Publisher news: Unusual Lions Football Success Is Bringing a City Together ‘Versus Everyone.
Publisher: Unusual Lions Football Success Is Bringing a City Together ‘Versus Everyone…
The Detroit Lions football team was acquired on November 22, 1963, by William Clay Ford, Sr., who was the team president and a member of the Ford Motor Company board of directors at the time. President of the United States John F. Kennedy was slain in Dallas that same day. Up until this year, the NFL’s losingest franchise had experienced nothing but declines since then.
After 61 years since the Ford acquisition, the Lions have one more chance to accomplish a feat on January 21: they can win a second postseason game. The Lions have never won a Super Bowl and had only one playoff victory in their history until to last week’s 24-23 victory over the Los Angeles Rams, but their supporters have persevered, much like the city.
We’ve been down, but we’re not out; it’s our team. That is Detroit’s tale. It makes no difference to you how other people perceive you. Billy Strawter, the proprietor of MILO, a marketing and advertising agency, and publisher of Detroit-based Blac Magazine, told The Epoch Times, “We know who we are.
The Lions’ success this season, which featured their first NFC North Championship, has had a positive financial impact as well. Visit Detroit claims that the first-ever home playoff game for the team generated $20 million in economic benefits for the city last weekend.
“Last weekend’s hotel occupancy was 28% higher than it was a year ago.” That demonstrates how this affects the city, according to Chris Moyer, senior director of communications for Visit Detroit, the convention and visitor’s bureau for the city that has been operating for 128 years. “There are more people spending more money in downtown restaurants and pubs, buying coffee and beer. There is greater vibrancy in the city. Combined with the money made inside the stadium, you’re talking about $50 million for one playoff game,” he told The Epoch Times.
