Game 17: Vikings @ Lions *Sunday Night* Thread

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The Lions did not allow a TD in four games this season, the most in the NFL. This ties for the 4th-most game without a TD allowed in franchise history and is Detroit's most in a season since 1983.
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Detroit Lions OL Penei Sewell named 2024 Polynesian Pro Football Player of the Year, presented by Hawaiian Air.
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PFHOF

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Lions RB Jahmyr Gibbs has been named the NFC Offensive Player of the Month for December/January. He is the first Lions RB to win a POTM award since Barry Sanders in December of 1997 and joins Sanders as the only Lions RBs to ever win the award.
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The Lions have won four Player of the Month Awards in a season for the first time in team history, with four different players collecting the honors:
Sept. - DPOTM: Aidan Hutchinson.

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Oct. - OPOTM: Jared Goff

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Nov. - STPOTM: Jake Bates

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Dec./Jan - OPOTM: Jahmyr Gibbs

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Shout out to Ben Johnson. Single Season Franchise Record for Total Net Yards.

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[kalinecountry]

Extended cut MIN vs DET postgame locker room celebration.

 

[kalinecountry]

Detroit Lions are America's Team once again for NFL playoffs 2025

According to a recent study, the Detroit Lions are far and away America's favorite team for the postseason.

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Detroit Lions are America's Team once again for NFL playoffs 2025.
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[kalinecountry]

Check out some of this season's cellebrations as they get more and more lit!


The Lions have four First-Team AP All-Pro selections this season:
RT Penei Sewell
WR Amon-Ra St. Brown
S Kerby Joseph
P Jack Fox
This ties the 1991 Lions for the most First-Team All-Pro selections in a season since the 1970 AFL/NFL merger.

The only tackles to earn multiple First-Team AP All-Pro selections in Lions history:
1. Penei Sewell (2023-24)
2. Lou Creekmur (1954, 1956-57)
3. George Christensen (1931, 1934)

The only WRs to earn multiple First-Team AP All-Pro selections in Lions history:
1. Amon-Ra St. Brown (2023-24)
2. Calvin Johnson Jr. (2011-13)
3. Herman Moore (1995-97)

Lions P Jack Fox joins Jim Arnold (1987) as the only punters in franchise history to earn a First-Team AP All-Pro selection.

Kerby Joseph is the first Lions safety to earn a First-Team AP All-Pro selection since Yale Lary in 1962.

Lions safety Kerby Joseph reacts to Rob Maaddi telling him he made The Associated Press 2024 NFL All-Pro Team.