Eventually we’re going to get to our next NFL Thursday miniseries, but right now, we want to address the elephant in the room of professional football in America: there are four teams that have never played in the Super Bowl, and it’s time to put this list to rest. Specifically, those teams are the Cleveland Browns (born 1946), the Detroit Lions (1930), the Houston Texans (2002), and the Jacksonville Jaguars (1995).

Of course, the Browns (1950, 1954, 1955, 1964) and the Lions (1935, 1952, 1953, 1957) both have won multiple NFL championships—just not Super Bowls. And the other franchises are expansion teams born in the middle of the Super Bowl era; we can forgive them and put them on the secondary list here. But wouldn’t it be something to see Cleveland (currently 6-3) and Detroit (7-2) in the Super Bowl come February 11, 2024?

Interestingly enough, Houston (5-4) and Jacksonville (6-3) also have winning records right now, so honestly, we’d take any of the three AFC teams in a matchup against Detroit in Las Vegas for the NFL title. The Browns just lost their starting quarterback for the year, and with his individual starting record sitting at 5-1, it now becomes longer odds for Cleveland to reach the Promised Land this season. That’s a shame for Browns fans.

The symmetry of the two “Team(s) of the 1950s” meeting in the Super Bowl would be ideal, but perhaps the Trevor Lawrence Agenda can get the Jags there instead? The Texans seem to be a bit fluky at this point, but the Lions are sitting pretty with a realistic shot at the top seed in the NFC playoffs, thanks to an “easy” schedule in the second half of the season. Alas, there’s no sure thing in any sport these days, so we will see.

But it would be great to see a Super Bowl matchup with a guaranteed first-time winner, so we are pulling for Detroit to play whichever of three above AFC teams in the Super Bowl from now on—this year and every year until it happens. Like Chris Berman in the 1990s, we will just root for the same two teams to make it every season, even though it never happened for his Buffalo-San Francisco wishes. Will we be luckier?!