Share your best Detroit Lions moments or stories about you and your dad—or you and your son.
Sunday is Father’s Day, and for a lot of Detroit Lions fans, it’s a holiday that is intertwined with their football fandom.
While some may be new to their Detroit Lions fandom due to the recent success of the franchise, a huge portion of local fans have a family football tradition going back generations. Detroit Lions fandom can be a way to deepen a relationship between father and son, father and daughter, mother and son, or mother and daughter.
But seeing as it’s Father’s Day, I figured today would be as good as any to share your relationship with your father and how it pertains to Lions or football fandom.
Today’s Question of the Day is:
What is your relationship with your father and the Detroit Lions?
My answer: My father is essential to my love of the Detroit Lions. I grew up watching how passionate (see: angry) he was while watching them, and it was something I deeply wanted to be a part of. It’s hard to find a picture of my childhood where I wasn’t wearing Lions gear or hold a pair of Silverdome souvenir pom poms. For nearly two decades, I’d spend every Sunday watching the team side-by-side with my dad.
There’s a longer story there, and I wrote about it nearly a decade ago now. It’s still a little hard to go back and read that today, but I’m starting to view this day as more of a celebration than a reminder that he’s gone. I owe so much—including this profession—to my father, and I will spend most of this day remembering those Sundays spent in the Silverdome and Ford Field with gratitude in my heart.
What’s your football relationship with your father? Got any special stories to share? Scroll down to the comment section and let us know.