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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]
They became the sixth consecutive team with 15 wins in the regular season to fail to win the Super Bowl, and the second to not win a playoff game, after rival 2011 Green Bay Packers. The focal point of the Lions' success was the offense; their 564 total points scored were the most in the NFL and the fourth most ever in a regular season. [ 1 ]
There are four NFL teams that have never appeared in a Super Bowl: the Cleveland Browns, Detroit Lions, Jacksonville Jaguars, and Houston Texans, though both the Browns (1950, 1954, 1955, 1964) and Lions (1935, 1952, 1953, 1957) had won NFL Championship Games prior to the creation of the Super Bowl in the 1966 season.
The Detroit Lions' 31-9 win over the Minnesota Vikings in the final game of the 2024 regular season had a playoff vibe to it. The spoils for the Lions (15-2) were the No. 1 seed in the NFC and ...
In a randomly selected simulated season by ESPN, the Detroit Lions finish with the best record in the NFL and win the Super Bowl for the first time.
The Lions’ collapse in the NFC Championship entered football lore as part of the Curse of Bobby Layne superstition used to explain the Lions' championship drought since 1957. [ 62 ] [ 63 ] In addition, the 17-point comeback tied for the largest comeback in NFC Championship history.
Detroit Lions head coach Dan Campbell speaks with the media, the day after losing the NFC championship game to the San Francisco 49ers, in a news conference in Allen Park on Monday, Jan. 29, 2024.
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 before they were bought by George A. Richards, a radio executive, and moved to Detroit and changed their name to the Lions in 1934 and won their first NFL Championship the ...