Today is 25th anniversary of Lions' last playoff win

Submitted by harmon40 on

25 years ago today the Lions demolished the Cowboys 38-6 in the Silverdome.

Barry Sanders was largely quiet (11 carries for 22 yds, apart from a 47 yd run late), as the Cowboys schemed to stop him. Erik Kramer resonded with 341 passing yds, 3 TD, 0 INT.

Prior to this game it had been 34 years since the Lions' last playoff win.

1957, 1991...when will the Lions' next playoff win come?

Anyway...happy silver anniversary, Lions fans!!

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UESWolverine

January 5th, 2017 at 11:09 AM ^

I took my dad to that game. It was the last Lions game we ever went to together. And it was awesome! The atmosphere at the Silverdome was unlike anything I had ever experienced as a Lions fan. 

BTW - that 25 years went by quick!!

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goblueinMO

January 5th, 2017 at 9:24 PM ^

Don't forget that their almost pro bowl guard Eric Andolsek was hit by a runaway truck while working in his front yard that summer (June 1992) and was killed.  Also, they had lost their other almost pro bowl guard Mike Utley to paralyzation during the season.  Hard to build your team when you lose two cornerstone pieces to freak accidents.  Lions Luck!!!

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Moonlight Graham

January 5th, 2017 at 4:40 PM ^

Sterling Sharpe. 

Brett Favre and Aaron Rodgers have basically built a wall between the Lions and ever winning a playoff game. The Pack's consistency at QB has led to 1-2 critical Lions losses in years when they're halfway competitive, pushing or pulling them down into the wild card slot and preventing a home playoff game. The only year post-'91 that the Lions actually managed to win the division, the Packers just went ahead and beat them themselves at the Silverdome. 

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MH20

January 5th, 2017 at 11:22 AM ^

My stepmom got tickets for my dad and I for Christmas, upper deck near the 50 yard line.  I was only 8 but can still remember Barry running into a pile of Cowboys and then magically squirting out the other side on his way to a TD.

Greatest running back ever.

Also, Kramer was money in that game.  He and Willie Green (remember him?) put on a show.

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Mr. Elbel

January 5th, 2017 at 11:37 AM ^

wouldn't that be 26th anniversary? it's 2017 now. either it was in January of 92 or its the 26th anniversary. this is important as I was born in November 1991 and need to know if they've won in my lifetime.

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Hotel Putingrad

January 5th, 2017 at 11:45 AM ^

my older brother's apartment in St Louis. He was a senior at SLU. We had chicken wings during the game. I thought the future was bright. Hoping for a miracle Saturday night.

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Baba Booey

January 5th, 2017 at 11:55 AM ^

So that means next week will be the 25th anniversary of the beatdown the Lions got in the nfc title game. I actually thought they had a chance that day. Silly me.

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LSAClassOf2000

January 5th, 2017 at 11:57 AM ^

I was actually at that game too, and yes, we left the Silverdome that day thinking the future might finally be bright for the Detroit Lions. 

Then, the future happened that very next week, of course, and expectations were thusly altered for the future after that game. 

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ssbeaulieu70

January 5th, 2017 at 11:58 AM ^

My dad got me two tickets for Christmas.  We kicked the crap out of Dallas only to turn around, and, in grand Detroit Lions fashion, get the crapped kicked out of us by Washington.

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blueinbeantown

January 5th, 2017 at 12:23 PM ^

355 days since Brady and Belichick won a playoff game and 9 days before they win their next one. 1 year and 11 months since they won a Super Bowl and 1 month before they hoist #5.

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readyourguard

January 5th, 2017 at 12:38 PM ^

I was there. My buddy and I didn't even have enough cash for two tickets but we gave the ticket agent all the money we had in our wallets and the dude let us in. We didn't have a penny left for food. The guy sitting next to us cane back from the concession stand with his hands full of food. We sat there and basically watched him eat as we drooled on ourselves. But hey, we were there.

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mGrowOld

January 5th, 2017 at 1:00 PM ^

Say what you will about them but those teams were FUN to watch.  The "run and shoot" opened up huge lanes for Barry to run through and if Andre Ware had turned out to be the QB everybody thought (hoped) he'd become it would've been interesting to see how those teams would've fared.  As it was the instablility at QB - Peete, Kramer & Ware - kept them from ever really unleashing the full capabilities of that team IMO.

Run n Shoot not terribly different schematically to spread to pass offenses today with multiple route options based on defensive alignments.  

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harmon40

January 5th, 2017 at 1:15 PM ^

Lions offense was #1 in total yds, passing yds, pts, passing TD's

They had a 1,500 yd rusher (Barry) and two 1,000 yd WR's (Moore, 1,686 and Perriman, 1,488)

Sadly their defense was not on the same level and they were annihilated in shocking fashion by the Eagles in the playoffs

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Cromulent

January 5th, 2017 at 1:43 PM ^

Eventually the R&S fell out of favor, for numerous reasons. The pass pro schemes were too simple; quarter rolls with the RB protecting the backside will not work against every blitz. Also had major issues with the new zone blitz schemes. Did and still do love the way a "pure" Shoot puts RB close behind the QB.

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Cromulent

January 5th, 2017 at 1:35 PM ^

We were the 2nd best team in the league that season. Skins beat Atlanta, us and Buffalo to win it all. The Falcons were toast by end of 1st Q. Bills were put away by mid 2nd. The Lions lasted until mid-late 3rd. During the offseason G Eric Andolsek was run over by an 18-wheeler while mowing his front lawn. And the moment was over.

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Don

January 5th, 2017 at 2:02 PM ^

who was alive when the Lions last won an NFL championship, and a number of players from that '57 team were still on the Lions when I was old enough to start following football in the early '60s.

For those of us alive then, November 22, 1963 was one of the most traumatic days in our lives, and the shock of JFK's assassination is permanently engraved in our memories.

For Lions fans, November 22, 1963 was a disaster for another reason: it was the day William Clay Ford Sr. purchased a controlling interest in the Detroit Lions from Edwin Anderson and Lyle Fife for $4.5 million.

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