There hasn’t been a less popular job in the past few decades than Detroit Lions owner. The Ford family has faced a lot of understandable criticism for their failure to turn the Lions into a winner for the better part of a century. This team has won just a single playoff game in the Super Bowl era, and their last championship came in 1957. To say the Ford family and Detroit football fans have a tenuous relationship is a bit of an understatement.
However, the era of Lions football under Sheila Hamp—daughter of the previous owners Martha Firestone Ford and William Clay Ford Sr.