On a January night in 2021, Detroit Lions fans had to deal with the reality that their franchise quarterback and perhaps the team's greatest quarterback since Bobby Layne was leaving.
In the days and months that followed, Lions fans had to be thinking the same thing at least one point between that moment and now...
"Watch Stafford take the Rams to a Super Bowl..."
And now, we're just sixty minutes away from seeing just that after Stafford and the Los Angeles Rams stunned the Super Bowl champion Tampa Bay Buccaneers 30-27 in Tampa Bay on Sunday afternoon.