With two games remaining in the 2023 NFL regular season, the Detroit Lions are headed to the playoffs as division champs for the first time since 1993, and for the first time ever as NFC North champs.
The Lions' previous division title, way back in the days before the North, was won in the five-team NFC Central, which featured the familiar Chicago Bears, Green Bay Packers and Minnesota Vikings as well as the Tampa Bay Buccaneers (who are not "Central" to anything, save Florida).
In the spirit of the Lions' accomplishment, as well as perhaps the spirit — or is that ghost?