Hotels for Tennessee Titans at Detroit Lions

An early Sunday kick-off indoors, where the roof traps a noise the Lions crowd has rediscovered how to make. A younger, louder home support than the club had for most of the last twenty years, and one that arrives expecting to win now. Expect a fast surface, an early lead mattering, and a building that does not quieten.

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.

The climate-controlled home of the Detroit Lions, Ford Field sits in the heart of downtown Detroit beside Little Caesars Arena, surrounded by a city in confident revival. Greektown, Midtown's bars and Eastern Market are all within walking distance. The QLine streetcar and DDOT buses serve the area, and parking is plentiful nearby.

Booking a room downtown puts Detroit's remarkable restaurant scene, art deco architecture and renewed nightlife right on your doorstep before and after the game.