A day after their stunning playoff loss, the Detroit Lions gathered in Allen Park on Sunday for exit physicals and one final team meeting.

Just last offseason, the Detroit Lions had legitimate reasons to hope that a Super Bowl run could come in their 2024 campaign. They were fresh off a narrow 34-31 NFC championship

Detroit has watched two of its best seasons in team history close in heartbreaking defeats in consecutive years. They have earned their sky-high expectations, but they'll have to wait another year to try to reach them.

Free Press readers are processing their feelings over the Detroit Lions' startling loss to the Washington Commanders.

Detroit Lions 2025 schedule includes 5 of the NFL teams still left in the playoffs entering Sunday: the Chiefs, Ravens, Commanders, Eagles and Rams.

Detroit Lions fans called in droves to share what the team means to them. This is about more than football; This is family and tradition.

This brings us to the Curse of Bobby Layne. Back in 1958, the Lions traded Layne to the Pittsburgh Steelers, and an angry Layne allegedly declared the Lions wouldn’t win a title for 50 years. Now, if that curse was a thing, it would have expired by now, right? And Peyton Manning and actor Jeff Daniels have been trying to get rid of it, too.

According to Vivid Seats, the Lions' divisional round matchup against the Commanders boasts the most expensive ticket in franchise history, with an average price of $855.

Detroit, which needed to win just two home games to make the first Super Bowl in franchise history, is out. The Commanders are moving onto the NFC title game for the first time since the end of the '91 season.

The Detroit Lions lost to the Washington Commanders after a series of costly errors in their NFL divisional playoff.

Jayden Daniels led the Washington Commanders to a 45-31 victory over the No. 1 seed Detroit Lions on Saturday, Jan. 18, 2025 at Ford Field in Detroit.