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Stafford in 2009. On September 6, 2009, Lions head coach Jim Schwartz announced that Stafford would be the Lions' starting quarterback heading into the season. [76] [77] [78] He was the first Lions rookie quarterback to start in Week 1 since Greg Landry in 1968. [79] He completed 16 of 37 passes for 205 yards and three interceptions.
On February 28, 2009, the Lions traded quarterback Jon Kitna, who sat out most of the 2008 season with a back injury, to the Dallas Cowboys for cornerback Anthony Henry. [7] On March 14, 2009, the Lions traded defensive tackle Cory Redding and a fifth round draft pick to the Seattle Seahawks for linebacker Julian Peterson. [8]
Super Bowl XLIV was an American football game between the National Football Conference (NFC) champions New Orleans Saints and the American Football Conference (AFC) champions Indianapolis Colts to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for the 2009 season.
Dawson was 1–0 in an AFL Championship game played before the NFL and AFL first met in the Super Bowl. Three pairs of quarterbacks faced off twice in the Super Bowl: Staubach and Bradshaw, Aikman and Kelly, and Brady and Eli Manning. In each case the same quarterback (Bradshaw, Aikman, and Manning) won both games.
The Lions' dream of the franchise's Super Bowl appearance ... Quarterback Jared Goff was especially regretful of his first-half pick-six to Quan Martin that put the Lions into a 10-point hole five ...
There are four NFL teams that have never appeared in a Super Bowl: the Cleveland Browns, Detroit Lions, Jacksonville Jaguars, and Houston Texans, though both the Browns (1950, 1954, 1955, 1964) and Lions (1935, 1952, 1953, 1957) had won NFL Championship Games prior to the creation of the Super Bowl in the 1966 season.
The Detroit Lions are one of the best teams in the NFC because they’ve gotten some of the best quarterback play in conference, and the nine teams with a legitimate chance to win Super Bowl 58 ...
The Detroit Lions' 31-9 win over the Minnesota Vikings in the final game of the 2024 regular season had a playoff vibe to it. The spoils for the Lions (15-2) were the No. 1 seed in the NFC and ...