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The '''Detroit Lions''' are a [[National Football League]] franchise team based in [[Detroit]], [[Michigan]]. They are part of the [[National Football Conference]] (NFC) and play in the NFC North Division.

The '''Detroit Lions''' are a [[National Football League]] ([[NFL]]) team based in [[Detroit]], [[Michigan]]. They are members of the [[National Football Conference]] (AFC) North Division.

In 2008, the team became the first ever to go 0–16 and the second team in the AFL-NFL merger era to go winless in a season (the [[Tampa Bay Buccaneers]] were the first to not win a game in a season, going 0–14 in their inaugural 1976 season when there were only 14 games in a season).

==History and League Success==

The team entered the NFL in 1928 as the Portsmouth (Ohio) Spartans, before relocating to Detroit in 1934.

The Detroit Lions have won four NFL championships, all prior to the advent of the [[Super Bowl]]; they are one of four franchises never to have appeared in the Super Bowl (and one of two – along with the Cleveland Browns – to have been in existence prior to the Super Bowl, yet never participated in it).  

In 2008, the Lions became the first ever to go 0–16 and the second team in the post-merger era to go winless in a season (the [[Tampa Bay Buccaneers]] were the first to not win a game in a season, going 0–14 in their inaugural 1976 season prior to the league expanding the number of games in a season).

==See also==

 

==NFC North Rivals==

*[[Chicago Bears]]

*[[Chicago Bears]]

*[[Green Bay Packers]]

*[[Green Bay Packers]]

*[[Minnesota Vikings]]

*[[Minnesota Vikings]]

== External links ==

== External links ==