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Detroit Lions Archive
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Meeting Joe Namath when the Jets came to Detroit for Thanksgiving
Posted on November 25, 2011 | No CommentsOne of the real treats of the 1970 AFL and NFL merger was that for three consecutive Thanksgiving Day games at Tiger Stadium in the early 70’s, Lion fans were... -
Thanksgiving Past; The Lions last hurrah
Posted on November 24, 2011 | No CommentsThe cliché about history repeating itself might well be applied to the young Lions showdown Thursday against the undefeated and reportedly glory-bound Green Bay Packers. Though there are circumstances that... -
20 years ago: When the Lions kept winning for Mike Utley
Posted on November 12, 2011 | 2 CommentsIt’s hard to believe it’s been 20 years since the “thumbs up”. But it has been. Twenty years ago, back in 1991, in Week #12 of the NFL season, the Detroit... -
Remembering my first favorite Detroit Lion
Posted on October 31, 2011 | 2 CommentsIf the circumstances of your birth meant that you became a Detroit Lions fan in the 1970s, it wasn’t always pretty. But as a young kid growing up in Michigan... -
An eyewitness account of the only death to occur on an NFL gridiron
Posted on October 26, 2011 | No CommentsI’ve never been one for bobblehead toys. I have just one, a Detroit Lions nodder that dates back to the Nixon administration. It’s stashed away in some box in the... -
40 years ago Lions receiver Chuck Hughes died on Tiger Stadium gridiron
Posted on October 24, 2011 | 3 CommentsIt remains the greatest tragedy to have ever occurred during an NFL game. Forty years ago today on October 24, 1971, at Tiger Stadium Detroit Lion wide receiver Chuck Hughes... -
Two of the Lions greatest comebacks came in last championship season of 1957
Posted on October 10, 2011 | No CommentsWith the Detroit Lions’ dramatic come from behind victories in the last two weeks I thought about the two unbelievable come back wins in 1957, the last time the team... -
Farewell Peter Gent: Wide Receiver, Author, Friend
Posted on October 6, 2011 | No CommentsI sat down Sunday night to write a commentary on the Lions big comeback against Dallas, but got sidetracked by a short headline on the America Online news site. “Former... -
Made in Detroit: Vince Banonis of the Lions
Posted on September 14, 2011 | 4 CommentsA blown knee, some broken bones, a few kicks in the tender regions. I always thought of Vince Banonis as the slightly creaking ghost of football past. The good-humored gridiron... -
A Detroit Tigers-Red Wings-Lions Fan’s Rite of Passage in the Fall of 1954
Posted on August 27, 2011 | No CommentsWith the onset of the football season comes the opportunity to recall another refreshing and blessed autumn, the magical season long ago — too long ago — when I began...
