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* The Minnesota Vikings. are an even better example, as they're one of the two teams that have gone to the Super Bowl four times and failed every time.
* The early-90s Buffalo Bills make every other entry on this page look like clutch players. They won 4 straight AFC Championships and attending 4 straight Super Bowls, the only four in their history. To this day, they're 0-4 in Super Bowls. And they haven't been back to the playoffs in 10 years, since they were eliminated by the "Music City Miracle". Most notably, in 2004 they entered the last week of the season needing to beat Pittsburgh to get in to the playoffs, with Pittsburgh having already locked up their seed and resting their starters. ''They lost at home to Pittsburgh's 2nd and 3rd string by a touchdown.''
** A common [[Fun with Acronyms]] joke: "Boy I Lose Lots of Superbowls"
* The Houston Oilers. Ever wonder why they were nicknamed "Choke City"? It's because they made the postseason during a seven year stretch between 1987 and 1993, but had three exceptional collapses during the postseason between 1991 and 1993.
** First, the 1991 Divisional playoff game against Denver. The high-powered offense of the Oilers shot out to a 21-13 halftime lead, and late in the game a punt pinned the Broncos back to their 2-yard line, where trailing 24-23, John Elway led a late-game drive punctuated by two fourth-down conversions to set up the winning field-goal in what some dubbed "The Drive II" (same spot on field, and almost five years after "the Drive")
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=== [[Professional Wrestling]] ===
* [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]]'s angle for the revival of [[ECW]] was based on this - Rob Van Dam was built up as, in Joey Styles' words, the greatest competitor to never win a World championship, heading into his battle with WWE Champion John Cena in the main-event of the revival show One Night Stand. By the time the show was over, [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|he wasn't without one anymore.]]
* [[Chris Benoit]] was the subject of a similar storyline going into ''[[Wrestlemania]] XX'', where both [[Triple H]] and [[Shawn Michaels]] made a huge deal over the fact that, despite receiving numerous opportunities, he always seemed to choke in world title matches, and thus both felt he was not in their league. Guess who won?
* As it stands, most would probably go with either The Million Dollar Man Ted Dibiase or "Mr. Perfect" Curt Hennig as the greatest competitor to have not been granted the world title.
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