NFL "Pain Rankings" (seriously). And the winner is ...

How could it be anybody else?

For the past two weeks, we've counted down the NFL teams and fan bases that have suffered the most through the years. Deciding where to slot each of the damned in the "top seven" was a difficult process (a process, it must be acknowledged, I took waaaaay too seriously). The truth of the matter is that a case can be made for each of the teams to land anywhere in the first six spots.

Each team except ... the Cleveland Browns.

In an exercise that focuses on the Super Bowl era, nobody can touch the unadulterated hurt of Cleveland's football enterprise. Zero Super Bowl trips, a trio of iconic playoff losses in the '80s, the outright elimination of the franchise for a period in the '90s and an unrelenting struggle in the post-rebirth 2000s.

STORY: http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000503270/article/pain-rankings-no-1-the-cleveland-browns

No. 1 Cleveland Browns
No. 2 New York Jets
No. 3 Buffalo Bills
No. 4 Detroit Lions
No. 5 Minnesota Vikings
No. 6 Cincinnati Bengals
No. 7 Kansas City Chiefs