Building the Detroit Lions monument to Super Bowl success
By Robert Jones
The Detroit Lions have had little success in the Super Bowl era, but what would their shrine to the keys of Super Bowl success look like if they made one?
The Detroit Lions are no stranger to futility. They are one of only two teams (the other being the Cleveland Browns) that been in existence since the advent of the Super Bowl and never played in it.
Over the course of the 52 Super Bowls that have been played there are definite tendencies that have played out. Tendencies that the Lions have spend more than half a century avoiding. And while those tendencies can sometimes fluctuate, they are generally a good rule of thumb as to who is truly in contention to win the Super Bowl and who isn’t.
Those key are that most Super Bowl champions have an elite head coach, an elite to Hall of Fame quarterback and one of the top defenses in the league.
Go through and look them up yourselves if you don’t believe me.
As I said before, there are always exceptions like the Baltimore Ravens who won Super Bowl XXXV with Trent Dilfer at quarterback or the way that the Patriots and Eagles seemed to have some sort of ‘no defense’ pact this past February in Super Bowl LII after both had been very respectable during the regular season and playoffs. They aren’t all that obvious, but you get the idea.
So with that formula in mind, I have decided to build the Detroit Lions monument to Super Bowl success or Mount Vince Lombardi Award Rushmore.
Call it what you will, either way works as far as I’m concerned.
So the criteria is that this monument will feature the Lions quarterback most capable of leading the team to a championship, the head coach that fits the same criteria, the best defensive player to have worn the much maligned Honolulu Blue and Silver and for a bonus because technically there are four openings for any type of Mount Rushmore, we will add the Lions best non-quarterback. Because great players at other positions not in the formula are important pieces in the championship chase as well.