ALLEN PARK -- The Lions are closer than anybody in Detroit to winning a championship.
Don't adjust your TV sets. That's right, the Lions.
"I just think the Lions at some point are going to make it happen," said Cris Collinsworth, who played in two Super Bowls and covered countless others. "They have too much talent there to not."
Collinsworth made the comment while in Minneapolis for the last Super Bowl, and he did it with a smile. Because Collinsworth, like everybody else, knows the history here. The long, sordid, improbably laughable history. Detroit is the only team to miss every Super Bowl, and that might not even be the most preposterous thing about it.