For my first post about the Detroit Lions, I can’t help but think about the impending Super Bowl. The Lions are one of four teams to never reach the Super Bowl. The other three teams are the Cleveland Browns, Jacksonville Jaguars, and Houston Texans.
At the other end of the spectrum, we have the current perennial franchise over the past seventeen years: The New England Patriots. Super Bowl LII will be their eighth appearance in those seventeen years. Their record is 5-2 with both losses coming to the New York Giants in 2007 and 2011. They also have two previous appearances, both of which they lost to the 1985 Chicago Bears and 1996 Green Bay Packers.