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Patriots Top List for Most Super Bowl Appearances

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Source: Statista

After losing in the AFC Conference Championship last year to the New England Patriots, the Kansas City Chiefs made the Super Bowl this year – the first time since 1970. The upcoming game on Feb 2 will be the Chiefs’ third Super Bowl appearance (and could be their second win). While this is not a lot compared to other teams, it is however not the worst performance in history. There are still four teams – the Cleveland Browns, the Jacksonville Jaguars, the Detroit Lions and the Houston Texans – which have never played a Super Bowl, and 13 more teams which have competed only once or twice. Jacksonville and Houston only joined the competition in 1995 and 2002, respectively.

The Chiefs’ opponents, the San Francisco 49ers, will make this year’s their seventh participation. This makes them the team with the fifth most Super Bowl appearances. They are already tied for second most Super Bowl wins and could tie for most if they take this year’s trophy.

The New England Patriots are the team with most Super Bowl appearances, according to statistics published by ESPN, followed by the Pittsburgh Steelers, the Dallas Cowboys and the Denver Broncos. Yet, the Patriots are the among the teams with below average wins to participation ratios, with only six wins out of 11 Super Bowls played. The most unlucky team among the Super Bowl participants are the Minnesota Vikings. They played in the Super Bowl in 1970, 1974, 1975 and 1977 but failed to win any of those competitions.

Americans Love the NFL, But Change Is Looming

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As the NFL playoffs proceed and we’re drawing closer to what is arguably the biggest game in any sport, millions of Americans are looking forward to Sunday’s championship games which will determine who will face off in Super Bowl LIV at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida on February 2.

While Baseball is often referred to as “America’s favorite pastime”, the NFL has long surpassed the MLB as the nation’s favorite professional sports league. For several reasons, including first and foremost its better suitability for television, football flew by baseball as Americans’ favorite sport to watch in the 1960s and hasn’t looked back since. If anything, baseball is on the verge of being surpassed by basketball as well, as younger audiences prefer the action-packed, instagrammable NBA over what many young viewers consider the dragging affair of a three-hour baseball game.

According to a poll conducted by Morning Consult in July 2019, the NFL is the no. 1 league to follow for 33 percent of U.S. adults, followed by the MLB (16 percent) and the NBA (10 percent). The NFL shouldn’t be resting on its laurels, however, as its popularity fades with younger audiences. Among 18- to 22-year-olds, the youngest cohort in the survey, only 23 percent picked the NFL as their favorite league, with the NBA a not-too-distant second (19 percent).

Interestingly, Major League Soccer still plays a minor role in the U.S. sporting landscape despite the sport’s popularity among younger Americans. Despite efforts to make the league more attractive, it is still considered a second-tier league in the global sport of soccer, which is why many American soccer fans follow the English Premier League instead.