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The Detroit Lions are an American football team based in Detroit, Michigan. Originally based in Portsmouth, Ohio and called the Portsmouth Spartans, the team began play in 1929 as an independent professional team [1], one of many such teams in the Ohio and Scioto River valleys. For the 1930 season, the Spartans formally joined the National Football League (NFL) as the other area independents folded because of the Great Depression. Despite success within the NFL, they could not survive in Portsmouth, then the NFL's smallest city. The team was purchased and moved to Detroit for the 1934 season.

The Lions have won four pre-Super Bowl NFL Championships, the last in 1957, but have yet to qualify for the modern day Super Bowl.



Lions News
07/28/2010 08:00 PM
Lions Team Report (Yahoo! Sports)

Zack Follett sure talks a good game. He started to play a pretty good one late in his rookie season, too. Follett, a seventh-round pick out of California who began the season on the practice squad, emerged as a playmaker on special teams and also got a chance to excel in some defensive packages at the end of the regular season.

"He took steps all along the way," coach Jim Schwartz said.

Now it's time for a giant step, though, provided Follett's ready. By trading away a four-year starter in Ernie Sims, the Lions created a void at weakside linebacker. Entering training camp, that No. 1 job appears to be Follett's to lose.

"The door's definitely open for me, compared to what it was last year," said Follett, who would join another second-year pro, DeAndre Levy, and veteran...

07/28/2010 06:30 PM
Steelers' Colbert signs 5-year contract extension (The Canadian Press)
PITTSBURGH, Pa. - Steelers director of football operations Kevin Colbert signed a five-year contract extension Wednesday, less than a week after the team re-signed coach Mike Tomlin through the 2012 season.

07/26/2010 07:10 PM
Cowboys' Williams says Dez dustup 'not a big deal' (The Canadian Press)

Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Roy E. Williams, carrying his shoulder pads, returns a piece of memorabilia to a fan after autographing it following practice at the NFL football team's training camp, Monday, July 26, 2010, in San Antonio. Williams can't even get his 4-year-old son to carry his shoulder pads. Williams joked after Monday's practice that he was mad at him too, a day after rookie receiver Dez Bryant(notes) refused to carry Williams' pads.

SAN ANTONIO - Dallas Cowboys receiver Roy Williams can't even get his four-year-old son to carry his shoulder pads.

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