With the Saints making it to the Super Bowl, only the Lions remain of pre-1970 AFL-NFL merger teams not to have appeared in the Super Bowl. The Cardinals [[late of Chicago and St. Louis) and the Saints, a '67 expansion team, were the other pre-1970 teams that had not been to the Super Bowl with the Cardinals making it to the big game last year.

I'm going to make a Van Patrick-style prediction that the Lions will make it to the Super Bowl before the end of the decade. Or is that more of a JFK-style prediction?