Today is 25th anniversary of Lions' last playoff win
25 years ago today the Lions demolished the Cowboys 38-6 in the Silverdome.
Barry Sanders was largely quiet (11 carries for 22 yds, apart from a 47 yd run late), as the Cowboys schemed to stop him. Erik Kramer resonded with 341 passing yds, 3 TD, 0 INT.
Prior to this game it had been 34 years since the Lions' last playoff win.
1957, 1991...when will the Lions' next playoff win come?
Anyway...happy silver anniversary, Lions fans!!
January 5th, 2017 at 10:58 AM ^
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January 5th, 2017 at 11:05 AM ^
But they have some NFL titles.
January 5th, 2017 at 11:09 AM ^
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January 5th, 2017 at 12:47 PM ^
So, why'd you ask?
January 5th, 2017 at 11:09 AM ^
By "young" I mean under 60 years old.
Lions are 7-11 all-time in the playoffs, with 4 league titles ('35, '52, '53, '57)
You could say that the '92 game is their only playoff W in the Super Bowl era.
January 5th, 2017 at 12:12 PM ^
Also last game was the 100th loss to GB in Lions history......ugh
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January 5th, 2017 at 11:00 AM ^
"The Detroit Lions: A Case Study in Institutional Impotence."
January 5th, 2017 at 11:09 AM ^
I took my dad to that game. It was the last Lions game we ever went to together. And it was awesome! The atmosphere at the Silverdome was unlike anything I had ever experienced as a Lions fan.
BTW - that 25 years went by quick!!
January 5th, 2017 at 11:35 AM ^
January 5th, 2017 at 4:33 PM ^
Drunk dudes didn't feel like waiting for the urinals so they just pissed in the sinks. I never looked at Lions fandom the same again.
January 5th, 2017 at 4:31 PM ^
Thought the Lions were really going to take off after that season. Then they let Eric Kramer get away from them, and started their next run down the hill... Sigh...
January 5th, 2017 at 9:24 PM ^
Don't forget that their almost pro bowl guard Eric Andolsek was hit by a runaway truck while working in his front yard that summer (June 1992) and was killed. Also, they had lost their other almost pro bowl guard Mike Utley to paralyzation during the season. Hard to build your team when you lose two cornerstone pieces to freak accidents. Lions Luck!!!
January 5th, 2017 at 11:07 AM ^
I can't wait for the home opener next year to watch them stitch 2016 into the banner.
January 5th, 2017 at 11:13 AM ^
Wow. Then they've hung 7 of them since their last playoff W.
Why would they do that? Seems like they are reminding their fan base that they are 0-7 in the playoffs since '92
January 5th, 2017 at 11:50 AM ^
Maybe this is par for the course??
January 5th, 2017 at 12:04 PM ^
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January 5th, 2017 at 12:08 PM ^
I thought you were being sarcastic. That's just sad.
January 5th, 2017 at 11:10 AM ^
Perhaps the two are correlated.
January 5th, 2017 at 11:14 AM ^
No. They hosted Green Bay in the 1993 playoffs. And lost. AFAIK that was the last time they hosted a playoff game.
January 5th, 2017 at 11:41 AM ^
Last week's game counted as a playoff game because it had playoff implications.
January 5th, 2017 at 4:40 PM ^
Sterling Sharpe.
Brett Favre and Aaron Rodgers have basically built a wall between the Lions and ever winning a playoff game. The Pack's consistency at QB has led to 1-2 critical Lions losses in years when they're halfway competitive, pushing or pulling them down into the wild card slot and preventing a home playoff game. The only year post-'91 that the Lions actually managed to win the division, the Packers just went ahead and beat them themselves at the Silverdome.
January 5th, 2017 at 9:36 PM ^
A last minute loss to a Farve-Sharp bomb. I went to the game a week before where the Lions handily beat Green Bay to win the division.
January 5th, 2017 at 11:22 AM ^
My stepmom got tickets for my dad and I for Christmas, upper deck near the 50 yard line. I was only 8 but can still remember Barry running into a pile of Cowboys and then magically squirting out the other side on his way to a TD.
