For months now, we’ve been hearing that these aren’t the Same Old Lions.
There’s a new culture—a gritty, hardworking group of guys led by a new regime made up of winners. These are not the Same Old Lions. But have any of us stopped to consider, what if that’s actually true?
Tim Alberta considers just that. In a longform feature for The Atlantic, he takes readers through his lifelong journey as a Detroit Lions fan. He begins with a memory from his childhood at the very first game he ever went to — the first round of the 1993 NFC playoffs against the Green Bay Packers.