The Detroit Lions are a professional American football team based in Detroit, Michigan. They are members of the North Division of the National Football Conference (NFC) in the National Football League (NFL), and play their home games at Ford Field in Downtown Detroit.
Originally based in Portsmouth, Ohio and called the Portsmouth Spartans, the team began play in 1929 as an independent professional team,[1] one of many such teams in the Ohio and Scioto River valleys. For the 1930 season, the Spartans formally joined the NFL as the other area independents folded because of the Great Depression.
Despite success within the NFL, they could not survive in Portsmouth,
then the NFL's smallest city. The team was purchased and moved to
Detroit for the 1934 season.
The Lions have won four NFL Championships,
tied for 9th overall in total championships amongst all 32 NFL
franchises; however, their last was in 1957, which gives the club the
second-longest NFL championship drought behind the Arizona Cardinals. They are one of four current teams, and the only NFC team, to have not yet played in the Super Bowl.
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