Let us count the days since the NFL’s final four teams last tasted the championship round.
Kansas City Chiefs: 358
Philadelphia Eagles: 722
Buffalo Bills: 1,457
Washington Commanders: 12,062
It’s been a rough few decades for Washington, but with rookie sensation Jayden Daniels upstaging a star-studded field in the divisional round, the Commanders are back in the NFC Championship Game for the first time since January 1992. That’s a span of seven presidential administrations and so long ago that this twice-renamed franchise’s 65-year-old minority owner, Magic Johnson, was still a month away from his final All-Star Game performance when the 1991 Redskins got this far.
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