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The 2007 Detroit Tigers season was the team's 107th season and its eighth at Comerica Park. The season ended with the 88–74 Tigers finishing runner-up in the American League Central , eight games in back of the Cleveland Indians .
Mike Ilitch, the Tigers owner since 1992, died at the age of 87 on February 10, 2017. [471] The team remains in an Ilitch family trust, under the leadership of Mike's son, Christopher Ilitch. [472] [473] Like the Detroit Red Wings, the Tigers honored their owner in multiple ways, the most prominent being a "Mr. I" uniform patch.
1898 The Page Fence Giants, based in Adrian, claim the Western Negro baseball league championship. 1932 The Detroit Wolves are the Negro East-West League champions. 1935 The Detroit Tigers win their first World Series. 1935 The Detroit Lions win their first National Football League championship. 1936 The Detroit Red Wings win their first ...
The Tigers won 101 games in 1961 but fell short of the pennant by eight games. Six years later, they finished one game short of the Boston Red Sox for the pennant after losing the last game of the year. The following year, they would take hold of the pennant with 103 victories while McLain won the MVP Award and the Cy Young Award.
The 2007 NFL season was the 88th regular season of the National Football League (NFL). Regular-season play was held from September 6 to December 30. The campaign kicked off with the defending Super Bowl XLI champion Indianapolis Colts defeating the New Orleans Saints in the NFL Kickoff Game .
Mike Ilitch, the Tigers owner since 1992, died at the age of 87 on February 10, 2017. [473] The team remains in an Ilitch family trust, under the leadership of Mike's son, Christopher Ilitch. [474] [475] Like the Detroit Red Wings, the Tigers honored their owner in multiple ways, the most prominent being a "Mr. I" uniform patch.
Sudden death overtime was finally approved for the NFL championship game in 1946 [7] and has remained in effect ever since. [8] [9] The first playoff game requiring overtime was the 1958 NFL Championship Game. The 1955 and 1960 NFL championship games were played on Monday afternoons, Christmas having fallen on a Sunday in those years.
In 1952, Layne led the Lions to their first NFL Championship in 17 years, and then did so again in 1953 for back-to-back league titles. They fell short of a three-peat in 1954 when they lost 56–10 to Cleveland Browns in the NFL championship game , a loss which Layne explained by saying, "I slept too much last night."