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The San Diego Sports Curse

The San Diego Sports Curse or simply the San Diego Curse, is a mythical explanation for San Diego's inability to win a Super Bowl (the San Diego Chargers), World Series, NBA Finals or any other major league sports championship in the United States.

Because of the lack of a championship, and the city's population, San Diego has the distinction of being the largest city in the United States to have never won a Major League Sports championship. Furthermore, San Diego has one of largest sports championship droughts in all of the United States, only winning the AFL championship in 1963.

Unlike other "curses" that seem to strike particular teams (the Boston Red Sox's Curse of the Bambino, the Chicago White Sox's Curse of the Black Sox – both of which seem to have been lifted, and the Chicago Cubs' Curse of the Billy Goat), this evil is said to have struck all professional teams in the city and county of San Diego (much like Philadelphia's Curse of Billy Penn). Neither the San Diego Padres nor the San Diego Chargers has ever won a championship. Nor has any other major sports team that has resided in San Diego (the Clippers and the Rockets) done so while located there.

The cause of the curse is unknown although one explanation offered for the curse is the trade of wideout Lance Alworth to the Dallas Cowboys, which is similar to the Boston Red Sox Curse of the Bambino, as the flip side of the curse was the Cowboy's success after the sale, from becoming a team that seemed to be a perennial loser in championship games over the previous five seasons (the Ice Bowl, Super Bowl V) to a team that won the Super Bowl during his first season in Dallas (and has won 5 Super Bowls overall), as well as the distinction of being "America's Team", while the Chargers were sent into a huge championship drought, although that wouldn't explain why all San Diego teams are cursed.

No official name has been established by anyone for all of San Diego's misery and heartbreak, hence the name San Diego Sports Curse.