The day of that very playoff game was the day after my 21st birthday.
Detroit would never relinquish it. ET Jan. 2, 2015 | Updated 10:46 p.m. Since the team knew Dallas would focus on stopping Barry Sanders and the run game, Detroit gambled by focusing on Erik Kramer and the pass game instead. They’ve never even been to one. Either way, NO ONE was stopping juggernaut Washington in ’91, or at least not once the playoffs began!Lions weren’t a paper tiger. The Lions fought back with a touchdown pass to receiver Willie Green and a field goal by kicker The Lions finished the season with a 9-0 record at home, counting their playoff win. This is in a game that Detroit led wire-to-wire, the ultimate running game script.
Lions quarterback Eric Kramer waves to the crowd during Detroit’s 38-6 playoff win over Dallas on Jan. 5, 1992. More great context that is welcomed and appreciated. Put an extra rounded tablespoon of sugar in the Kool-Aid.Were the Detroit Lions actually the second-best team in the NFL in 1991? Goosebumps.I had a fondness for this guy from my Tecmo Super Bowl days. It could, yes – but only if the following had occurred. This was the “one playoff win since 1957” that has since turned into a glorified punchline. There is no discounting our victory over the Cowboys because the Cowboys hadn't reach their full potential yet. went M.I.A. But this team made the most of what they had, and can safely be labeled as overachievers, at least for one year. That’s how close it was. He racked up nearly half (47) of his career scores in his first three seasons, despite putting up his most dominant rushing totals in the back half of his career. So I decided to go back to 1991 (technically January 5th, 1992) and watch, for the first time in its entirety, Despite growing up in Detroit and dad being a season-ticket holder, my 7-year-old self was more familiar with the Tecmo Super Bowl version of the 1991 Detroit Lions than the real one.My fandom began closer to ’93, so I wasn’t able to experience the fun of ’91 in real-time. Both games between them that year were desperately close; and had Dallas faced Washington in the divisional round, there’s no telling what might’ve happéned.As it was, their last ditch win v Atlanta in Week 17 put paid to that, as did the Falcons winning in New Orleans the following week. The Lions were doing whatever they wanted without Barry’s greatness, but it still didn’t sit right. This may be a veiled cry for help. After taking ’92 “off”, which was just as surprising as they going 12-4 within one game of the Super Bowl, they went on to make the playoffs five more times in the ’90s – three more times under Fontes, two more under Bobby Ross (remember, they made it in ’99 at 8-8).
My name is Jon Hamilton and I am the creator and operator of The Warm Take, a Detroit Sports analysis and opinion website. You got to at least play the ‘big boys’ close. Chris Spielman and Jerry Ball (who missed the playoffs) made the leap to 1st Team All-Pro, while Bennie Blades was laying fools out en route to his first (and only) Pro-Bowl. The best part is, we can cherry-pick the games that make us feel all warm and fuzzy inside. But it was fun to imagine what could have been. That may have been quite a tougher task than Dallas. I knew the final score. There’s no other way.Thanks again for the great read – and here’s hoping we see the likes of ’91 again sometime before hell freezes over.Thanks for the read and the kind words! Yes, they in a DOME vs Buffalo for all the marbles…can’t say that they would have actually won considering all that talent the Bills had – and with Marv Levy as their coach – but it would have been an interesting matchup especially seeing BOTH starting lineups clashing. So, for fun, revisit their last playoff win, which came at the Pontiac Silverdome against the Dallas Cowboys.The Detroit Lions had never been to an NFC Championship Game before 1991, but during that season they had 12-4 record and earned a divisional round home game against the Cowboys.The Lions dominated the game from start to finish behind the arm of Erik Kramer and headed to their first NFC Championship Game in franchise history.Copyright 2017 by WDIV ClickOnDetroit - All rights reserved.Ken Haddad is the digital content manager for WDIV/ClickOnDetroit.com. They’ve done it twice in the past six years alone (2016, 2014). Midway through the fourth, he was sitting on 22 yards. They completely swamped us, and the TOP was absurd: part of a perfectly executed gameplan to keep Barry off the field throughout.4. However they did at least split with a good Ditka Bears team. The previous #20, Billy Sims, was at RB and may have ended up having not much less historical status than Barry Sanders had he not suffered that early, career-ending injury. Consider this:Detroit went 3-0 against Dallas and Buffalo in 1991. The Lions’ season was bookended by blowout losses to the Redskins by a combined 76 points. I am a lifelong Michigander and a University of Michigan graduate. But in 1991 the opposite was true. This was game that Lions Guard Mike Utley suffered a career ending spinal injury. In honor Free Game Friday the NFL presents the 1991 Divisional Playoffs between the Dallas Cowboys and Detroit Lions. Division titles since:The Detroit Lions have never won a Super Bowl. Lions fans don’t need any reminder about the significance of their team’s 38-6 playoff win over the Cowboys during the 1991 season. DETROIT – The Detroit Lions will look for their first playoff win since 1991 when they take on Seattle Saturday night.. in his only playoff win.On his final carry of the game, Sanders broke a vintage 47-yarder for a TD to seal the deal. DETROIT – The Detroit Lions will look for their first playoff win since 1991 when they take on Seattle Saturday night..
Which says it all really. They also won there late in the previous, ’88, season as an eventual 3-13 team knocking Washington out of playoff-contention, Landry’s last season, rookie Michael Irvin’s “coming out” party – 3 TDs! Detroit only won in Buffalo because the Bills rested most of their starters!
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