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This also remains as the Lions' fourth and most recent league title and most recent championship appearance (including the Super Bowl) as of 2024, starting a sixty-seven year championship drought for the Lions, which is currently the fourth-longest championship drought in the four major North American sports leagues. [13]
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.
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 ...
More on the 1957 Detroit Lions: Never mind that '57 championship, this is the Lions' biggest game ever. The Lions’ 1953 team was the last NFL champion without a Black player. By then, Detroit ...
"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 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]
Former Detroit Lions wide receiver Steve Junker, who caught two touchdowns in the 1957 NFL championship, died on Dec. 13 at 88.