Detroit Lions NFL playoff history is a cornucopia of sadness. The Lions' last playoff win of course came in the 1991 season — read our oral history of that epic win — in a shellacking of the Dallas ...

The Commanders and Lions have met three times in the NFC Playoffs during the NFL's Super Bowl era. First, isn't it odd that in 58 NFL seasons since 1966, Washington and Detroit have only met in the ...

DETROIT — Even in a hospital bed, with a horrific spinal-cord injury that would confine him to a wheelchair for the rest of his life, Mike Utley gave his Detroit Lions teammate a helping hand. It was ...

They came into the great canyon of a stadium as one of the most potent offenses in professional football, a blur of receivers scattering across the field in a mass of organized cohesion. In the few ...