When Lomas Brown first discussed joining the Detroit Lions radio broadcast earlier this spring, it wasn’t as a replacement for long-time color analyst Jim Brandstatter.
“We had been talking for the past several months, but the conversation had kind of been around maybe doing a three-man booth, and everything like that, and kind of easing me in,” Brown, a former Lions offensive lineman, told the Free Press. “They knew Jim was kind of thinking about in a couple of years of leaving, so they were thinking about it that way. But as we continued talks and as it got nearer and nearer, then they started talking about me coming on and replacing Jim.