The Detroit Lions took down playoff banners during a $100 million renovation of Ford Field and have decided not to put them back up, the Detroit Free Press reported Wednesday.
The Lions, who have won one playoff game and three division titles since 1957 when the franchise won its last NFL championship, decided the banners had become more a reminder of the team's history of incompetence rather than excellence, according to team president Tom Wood.
The team had banners for 2011 and 2014 when they neither won the game nor the division title. Another banner could have been hung after the Lions made the playoffs after last season and lost to Seattle in the first round.