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The 1957 NFL Championship Game was the 25th annual championship game of the National ... The Detroit Lions ... Each player on the winning Lions team received $4,295 ...
This also marks the last time the Lions have won a playoff game away from home; they are 0–12 on the road in NFL postseason games since. The Lions were home underdogs for the NFL championship game against Cleveland. [9] Played on December 29 at Briggs Stadium in Detroit, the Lions led 17–0 after the first quarter and won in a rout, 59–14.
Schmidt had perhaps his best season in 1957. As team captain, he appeared in every game and led the 1957 Lions to their third NFL championship in six years. [25] Schmidt intercepted two passes in the post-season and led the Lions to a 59–14 victory over the Browns in the 1957 NFL Championship Game.
When we visited Joe Schmidt in 2017, he still fondly remembered his 1957 Detroit Lions. He was the captain and revealed what made the team great.
He was part of the Lions’ last two championship teams, in 1953 and ’57, and remembers beating the 49ers in San Francisco’s old Kezar Stadium in the division title game on Dec. 22, 1957, for ...
"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 ...
[1] [6] Amid financial struggles, the franchise was relocated to Detroit in 1934 and renamed the Lions in reference to the city's Major League Baseball (MLB) franchise, the Detroit Tigers. [6] [7] The Lions won four NFL Championship Games between 1935 and 1957. Following the 1957 championship, the franchise did not win a playoff game until the ...
Detroit Lions quarterback Bobby Layne, left, who broke his ankle prior to the game, hugs quarterback Tobin Rote after the Lions beat the San Francisco 49ers in the Western Conference championship ...