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Lions - Team History
Detroit Lions, professional football team and one of five teams in
the Central Division of the National Football Conference (NFC) of
the National Football League (NFL). Under the league’s realignment
plan, which will take affect in 2002, the Lions will move into the
North Division of the NFC. The Lions play at the Pontiac Silverdome
in Pontiac, Michigan, and wear uniforms of blue, silver, and white.
The Lions built
a dynasty during the 1950s, capturing four Western Division crowns
and three NFL titles from 1952 through 1957. (The Super Bowl was
not played until 1967.) During this time, running back John Henry
Johnson, quarterback Bobby Layne, and running back Doak Walker—all
future Hall of Fame members—starred under coaches Buddy Parker
and George Wilson. After many disappointing seasons from the early
1960s through the 1980s, Detroit assembled strong teams during the
1990s, reaching the playoffs four times from 1991 to 1995 under
head coach Wayne Fontes. Star running back Barry Sanders recorded
nine consecutive 1000-yard seasons from 1989 to 1997.
The Detroit
Lions franchise traces its origin to the Portsmouth Spartans, a
team based in Ohio that entered the NFL in 1930. In 1932 the Spartans
played in the league’s first postseason game, losing 9-0 to
the Chicago Bears. In 1934 the club was sold to radio station owner
George Richards, who moved the team to Detroit and renamed it the
Lions.
In Detroit’s
first season, quarterback Dutch Clark led the team in rushing, passing,
and scoring. The Lions shut out their first 7 opponents and surrendered
a record-low average of 4.5 points per game for the season, but
they failed to qualify for the playoffs. In 1935 the Lions earned
their first NFL title, shutting out 3 of 12 regular-season opponents
and soundly defeating the New York Giants in the championship game.
Ernie Caddel was the team’s top runner and pass receiver.
In 1940 future
United States Supreme Court Justice Byron White, a running back,
topped the league in rushing and also led the Lions in passing and
scoring, but Detroit remained near the bottom of their division.
Two years later the franchise lost all 11 games of the 1942 season
and scored only 38 points for the year.
Detroit didn’t
return to the postseason until 1952, when head coach Buddy Parker
steered the team to its first of two consecutive NFL titles. Bobby
Layne, a two-time NFL yardage champion, directed a Lions offense
that also starred Doak Walker. The club’s many defensive standouts
included safety Jack Christiansen, defensive back Yale Lary, and
linebacker Joe Schmidt. Lary also ranked among the league’s
finest punters. The Lions defeated the perennial Eastern Division
powerhouse Cleveland Browns in the championship games of 1952 and
1953.
Detroit won
its third league championship in 1957 under first-year head coach
George Wilson. The veteran Layne was joined on offense by John Henry
Johnson. The Lions once again defeated Cleveland in the championship
game, routing the favored Browns by 45 points.
From 1958 to
1981 Detroit reached the postseason just once, in 1970. Many players
enjoyed individual success during the period, including defensive
backs Lem Barney and Dick “Night Train” Lane, tackle
(and future actor) Alex Karras, quarterback Greg Landry, linebacker
Mike Lucci, tight end Charlie Sanders, and wide receiver Pat Studstill.
In 1975 the team moved into the Silverdome, the largest air-supported
domed structure in the world.
In 1980 the
Lions enjoyed their first winning season in eight years. Powering
the offense was running back Billy Sims, who was named NFL rookie
of the year. Head coach Monte Clark steered Detroit into the playoffs
in 1982 and 1983. The team’s division title in 1983 was its
first in 26 years.
Head coach Wayne
Fontes took the Lions to the postseason in 1991, as Detroit won
a franchise-record 12 games and played in its first NFC Championship
Game. Fontes won the NFL coach of the year award. Detroit’s
offense in the early and mid-1990s featured Barry Sanders, who won
NFC rushing titles in 1989, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997. Detroit
made the playoffs in 1993, 1994, and 1995 but lost in the first
round each year. After a poor 1996 season Fontes was replaced by
former San Diego Chargers head coach Bobby Ross.
The Detroit
Lions have never played in the Super Bowl.
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