The Detroit Lions: Decades of New Beginnings
Hall, Thomas E. The Detroit Lions won their fourth and final NFL Championship in 1957. Since then, they've been a second-tier team that won 42 percent of their games, earned just three division titles, posted a 1-12 playoff record, and suffered through a "perfect" 0-16 season. A major problem has been mismanagement. William Clay Ford purchased the team in 1963 and during fifty years of control oversaw one rebuilding program after another involving over twenty...