2010年6月22日星期二

Do you Wearing Detroit Lions' Jerseys to Supports Your Team



The Detroit Lions were founded in 1929 in Portsmouth, Ohio, as the Portsmouth Spartans. In 1930 they joined the NFL. Since Portsmouth was then the smallest NFL city, the team couldn't survive there, so they moved to Detroit in 1934, after the change in ownership. Lions have won four NFL championships, the last one in 1957, and hold the record for the second longest period without a title in NFL. They also hold the record of longest loosing streak, having lost 19 consecutive games. Lions are the only team in NFL who lost all games in a single season, as they scored 0-16 in 2008. Detroit Lions have certainly seen better days, but hopefully, they will manage to recover and bring the pride back again to their home grounds, the Ford Field. Detroit Lions jerseys and the history that comes along with it will be explain in the next few paragraphs.
Detroit's uniforms are today almost the same as their original ones. They wear blue or white jersey with silver pants. The helmet is silver with black, white and blues stripe and Lion's logo on the side. The logo has been redesigned in 2008, adding fangs to the lion. In 1994, NFL's 75th anniversary, Lions wore their throwback jersey, similar to the one they had in 1935 championship season. They didn't have TV numbers on shoulders and the helmet was without a logo, since the helmets in 1935 were made of leather and didn't have any print on them.
Lion's blue is called "Honolulu blues" as it supposedly reminds of the color of the waves off Hawaii coast. The color was chosen by Cy Huston, who served as Lion's first vice president and general manager. Apparently, he was told that this particular shade of blue matches the silver pants. In 2003 team added black as one of their colors. The lion logo and jerseys received the black outline, and the new alternate jersey was introduced, black with blue stripes around the sleeves and blue numbers. Helmet mask was also changed form blue to black.
Alternate jersey, resembling the one they had in 1950s was worn in Thanksgiving Day matches in 2001-2004, as a part of league wide policy, where NFL recommended the teams to wear their alternate uniforms on Thanksgiving Day games. In April 2009, Lions introduced the new uniform design, featuring redesigned logo and more modern font.
Detroit Lion's mascot, Roary, is one of the most adventurous mascots in the league. He has been seen water skiing, tubing down the ski hill and riding a mechanical bull. Even with all of this, Roary still finds the time to entertain the fans in Lion's den and cheerleading for his team.
His favorite food is "barbequed bear and Viking venison with melted cheeseheads on top" and his shoes are bigger than Shaq's, according to his official bio on Lion's web site. Roary wears jersey number 1. With all the changes Lions introduced lately, the fan's hopes are getting high for the upcoming season. Hopefully, the team won't let them down and will make them proud again, as in the glory days. But will the blue Detroit Lions jersey become the terrifying sight for their opponents, only time will tell.

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