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The franchise began in 1930 as the Portsmouth Spartans in Ohio before relocating to Detroit in 1934, taking the Lions name to sit alongside the baseball Tigers as another powerful cat, borrowing some of that team's championship shine. Detroit won four NFL titles in the pre-Super Bowl era, the last in 1957, but has never reached a Super Bowl since the game began in 1967 — the longest such drought among the NFL's original franchises.

Running back Barry Sanders, whose decade of highlight-reel runs in the 1990s came without a deep playoff run to match, is the player most associated with the modern Lions. The team has hosted a Thanksgiving Day game every year since 1934.