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The 2008 Detroit Lions season was the franchise's 79th season in the National Football League (NFL), and their 75th as the Detroit Lions. The Lions made history by becoming the first team since the schedule was expanded to 16 games to finish winless. [1] It is one of only four winless seasons since the merger.
Detroit Lions roster – the team's active roster and practice squad, typically composed of 53 and 16 players, respectively. [6] [7] [8]Detroit Lions all-time roster – the team's all-time roster, composed of any player who has participated in at least one regular season or postseason game (preseason games do not apply).
Two of these teams, the Jacksonville Jaguars and the Houston Texans, are expansion teams in the AFC that began play in 1995 and 2002 respectively. [10] Additionally, the Lions have won only three post-season games since 1957. [11] [12] [13] The Lions also lost an NFL-record nine consecutive playoff games from 1991 to 2023. [14] [7]
[1] [6] Amid financial struggles, the franchise was relocated to Detroit in 1934 and renamed the Lions in reference to the city's Major League Baseball (MLB) franchise, the Detroit Tigers. [6] [7] The Lions won four NFL Championship Games between 1935 and 1957. Following the 1957 championship, the franchise did not win a playoff game until the ...
The annual NFL Top 100 players list has now been fully released ahead of the 2023-24 season, with the final 10 players coming out on Aug. 3.Although the Lions didn't have any players who cracked ...
The team has reached the 11-win mark that the 2014, 1962 and 1931 teams did and still has over a month to match the 12-win ceiling set by the 1991 and 2023 teams. MONARREZ: Detroit Lions struggles ...
A winless season is a regular season in which a sports team fails to win any of its games. The antithesis of a perfect season, winless seasons have been suffered twelve times in professional American football, six times in arena football, three times in professional Canadian football, once each in American professional lacrosse and box lacrosse, more than twenty-five times in major Australian ...
A win would not only put the Lions two games ahead of the Packers in the loss column; it would show that Detroit wasn’t some one-year Cinderella — that the Lions could be capable of being the ...