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The history of the Detroit Lions, a professional American football franchise based in Detroit, dates back to 1928 when they played in Portsmouth, Ohio as the Spartans.They joined the National Football League (NFL) in 1930 before they were bought by George A. Richards, a radio executive, and moved to Detroit and changed their name to the Lions in 1934 and won their first NFL Championship the ...
Super Bowl III in January 1969 was the first such game that carried the "Super Bowl" moniker in official marketing; the names "Super Bowl I" and "Super Bowl II" were retroactively applied to the first two games. [4] A total of 20 franchises, including teams that have relocated to another city or changed their name, have won the Super Bowl. [5]
This was the last NFL playoff game played in the city of Detroit other than Super Bowl XL until 2024 as the Lions' other two home playoff games prior (1992 and 1994) were at the Silverdome in suburban Pontiac.
No matter how many birthdays you've had, Sunday's Detroit Lions game against San Francisco is once-in-a-lifetime-so-far. Yes, the Lions won the NFL championship in 1957, which beat not winning it ...
The Lions’ 1953 team was the last NFL champion without a Black player. By then, Detroit’s Black population had doubled from 149,000 in 1940 to 300,000 in 1950.
The NFL Championship Game was ended after the 1969 season, succeeded by the NFC Championship Game. [2] [6] The champions of that game play the champions of the AFC Championship Game in the Super Bowl to determine the NFL champion. [2] The Green Bay Packers won the most NFL championships before the merger, winning eleven of the fifty ...
Only four NFL teams have not played in a Super Bowl – the Cleveland Browns, Detroit Lions, Houston Texans and Jacksonville Jaguars. This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Super Bowl ...
[4] [5] The team plays its home games at Ford Field in Downtown Detroit. [6] The Lions have won four NFL championships, all of which pre-date the existence of the Super Bowl. The Lions' four championships are tied for the tenth most total championships amongst all 32 NFL franchises; [7] the last of these was in 1957, which gives the club the ...