Detroit Lions - This Detroit (Michigan) based American football team is playing from the 1930. The team is a member of the NFC (National Football Conference) North Division on the NFL (National Football League). They do play their home games at Ford Field, Detroit downtown. In the beginning, team was known as the Portsmouth Spartans since they began playing in Portsmouth, Ohio in 1929. They begun as an independent professional American football team, one among such teams in the Scioto and Ohio river valleys. Later, in 1930 they joined in the NFL and so the official name got changed.

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Detroit Lions won 4 NFL championships, the final one in 1957. This is the second team that holds the longest NFL championship drought, standing next to Arizona Cardinals. The team is yet to qualify for Super Bowl. Moreover, they qualified only 9 times for the playoffs after 1957.

The 2008 Detroit Lions season is going to be the 75th season in Detroit and 79th for the Lions in the NFL. There are high hopes for the Lions entering the season, to improve their level better. The following 17 weeks of games will be heart throbbing for the team members as well as for the Head coach, Rod Marinelli (2006 to present). The team was served by 24 Head coaches so far, starting from Hal Griffin (1930).

The official radio station are WXYT-AM 1270 AM and WXYT-FM 97.1 FM. If a conflict with Detroit Red Wings (hockey) or Detroit Tigers (baseball), the FM station serves as the chief station for the Detroit Lions.

Regardless, the fans are expecting a victory after 50 years of losing ceremony and are thus getting hold of Detroit Lions Tickets to the matches well in advance!