Detroit Lions | |||||
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Current season | |||||
Established July 12, 1930[1] First season: 1930 Play in Ford Field Detroit, Michigan Headquartered in Allen Park, Michigan | |||||
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National Football League (1930–present)
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Current uniform | |||||
Team colors | Honolulu blue, silver, dark steel grey, white[2][3][4] | ||||
Fight song | Gridiron Heroes | ||||
Mascot | Roary the Lion | ||||
Personnel | |||||
Owner(s) | Sheila Ford Hamp[5] | ||||
Chairman | Sheila Ford Hamp | ||||
President | Rod Wood | ||||
General manager | Brad Holmes | ||||
Head coach | Dan Campbell | ||||
Team history | |||||
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Championships | |||||
League championships (4)
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Conference championships (4) | |||||
Division championships (5) | |||||
Playoff appearances (19) | |||||
Home fields | |||||
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The Detroit Lions are a professional American football team based in Detroit. The Lions compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the National Football Conference (NFC) North Division. The team plays their home games at Ford Field in Downtown Detroit.
The franchise was founded in Portsmouth, Ohio as the Portsmouth Spartans and joined the NFL on July 12, 1930.[1] Amid financial struggles, the franchise was relocated to Detroit in 1934 and renamed the Lions in reference to the city's Major League Baseball (MLB) franchise, the Detroit Tigers.[6][7]
The Lions won four NFL Championship Games between 1935 and 1957. Following the 1957 championship, the franchise did not win a playoff game until the 1991 season and did not win another until the 2023 season. They are the only franchise operational for the entirety of the Super Bowl era to not appear in the Super Bowl.[8][9][10]
On Feb. 1, 2017 the Lions once again updated the team's logo and typeface as part of a rebranding initiative that also included four new uniform options. The updated logo and typeface includes the removal of black from the brand identity, emphasizing the team's class color combination of Honolulu blue and silver that has been synonymous with the Detroit Lions since 1934.