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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.
As a rookie, he caught eight passes for 95 yards and a touchdown in the Lions' divisional playoff game against the San Francisco 49ers. He also had two touchdown catches in the Lions' victory over the Cleveland Browns in the 1957 NFL Championship Game. He missed the 1958 season after sustaining a knee injury and never fully recovered from his ...
"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 ...
The 1957 National Football League season resulted in a tie for the Western Conference championship between the Detroit Lions and San Francisco 49ers. Both finished at 8–4 and had split their two games during the regular season in November, with the home team winning each. The tie thus required a one-game playoff to be held between the two teams.
The Lions have not won a road playoff game since Dec. 22, 1957, when they beat the San Francisco 49ers to advance to the NFL championship game. Surviving members of 1957 Detroit Lions title team ...
After a 6-game preseason slate, the league's 12 teams played a 12-game league schedule — 72 regular season contests in all. The season ended on Sunday, December 28, with a "World's Championship Playoff" held in the home city of the Western Conference champions, [ 1 ] won 59–14 by the Detroit Lions over the Cleveland Browns .
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.