Andy Murray won the “gentlemen’s” singles championship at Wimbledon today, the first Briton to do so since Fred Perry in 1936.

Yes. Seventy-seven years ago.

And there went another great losing streak.

I am on record expressing support for the continuation of all prominent losing streaks. They give context and shape to teams, people and events. “Haven’t won since …!”

Five of the best losing streaks we have left:

1. The Chicago Cubs and the World Series. The Cubbies most recently were baseball’s champions in 1908 (!). Another way to look at this? For the Cubs to have won a title in your lifetime … you need to be 105 years old.

2. The Cleveland Indians have not won the World Series since 1948. At least they have played in three, during that time, including twice in the 1990s. The Cubs have not played in the World Series since 1945.

3. England has failed to win a major soccer championship since 1966. Masters of the Game, all that, and they have not made a World Cup or European Cup final, even, in 47 years.

4. The Houston Astros have never won a World Series, and they have been playing Major League Baseball since 1962. Into their second 50 years of winning nothing; pretty impressive, even if it falls far short of the Cubs.

5. Oregon State has not won the Rose Bowl since 1942, even though the Beavers have played in the conference that produces one of the Rose Bowl teams for most of a century.

6. While we are thinking Rose Bowl, Arizona has never played in the Rose Bowl at all, and it has been part of the Pac-10/12 since 1978. That’s 35 years now.

7. Not exactly a “losing” streak, but no Major League Baseball player has hit .400 since Ted Williams in 1941. That isn’t recent, anymore. (Meawhile, Roger Maris’s home record, from 1961, was eclipsed numerous times by steroid puffed sluggers, none of whom hit .400; thus steroids help you hit a ball a long way, but apparently are not as good at helping you hit the ball in the first place.

8. South Africa cricket, zero world championships. South Africa has been one of the world’s top cricket teams for 50 years, and in August of last year was ranked No. 1 in all three cricket formats — Twenty20, One-Day International and Test. And it isn’t like the world has a bunch of elite cricket countries. (Maybe four, actually.) But they have gained a reputation for choking when a specific championship can be won.

9. The Detroit Lions have not won an NFL championship since 1957, which was 10 years before the first Super Bowl. No NFL team has waited so long.

10. The Cincinnati Royals/Kansas City-Sacramento Kings have not won an NBA title since 1951, or 62 years ago.

11. Cycling back to Andy Murray … the U.S. has not had a male winner at Wimbledon since 2000, when Pete Sampras won his seventh. The victory was the 15th by an American male since 1972. Andy Roddick reached the final in 2004, 205 and 2009, but list each time, and with no elite American players on the horizon, maybe the U.S. is on the way to threatening Britain’s 77-year drought.