Lions and Tigers and Playoffs? Oh, My...

[tinselwolverine]

Folks, as strange, magnificent and believeable as it may seem...

We Detroit sports fans are a single Lions victory (or a single loss each for the Seahawks and the Cardinals) from the first season ever...

...and I mean EVER!

in which both the Tigers and Lions got into the post season.


WOOOO Freakin' HOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

 

[tinselwolverine]

Ooops!!! My bad!!!

It happened in 1935...!!!

Didn't go back far enough.

And both won it all that year!

Still...was a little before my time...

So the first since then...

 

[turok]

Yeah, you stand corrected before you got jumped on for your OP...haha!!

 

[tinselwolverine]

Yeah, you stand corrected before you got jumped on for your OP...haha!!

Hey what can I say? My pencils have erasers....

 

[turok]

Closest after '35 was the '83 playoff Lions and the WS champion '84 Tigers, missed by just one year.

Fortunately for us (still) pro-football championship game-deprived fans(who are old enough to remember) here in SE MI, the USFL Michigan Panthers won their league's inaugural season championship in '83, with the likes of Bobby Hebert @ QB, John Corker LB, and Anthony Carter WR. Chris Godfrey OT was co-captains with my younger brother on their HS football team. He went on to play with the NFL NY Giants, winning a Superbowl ring in '85.

Unfortunately however, the Panthers team, as well as the league was very short-lived.

 

[wheels002]

I was a huge Panthers fan. Back then I was a bigger Panther fan than Lion fan. I still have some Panther memorabilia

 

[MAIZEandBLUE09]

I don't know, I'm still taking the position of I'll believe it when I see it. There is still plenty of opertunity for the Lions to mess this up.

 

[MalFunkShun]

Playoffs? Don't talk about playoffs... you kiddin' me? Playoffs?