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The Lions have won four NFL championships, all of which pre-date the existence of the Super Bowl. The Lions' four championships are tied for the tenth most total championships amongst all 32 NFL franchises; [ 7 ] the last of these was in 1957, which gives the club the second-longest NFL championship drought behind the Arizona Cardinals . [ 8 ]
The history of the Detroit Lions, a professional American football franchise based in Detroit, dates back to 1928 when they played in Portsmouth, Ohio as the Spartans.They joined the National Football League (NFL) in 1930, then moved to Detroit and changed their name to the Lions in 1934 and won their first NFL Championship the following season.
Dan Campbell is the current head coach of the Detroit Lions. The Lions have had 30 head coaches throughout their franchise history. Their first head coach was Hal Griffen, who compiled a 5–6–3 (.464) overall record with the team of 1930. Wayne Fontes was the longest-tenured head coach in Lions history, serving from 1988 to 1996. [48]
A history of the Detroit Lions since their last championship in 1957, the deeply researched book focuses on the Ford family’s six-decade stewardship of the team, culminating with this season’s ...
"The Detroit History Podcast" looked at that championship Lions team five years ago, when the team was mired in a decades-long rut. The team had a 6-10 record in 2018. The team had a 6-10 record ...
1992 →. The 1991 Detroit Lions season was the franchise's 62nd season in the National Football League, their 58th as the Detroit Lions. It stands as one of the team's best seasons since the NFL-AFL merger in 1970, [1] and the first time when the Lions made it to the NFC Championship Game. The team finished 12–4, setting a new franchise ...
The 1957 NFL Championship Game was the 25th annual championship game of the National Football League (NFL), held on December 29 at Briggs Stadium in Detroit, Michigan.. The Detroit Lions (8–4), winners of the Western Conference in a playoff the previous week, hosted the Cleveland Browns (9–2–1), champions of the Eastern Conference.
Roger Zatkoff, one of the last living members of the Detroit Lions' 1957 championship team, died last week at 90 years old.. Zatkoff was a standout linebacker at Michigan and with the Lions in the ...