Greatest running back ever.
Also, Kramer was money in that game. He and Willie Green (remember him?) put on a show.
January 5th, 2017 at 11:37 AM ^
January 5th, 2017 at 11:48 AM ^
1991 season, so January 1992
January 5th, 2017 at 12:09 PM ^
January 5th, 2017 at 11:49 AM ^
but the game was played on January 5, 1992
January 5th, 2017 at 11:45 AM ^
January 5th, 2017 at 11:46 AM ^
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January 5th, 2017 at 12:13 PM ^
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January 5th, 2017 at 11:55 AM ^
January 5th, 2017 at 12:14 PM ^
They were destroyed by the Redskins twice that year. That was a great Washington team.
January 5th, 2017 at 11:57 AM ^
I was actually at that game too, and yes, we left the Silverdome that day thinking the future might finally be bright for the Detroit Lions.
Then, the future happened that very next week, of course, and expectations were thusly altered for the future after that game.
January 5th, 2017 at 11:58 AM ^
My dad got me two tickets for Christmas. We kicked the crap out of Dallas only to turn around, and, in grand Detroit Lions fashion, get the crapped kicked out of us by Washington.
January 5th, 2017 at 1:17 PM ^
the following season, 37-3
January 5th, 2017 at 12:23 PM ^
355 days since Brady and Belichick won a playoff game and 9 days before they win their next one. 1 year and 11 months since they won a Super Bowl and 1 month before they hoist #5.
January 5th, 2017 at 3:01 PM ^
New England has missed the playoffs as many times as Detroit has made them since Brady joined them... And one of the years, he was hurt for the season in Game 1.
January 5th, 2017 at 3:24 PM ^
Went 11-5, tied with Miami and lost division and wild card on tie breakers. Wonder what finger Brady gets fitted for if they win. Thumb? Other middle finger to flash Goodell, ESPN, Peter King and the other 31 league owners?
January 5th, 2017 at 3:51 PM ^
Gives a new meaning to the title Goldfinger! :)
January 5th, 2017 at 12:38 PM ^
January 5th, 2017 at 12:40 PM ^
I think the 25th Anniversary calls for a 25th Anniversary banner to be hung up
January 5th, 2017 at 12:59 PM ^
January 5th, 2017 at 1:00 PM ^
Say what you will about them but those teams were FUN to watch. The "run and shoot" opened up huge lanes for Barry to run through and if Andre Ware had turned out to be the QB everybody thought (hoped) he'd become it would've been interesting to see how those teams would've fared. As it was the instablility at QB - Peete, Kramer & Ware - kept them from ever really unleashing the full capabilities of that team IMO.
Run n Shoot not terribly different schematically to spread to pass offenses today with multiple route options based on defensive alignments.
January 5th, 2017 at 1:15 PM ^
Lions offense was #1 in total yds, passing yds, pts, passing TD's
They had a 1,500 yd rusher (Barry) and two 1,000 yd WR's (Moore, 1,686 and Perriman, 1,488)
Sadly their defense was not on the same level and they were annihilated in shocking fashion by the Eagles in the playoffs
January 5th, 2017 at 1:43 PM ^
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January 5th, 2017 at 2:26 PM ^
The Lions also lost G Mike Utley to a broken neck during the season. The 90s might have turned out differently if the Lions didn't have to replace two young OL starters.
January 5th, 2017 at 9:41 PM ^
No it wouldn't.
The coaching staff is still SOL.
January 5th, 2017 at 2:02 PM ^
who was alive when the Lions last won an NFL championship, and a number of players from that '57 team were still on the Lions when I was old enough to start following football in the early '60s.
For those of us alive then, November 22, 1963 was one of the most traumatic days in our lives, and the shock of JFK's assassination is permanently engraved in our memories.
For Lions fans, November 22, 1963 was a disaster for another reason: it was the day William Clay Ford Sr. purchased a controlling interest in the Detroit Lions from Edwin Anderson and Lyle Fife for $4.5 million.