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Mitch Albom: Detroit Lions fans fighting against Super Bowl envy

Former Detroit Lions QB and ESPN analyst Dan Orlovsky sits down with Dave Birkett on radio row for Super Bowl 54 on Jan. 30, 2020, in Miami. Detroit Free Press

Envy.

Although it’s not the first emotion you’d associate with the Super Bowl, it will be there tonight in the minds of many football fans around the country — fans of teams who perennially do NOT make the big game.

“How come Kansas City gets there after 50 years and we don’t?” Lions fans lament. “How does San Francisco, who was 4-12 last year, make the Super Bowl one year later?