Expansion team titles in the same year NFL and baseball

The Denver Broncos’ (an original AFL team beginning play in 1960) denial of an expansion Carolina Panthers’ title means only three times since any expansion took place in the NFL or major league baseball, that two expansion one in each sport won titles in the same year.

That is 55 completed seasons in both sports (1960-2015) with there having been no World Series in 1994.

The first time it happened, a pair of the same expansion teams the baseball Toronto Blue Jays and Dallas Cowboys won titles together in back to back years in 1992 and 1993.

The only other and last time it happened was 2002 when the Anaheim Angels and Tampa Bay Buccaneers won crowns together in 2002.

This just completed 2015 seasons first had yielded an expansion Kansas City Royals title but the Panthers were denied.

Joe Carter pictured above just after hitting the World series winning home run for the 1993 Toronto Blue Jays.