The Indians, on the other hand, now have
the longest championship drought in baseball, at 68 years.
When it comes to baseball history, these are already two of
the longest championship droughts that have ever existed in the sport.
The longer the championship drought, the more unreasonable we should expect teams to act at the trade deadline.
The Patriots are trying to end a decade -
long championship drought, and a win would give Tom Brady and Bill Belichick their fourth Super Bowl ring, which would put them both in rarefied air.
But as sports leagues continue to expand, the probability that some team or another team will suffer an equally
long championship drought is growing right along with them.
Not exact matches
Some Fast Women, but Few Free Men 24 While the ladies excelled at the U. S.
long course
championships, there was a
drought in the male freestyle events by Craig Neff
While Mary T. Meagher, who set two world records in the butterfly, and other ladies excelled at the U.S.
long course
championships, there was a serious
drought in the male freestyle events
After snapping their 108 - year
championship drought in 2016, the Cubs looked like a juggernaut, as poised as any team in baseball to sustain a
long run of excellence.
The Cubs no
longer have to deal with an ever - growing
championship drought that spanned over a century: they are the 2016 World Series champions, and it'll take decades before they can be considered losers again.
Not only did the
long - suffering team break two longstanding
championship droughts — the Cubbies had gone 71 years without winning their league, and a whopping 108 years without winning a World Series — they did it with the sort of panache that definitively puts to rest all talk of goats and curses.