The National Football League makes sure that a few teams cannot pull too far ahead of the rest of the competition. Yes, some teams-- especially ones with elite quarterbacks, are going to win much more than teams with bad quarterbacks. However, with the salary cap and revenue sharing rules in place, any team can afford a franchise quarterback.

The New England Patriots were an NFL doormat for a generation, but with Drew Bledsoe, and later Tom Brady, they have become the league's gold standard. Tiny Green Bay, Wisconson can support a championship-winning franchise. In both cases, these organizations have won Super Bowls simply because their best players aren't under constant threat of being swept up by the ultra-rich Dallas Cowboys.

And the way leagues implement their draft process allows for the worst teams to have the best access to young talent, allowing the NBA's Philidelphia 76ers to be good right now because of years of unwatchable basketball.

While not every team goes into 2018 with a chance to win the Lombardi Trophy, NBA title, or any other North American sports championship, any team can win any game, and every team has a realistic chance of winning a title within the next decade or two in America's biggest and most popular leagues.

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