For years the Detroit Lions have been losers. A team that was mediocre to decent in their best seasons and awful to atrocious the rest of the time.
Yet for those of us who know their distant past, they actually have one of the great lineages in NFL history. They were the dominant team of the 1950s. As a matter of fact, they were to the 1950s what the Pittsburgh Steelers were to the 70s or the San Francisco 49ers were to the 80s or the Dallas Cowboys to the 90s.
You get the picture, as hard as it may seem to believe for those of us who have only been alive since the Lions fall from grace into obscurity and beyond.