When Bob Quinn sat down for his second interview before becoming Detroit Lions general manager in 2016, Sheila Ford Hamp was there.
And when the organization brought a few reporters together last December to explain its decision to retain Quinn and head coach Matt Patricia for the 2020 season, Ford Hamp was the most authoritative voice in the room.
So now that the second of Martha Firestone Ford’s four children has officially taken over as team owner and chairman, a move that had been in the works for years and had nothing to do with the 94-year-old Firestone Ford’s health, don’t expect much to change.