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Longest Title Droughts For New York/New Jersey Teams

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — On Tuesday or Wednesday night, either the Cleveland Indians or Chicago Cubs will end one of the longest title droughts in professional sports.

For the Indians, they last won a world title in 1948. Cubs fans, meanwhile, have been waiting since 1908.

The nine major pro sports in the New York/New Jersey area haven’t had it quite as bad as the Indians and Cubs, but they’ve all experienced varying degrees of their own droughts. Here is a look at the longest each franchise has seen.

DEVILS: 14 years and counting (2003-present)

Members of the 2015-16 New Jersey Devils (Photo by Elsa/Getty Images)
Members of the 2015-16 New Jersey Devils (Photo by Elsa/Getty Images)

Technically, it took the franchise 21 years to win its first title, but some of those years came when the team was known as the Kansas City Scouts and Colorado Rockies.