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Robert Zeglinski

Lions fans had their stadium looking like an actual home game for Detroit’s NFC title game watch party

It would be an understatement to say the Detroit Lions have put their fans through the wringer. For decades, the Lions were a laughingstock, one of the NFL’s true bottom feeders who acted as their own consistent supply of lowlights. But then Dan Campbell came in and ushered in a professional football Renaissance Detroit never saw coming.

Sunday’s NFC title game against the San Francisco 49ers might have just been a culmination for a fanbase waiting for a moment of joy.

If, for some reason, you don’t believe me, just take a look at this raucous watch party at Ford Field for the game. It looked like such a big party that if they never showed the actual field, then you’d think the Lions were hosting the battle for NFC supremacy, not the 49ers.

And everyone there paid a lot of money to watch on the JumboTron together:

The city of Detroit has clearly been waiting years for a Lions team like this. And at a certain point, the people of the city almost certainly stopped believing. But Campbell and Co. finally delivered a hard-hitting, championship-caliber team worth being proud of.

NFL fans were in awe of the Lions' watch party at Ford Field

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