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The 2010 Detroit Lions season was the franchise's 81st season in the National Football League (NFL). It was Jim Schwartz's second season as head coach. The Lions spent most of the season at the bottom of their division, but with more division wins than the Minnesota Vikings (whose overall record was the same), the Lions ended up at 3rd place on the final day of the season with a victory over ...
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] The franchise was founded in Portsmouth, Ohio, as the Portsmouth Spartans and joined the NFL on July 12, 1930. [3]
The Lions have played the Rams more than any other non-divisional team with 89 total matchups over the years dating back to 1937. In the 2023–24 playoffs, the Rams and Lions met for their first postseason matchup since 1952. The Lions won 24–23 in Matthew Stafford's first game back in Detroit since being traded to the Rams. [65]
Detroit Lions principal owner and chair Sheila Ford Hamp talks to Lions legend Barry Sanders during warmups before the opener vs. the Los Angeles Rams at Ford Field in Detroit on Sunday, Sept. 8 ...
Part of the irony, though, is that the team that benefitted from Chicago’s latest crunch-time disaster, the Detroit Lions (11-1), has gone to great lengths in preparing for situational football.
Detroit Lions owner William Clay Ford and head coach Wayne Fontes in 1995 at the Pontiac Silverdome. Ford officially acquired ownership Jan. 10, 1964.
Hamp had served as vice chairwoman of the Lions since 2014, and succeeded her mother Martha Firestone Ford on June 23, 2020. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Sheila Firestone Ford was born to William Clay Ford Sr. (son of Edsel Ford and grandson of Henry Ford ) and Martha Firestone Ford , of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company fortune, in 1951.
The 27-year-old Montgomery played 14 games this season for the Lions, recording 775 rushing yards and 12 touchdowns, while also picking up 341 receiving yards out of the backfield.