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A Lot Has Happened Since the Detroit Lions Last Appeared in a Championship Game
- Updated: July 19, 2016
When you’ve never been to the Super Bowl and you’ve posted a winning record just 13 times in the 50-year-old Super Bowl era, you’re forced to set the bar quite low in attempts to commemorate team accomplishments.
Thus, this year, the long-suffering Detroit Lions will hold a celebration to mark the 25th anniversary of the only time in modern NFL history the team made a championship game.
The 1991 Lions won a team-record 12 regular-season games before winning a single playoff affair en route to a 41-10 NFC Championship Game loss to the Washington Redskins. The 38-6 divisional-round victory over the Dallas Cowboys remains the franchise’s only postseason win since 1957.
According to Dave Birkett of the Detroit Free Press, members of that ’91 squad will be honored when Detroit hosts the Los Angeles Rams on Oct. 16. That’s in spite of the fact tickets for the following week’s game against the Redskins state that the celebration will take place that day, because the team was forced to change the day for scheduling purposes after tickets had already been printed.
Oh, Lions.
The whole thing is just adorable, and it also gives us a chance to reflect on what has happened throughout the league, the country and the world since those poor Lions last experienced playoff success.
27: That’s the total number of NFL teams that have appeared in at least one conference championship game since the Lions lost to the Redskins in 1991. The only other teams that haven’t? Houston, Cleveland, Cincinnati and—somewhat ironically—Washington.
30: That’s the total number of NFL teams that have won at least …
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