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The 1967 Detroit Lions season was the 38th season in franchise history. On August 5, the Lions met the Denver Broncos in the first inter-league exhibition game. The Broncos beat the Lions 13–7 to become the first AFL team to beat an NFL team. [1] [2] [3]
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]
As a rookie in 1967, Barney appeared in all 14 games as a starting cornerback and led the NFL with 10 interceptions, 232 interception return yards and three interceptions returned for touchdowns. [1] After an injury to Pat Studstill , Barney also took over as the Lions' punter, punting 47 times for an average of 37.4 yards in 1967. [ 1 ]
For the rest of the players, see Detroit Lions all-time roster (Lat–Z). This list is accurate through the end of the 2024 NFL season. The Lions franchise was founded in Portsmouth, Ohio as the Portsmouth Spartans. In 1934, the franchise moved to Detroit and changed their name to the Lions, which was a play on the name of the Detroit Tigers.
The Detroit Lions added a free agent signee and a 2019 draft pick to their list of roster cuts.
He played in the North-South Shrine Game before the 1968 draft. [1] [2] He was in the 1968 Chicago Charities All Star Game, playing with the collegians against the NFL champion Green Bay Packers. Landry threw a touchdown pass to future Lions teammate Earl McCullough. [3] He was selected All-Yankee Conference for two seasons. [5]
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 Detroit Lions will trim their roster to 53 active players by Tuesday's 4 p.m. roster cut deadline. All NFL teams will have to cut their training camp roster of 90 players down to the top 53 ...