The Lions built a Super Bowl contender. Now it’s all falling apart.
The Detroit Lions are the only NFL team never to have made a Super Bowl, a 58-year streak that finally could come to an end this season.
Behind an uber-physical offensive line, an ultra-aggressive coach, and defenses and offenses full of some of the league’s most promising players, the Lions already clinched a playoff spot by alternately crushing opponents and being more creative.
Yet less than a month before the playoffs begin, their Super Bowl ambitions are in danger of being derailed…