since 1984.

MLB Photos via Getty Images Rich Pilling

Denver’s stunning first-round upset of Seattle in 1994 made for a wonderful moment, but after 40 years in the NBA without a single Finals appearance, Nuggets fans are understandably antsy.

NBAE via Getty Images Tim DeFrisco

When the Chargers, the 1963 AFL champs, played in their lone Super Bowl in 1994, they did so as an 18.5-point underdog, the largest in the game’s history. And if you think they used the slight as motivation, you’re wrong: They lost by 23.

Getty Images Joseph Patronite

If there’s a bright side to moving to Las Vegas, it’s that none of those fans will care that the Raiders’ last Super Bowl win came at the end of the 1983 season.

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What will come first, a Padres World Series or a Padres no-hitter?

AFP/Getty Images Timothy A. Clary

How might the last 30 years of Blazers history look different if they’d drafted Michael Jordan and Kevin Durant instead of Sam Bowie and Greg Oden?

NBAE via Getty Images Brian Drake

There’s not a more unlucky team in basketball than the Jazz, whose best chances at a championship happened to come when the ’90s Rockets and Bulls were at their best.

NBAE via Getty Images Andy Hayt

This is your fault, Jeffrey Maier.

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Washington’s last championship came as the Bullets in the first of back-to-back Finals meetings with the SuperSonics in the late ’70s. And Seattle may very well have a team again by the time the Wizards play for another title.

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The Blueshirts suffer from the same case of unnecessarily elevated expectations as the Cowboys and 49ers of the NFL, except their last title, in ’94, was the storied franchise’s only Cup win since 1940.

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Da Bears had one of the best teams in NFL history in 1985, but save for 2006’s NFC championship run, there hasn’t been much to cheer about at Soldier Field since.

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After winning just nine games in 1972-73, the Sixers rebuilt and played in four of the next 10 NBA Finals, including the franchise’s last win in 1983. So, uh, maybe there’s reason for Philly fans to be optimistic about the next decade?

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The Nets haven’t won a title since the ABA’s final season, and while they had their chances in the early 2000s, there’s not much optimism that another Finals run is imminent.

NBAE via Getty Images Dick Raphael

A lot like the next team on this list, except they’ve been waiting even longer for a return to the top.

Getty Images Jim McIsaac

Anyone 35 and older would likely remember the Oilers as a Wayne Gretzky-led dynasty, but those under 25 may not know Edmonton was ever good. So this one is all relative.

Getty Images B Bennett

Generally speaking, the Mets have been good for about one World Series appearance every 15 or so years. So I’m expecting big things for them in 2030.

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The Caps entered the league in 1974 and have made the playoffs virtually every year since 1983, with little to nothing to show for it.

Getty Images Grant Halverson

Other teams have waited longer for another (or a first) World Series championship, but Pittsburgh hasn’t even won a division title since 1992, Barry Bonds’ last season in black and gold.

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Buffalo entered the NHL at the same time as Vancouver but has one less Stanley Cup appearance and has never won more than two games in a championship series.

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After this long without a Cup, and with several instances of bad playoff luck along the way — including two Game 7 losses in the final — even local writers in Vancouver are starting to wonder if the Canucks might be cursed.

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The Niners fall into the same category as the Cowboys. They set the bar so high in the ’80s and early ’90s that going this long without a Super Bowl feels like a lifetime.

AFP/Getty Images Doug Collier

The Pacers, which haven’t won championship since their ABA days, have reached the conference finals eight times in the past 23 seasons. But sadly, the Curse of Tom Owens is still going strong.

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The Chiefs lost the first Super Bowl, won the fourth one, and have barely even sniffed a conference title since. Among teams that have already won a Super Bowl, only the Jets have been waiting longer for their next championship.

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Outside of one somewhat random AL pennant in 1982, the Brewers — who moved to the NL in 1998 — have done virtually nothing of note in the postseason. In fact, even if they’d won that ring in ’82, they’d still be more than due for another.

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At this point, just getting out of the Wild Card round would be grounds for celebration.

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On one hand, the Rangers didn’t win the franchise’s first playoff series until 2010, but on the other hand, they won the AL pennant both that season and in 2011. In the end, though, 55 years without a title outweighs Texas’ recent success.

Getty Images Tom Szczerbowski

The Falcons and Braves each played their first season in Atlanta in 1966. One of them has won a championship since then, and it’s not the football team.

