Detroit Lions Tickets

  The Detroit Lions are a professional American football team based in Detroit, Michigan. The Lions are currently members of the Northern Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League. Originally called the Portsmouth Spartans, the team began play in 1930 as one of the NFL's small town teams in Portsmouth, Ohio. However, the Lions were forced to move to Detroit in 1934 due to the Great Depression. Get your Lions tickets today for the best selection.

 After three futile attempts at establishing a professional football team in Detroit in the 1920s, the "new" game took a firm foothold in the city beginning in 1934, when Detroit radio executive George A. Richards purchased the Portsmouth, Ohio, Spartans for the then-astounding sum of $8,000 and moved the franchise to the Motor City. The Spartans had joined the NFL in 1930 and, in 1932, played in one of history's most pivotal games, a hastily-scheduled championship game against the Chicago Bears that was played indoors at Chicago Stadium.