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The 2002 season was the Detroit Lions' 73rd in the National Football League (NFL). It was the Lions’ inaugural season at the new Ford Field in Downtown Detroit and their first in the city since the team left Tiger Stadium after the 1974 season. Following the season, Marty Mornhinweg was fired and Steve Mariucci was hired as the Lions' head coach.
The Detroit Lions have played their home games at Ford Field since 2002. [1]The Detroit Lions are a professional American football team based in Detroit, Michigan.The Lions compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the North Division of the National Football Conference (NFC). [2]
Season Season series at Detroit Lions at Minnesota Vikings Overall series Notes 1970: Vikings 2–0: Vikings 30–17: Vikings 24–20: Tie 9–9–2 As a result of the AFL–NFL merger, the Lions and Vikings were placed in the newly formed National Football Conference (NFC) and the NFC Central (later renamed to the NFC North in the 2002 season ...
The Lions can score in a number of ... Detroit came into this season with Super Bowl hopes after barely missing out on winning the NFC championship last season. ... It’s more like the 2002 ...
Several other NFL teams played regularly on Thanksgiving in the first eighteen years of the league, including the Chicago Bears and Chicago Cardinals (1922–33; the Bears played the Lions from 1934 to 1938 while the Cardinals switched to the Green Bay Packers for 1934 and 1935), Frankford Yellow Jackets, Pottsville Maroons, Buffalo All-Americans, Canton Bulldogs (even after the team moved to ...
Jared Goff and the Detroit Lions spent three months scoring at a historic rate. Jahmyr Gibbs rushed for two scores, David Montgomery added a third TD run and Detroit's increasingly stingy defense ...
The Lions had a shot to win it in regulation, but Goff misfired on a third-down pass and Detroit settled for a game-tying field goal with 17 seconds left. The game went to overtime. The Lions won ...
The November 30 game between the Denver Broncos and the Seattle Seahawks marked the final Monday Night Football game at the Kingdome, which was the last MNF game in Seattle until 2002. The December 28 game between the Detroit Lions and the San Francisco 49ers marked running back Barry Sanders's debut on Monday Night Football.