Allsport Andy Lyons

You can only hang your hat on two Super Bowls and an unbeaten season in the early ’70s for so long. Dan Marino never won it all during his 17-year stint in Miami, and the team’s only playoff win since Marino’s final season came in 2000.

Getty Images Focus on Sport

With any luck, Thon Maker will be the next Lew Alcindor.

WireImage Tony Tomsic

It’s hard to feel too sorry for an Original Six team with 24 championships to its name, but after nearly a quarter century without a Cup celebration in Montreal, the gap between the Habs and have-nots has all but closed.

NHLI via Getty Images Denis Brodeur

The Mariners are the only team in baseball to spend its entire existence in the same city without ever reaching the Fall Classic. But they did win 116 regular-season games 15 years ago, so at least there’s that.

AFP/Getty Images Timothy A. Clary

The Knicks are one of those iconic teams that you’d swear must have won more recently than they actually have.

NBAE via Getty Images Dick Raphael

Formed in 1962 as the Colt .45s, Houston didn’t even win its first playoff series until 2004. And when they finally reached their only World Series, they got swept by the White Sox, who would still be battling a curse of their own if not for that win.

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Formed in 1962 as the Colt .45s, Houston didn’t even win its first playoff series until 2004. And when they finally reached their only World Series, they got swept by the White Sox, who would still be battling a curse of their own if not for that win.

NBAE via Getty Images Dick Raphael

This franchise, which moved to Northern California in 1985, hasn’t won a title since it was the Rochester Royals in 1951. Their last legitimate run at one came in 2002, when Robert Horry ruined everything.

AFP/Getty Images Lucy Nicholson

Amazingly, only five major league teams are currently facing a longer league championship drought than LA, which hasn’t won a World Series since Clayton Kershaw was 7 months old.

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The Phillies broke the Curse of Billy Penn eight years ago, but that hasn’t done much to change the fortunes of the Flyers, who have lost six Stanley Cup finals since winning back-to-back championships in 1974 and 1975.

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The Vikings have lost the NFC title game in overtime twice in the last 20 years — in addition to getting their pants pulled down by the Giants in a third. Things are looking up lately, but it’s tough to feel too optimistic given the team’s history.

AFP/Getty Images John Zich

Somehow, the Browns are worse now than they were during the three years when they didn’t have a team at all.

Getty Images Peter G. Aiken

No one in football has waited longer for a title than the Cardinals, who have taken fans in Chicago, St. Louis and Phoenix along for the ride since winning their last NFL championship in 1947.

Getty Images Streeter Lecka

There are 12 NBA teams without a championship to their name, and none have been playing longer without winning a ring than the Suns, whose only two Finals appearances came in 1976 and 1993.

NBAE via Getty Images Andrew D. Bernstein

For most teams, 20 years without a title wouldn’t be alarming. But when you call yourself America’s Team and have a blank check to spend every offseason, two decades without advancing past the divisional round is cause for absolute panic.

Sporting News via Getty Images Albert Dickson

After reaching the conference semis as the Buffalo Braves in 1976, the Clippers franchise went 30 years — and moved to and from San Diego — without winning a playoff series. And to date, they’ve still never reached a conference final.

USA TODAY Sports Jayne Kamin-Oncea

Detroit has won exactly one playoff game since 1957.

Getty Images Leon Halip

It’s bad enough to lose in the finals in each of your first three years in existence, but St. Louis upped the ante by making the playoffs in 37 of 45 seasons since without winning the conference once.

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Formerly the Montreal Expos, the Nats have only been in Washington since 2005, but the history of D.C. pro baseball dates back to 1901, and it’s been overwhelmingly ugly. The city’s only championship among three separate franchises came in 1924, so fans in our nation’s capital are long overdue for a parade.

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The only thing worse than never winning a Super Bowl is reaching four straight, losing all of them, then winning one playoff game over the next 22 years combined.

Getty Images Rick Stewart

Most of the early 2000s was spent wondering when the Eagles would finally get over the hump and win a Super Bowl. More than a decade later, we’re still waiting.

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It’s been nearly a half-century since Joe Namath’s lucky guess.

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The NHL had six teams the last time the Leafs won (or even played for) a championship, and the team hasn’t won a playoff series since 2004. To say Toronto is desperate to raise a Stanley Cup would be a massive understatement.

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At least the Cavs’ curse is over.

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