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What was the worst season of the Detroit Lions? ›

The Detroit Lions had their worst record in a season in 2008 and in 1942, with a record of 0-16.

The Detroit Lions professional football team formed in 1929 as the Portsmouth Spartans of Portsmouth, Ohio. The team moved to Detroit in 1934 and were rebranded as the Detroit Lions.

DETROIT -- There are two numbers Detroiters will never forget: 0 and 16. They represent the Detroit Lions' 2008 season -- the one in which they became the first team in NFL history to play a 16-game schedule without winning a game (though the 2017 Cleveland Browns eventually joined them).

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.

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George Richards — who owned the Detroit radio station WJR and bought the team in the spring of 1934 — chose that name Honolulu blue because it reminded him of the ocean water he saw on a trip to Hawai'i, according to an old Lions media guide. So began a new — and blue — era for the Detroit Lions.

The Detroit franchise started as the Portsmouth (Ohio) Spartans in 1930. Detroit radio executive George A. Richards purchased the Spartans in 1934 and moved them to Detroit where they were renamed the Lions.

Triplett was a pioneer, the first drafted black player to play in the NFL. His rookie year with the Detroit Lions was 1949. Wally Triplett is a living, breathing piece of American history.

Who is the Detroit Lions all time leading scorer? ›

Barry Sanders is the career touchdown leader of the Detroit Lions having scored 109 touchdowns throughout his career.

It was their third year under head coach Rod Marinelli. In 2008, the Lions had one of the worst seasons of any major American pro sports team. They lost all 16 of their regular season games.

The Lions faced the Browns in the 1953 NFL Championship Game, in which Layne found Jim Doran for a 33-yard game-winning touchdown in the final minutes to win 17–16. In 1954, the Lions would finish with a 9–2–1 record.

John Kitna

The Lions opened the 2008 — 09 NFL Season with an almost 36-year-old QB Jon Kitna who had thrown 42 interceptions since the 2006 season.

Four months before Fontes and the Detroit Lions were battered in the 1991 NFC title game by Washington, 41-10, they'd been hammered by the same team in the season opener, 45-0. But so many things had gone right for Detroit between those two games. They had hope.