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What this year's NFL draft taught Detroit about being host city

Lions DL Da'Shawn Hand has been cooking since he was a youngster, and made and sold burgers at Alabama for a bit. Filmed at Ford Field, May 15, 2019. Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press

The Detroit Lions are gearing up for another bid to host the NFL draft, and team president Rod Wood said last month’s draft in Nashville taught him one important lesson about the event.

“Obviously, they have a special area there with Broadway and the bars and the restaurants,” Wood said last week at the team’s annual Taste of the Lions event at Ford Field.