Detroit Lions are a professional American football team based in Detroit, Michigan. They belong to the Northern Department of the National Football Conference (NFC) is a National Football League (NFL), and play their home games Downtown Ford Field in Detroit.
Originally based in Portsmouth, Ohio, and called the Portsmouth Spartans, the team began to play in 1929 as a team of independent professionals , one of many such teams in Ohio and Scioto River valleys. For the season 1930, the Spartans formally joined the NFL as the second independent region folded as a result of the Great Depression. Despite the success in the NFL, they could not survive in Portsmouth, where the smallest city in NFL. The team was purchased and moved to Detroit for the season 1934.
The Lions won four NFL championships, the last time in 1957, the club second longest drought in the championship behind the NFL Arizona Cardinals. Lions are one of four NFL teams that are still qualify for the Super Bowl. The 2008 team became the only team in NFL history to lose all 16 regular season games since the NFL went to a 16-game schedule in 1978.
Logos And Uniforms :Apart from a brief exchange of brown established in 1948 by head coach Bo McMillin and (influenced by his years as coach of Indiana), Lions uniforms have remained basically the same since the team has made its creation in 1930. The design consists of silver helmets, pants, jerseys with silver and blue or white.
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There have been minor changes to a uniform design throughout the years, such as changing patterns silver band on the sleeves Jersey and change the colors of the jersey numbers. White trim was added to the logo in 1970. In 1998, the team wore blue pants with their white jerseys with gray socks but dropped the suit after the season. In 1999, "TV numbers on the sleeves moved to the shoulders.
The shade of blue that is used for uniforms and logos of the Lions is officially known as the "Honolulu blue," which is supposed to be inspired by the color of the waves on the coast of Hawaii. Darkness was chosen by Cy Huston, president of the Lions and the first Director General, and the election, said: "I looked like the blues I'm blue in the face," said Huston selection. "But anyway, this is the kind of blue, as I have said, that match the money."
In 1994, all NFL jerseys team survival, and the Lions responded to the shirts used during their 1935 championship season. Helmets and pants are solid silver, blue and silver jerseys Honolulu jersey numbers and had no "TV numbers" on the sleeves. The team went entirely blue socks with black shoes. The helmets do not have a logo that helmets were leather single at the time. The Lions also wore 50's style jerseys during their traditional Thanksgiving Day games from 2001 to 2004, when the NFL asked the team to wear jerseys survival on Thanksgiving Day.
In 2003, the team added black trim and a logo on their jerseys. Face masks have changed from blue to black helmet with a new color. In addition, an alternate black jersey field house that makes the main color (blue instead of Honolulu) was introduced in 2005.
The 2008 team fell to an alternate black jersey in favor of a uniform setback to commemorate the franchise 75 years. Stomach team uniform became a permanent alternate jersey in 2009, replacing the former black deputy, the Lions officially unveiled a new logo and uniform designs April 20, 2009. Helmet is now flowing mane and lion's teeth, and the character of the "Lions" is more modern.
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