These were the Lions' best uniforms.

All these years later, I still try to wrap my mind around the fact the Lions once played at Tiger Stadium. Just seems unreal.

As a kid growing up in the 1970s we were glued to the TV watching these. The music, the slow-mo, intrigue, and the tuba music. This was when the NFL was a league where opposing players really did not get along with each other. Now it is glam fest where opponents (who are friends) allow records to be set and laugh about after the game.

These classic NFL Films have been so iconic. I can remember being a small boy, my Grandparents took me EVERY year to the Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame. This was back in the 70's. 1974, 1975, 76, 77, 78. It was a yearly tradition. In the summer we'd plan a weekend trip, usually in July or August. We'd pack up the 1974 Impala(I think that's the car?), filled with my little plastic NFL Helmets from the 25c machines. A cooler, sandwiches🥪🥪, snacks, and off we'd go. We lived in Franklin, which is a suburb of Milwaukee. We'd jump on I-94 and head to I-43 North to Green Bay, Wisconsin! It was not a long drive, not at all. But when your between 7-11 years old, and your anticipation is always soaring, it takes forever...lol. We'd stop at one of the Hotels/Motels and get a room for 1 or 2 nights. The Hall of Fame was a 2 day event. First day we'd just tour the basics. Then the next day we'd spend hours in there. For my Grandpa and Grandma, who were in their 70's themselves this couldn't have been easy. But they did it. My Grandparents helped care for me at times. They meant the world to me! My Grandpa was my buddy, my protector, my candy sneaker...lol. He loved his chocolate🍫bars. Whenever we went shopping Grandma would be getting veggies, actual food for dinner, and Gramps would sneak me off to the front and get me....US, a candy🍫bar. Then the obligatory shh! DON'T TELL GRANDMA! With a wink.😉 She knew, and she knew he was the instigator, but it was so much fun and so adorable to see him FIB about where we were or where we snuck off too. Grandma would shake her finger! You'll spoil his dinner! Again it was such a wonderful experience to be able to spend summertime vacations with them. Sorry about that, the long tangent story. Back to the HoF. Day one I'd always see the old classic jerseys and helmets. I LOVED even then the "retro" logos and helmet styles of the 60's and early 70's, especially the Washington Redskins. Their yellow helmet with the (R)🪶 was so iconic. But the Maroon helmet with the spear, like the Florida State spear they have on their helmet. Also the New York Giants old disco logo. The NY logo had the《《effects》》. A poor sample below. Sorry I tried. ||\\ || \\ // || \\ || \\ // || \\|| || ==========// But I was able to see so many older classic players, teams, jerseys, helmets, logos, and even the different styles of 🏉🏈footballs🏈🏉 they used. At the end of day one was the "store"! I was in football nirvana. They had little Goalposts that had notches that you could display your helmets on. They sold them in divisional sets. I got the Packers Division, and I think I got the N.Y.Giants double NY logo helmet there as well, along with the yellow Redskins helmet. Then day 2 came. Unlike my parents my Grandparents were always awake early, so we got there at opening. I discovered something that would be an absolutely perfect end to a perfect vacation. They had a smaller🎥movie🎬theater🎞. It wasn't like where you saw a regular movie at, however it was very nice. It started with the epic NFL FILMS🎼🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵 MUSIC! Then the📽movie📽 The History of the Green Bay Packers began. It was the best time I had. My Grandpa sat next to me, nudging me every so often telling me, "Watch this! This is great!" My Grandma would sometimes stay back at the hotel while Grandpa and I would go to the HoF on day 2. I don't remember the exact length of the movie, but I didn't care since I was lost in this amazing documentary about the Packers. Now I've loved the Packers my whole life, but I've also LOVED the NFL as well. So any and every documentary that NFL Films did I'd watch! My dream was to one day go to the NFL🏈🏈Football🏈🏈 Hall Of Fame in Canton, Ohio with my Grandpa and Grandma, but we never got to do it. I realize this was a long story, but the memories that these old NFL Films bring back are extremely important and very special. I just love football, NCAA, CFL, even the arena league, and of course the NFL! My PACKERS have always been my #1 team! But again I love to watch football games period! From the 🤠🤠Cowboys⭐⭐, the🐅🐯Bengals🐯🐅, 🐻🐻Bears🐻🐻, 🦅🦅Eagles🦅🦅, 🦁🦁Lions🦁🦁, 🦬🦬Bills🦬🦬, 🐏🐏Rams🐏🐏, 🐬🐬Dolphins🐬🐬 ⚡⚡Chargers⚡⚡, 🏭🏭Steelers🏭🏭, 🛡⚔Raiders⚔🛡, 🛡⚔Buccaneers⚔🛡, 🛫✈Jets🛩🛬, 🐆🐆Jaguars🐆🐆, ⛏⚒49ers⚒⛏, ⚜⚜Saints⚜⚜, 🟪🟨🟨🟪Vikings, 🟧🟫🟫🟧Browns, 🟦🟥◻Giants🟥🟦, 🔴🟡Chiefs🟡🔴, 🏹🪶Redskins🪶🏹, 🐎🐎Colts🐎🐎, and all of the rest! Getting to see many of the old school football jerseys and helmets or lack of helmets, along with some of the best players of the past was amazing for me. I loved it! The Packers Hall of Fame was located in a separate building from Lambeau Field. It was a really cool design, and they had a Packers receiver leaping for a ball out front. Now that building is gone, and the Packers HoF sits inside of Lambeau Field. I have not seen it as of yet. I'm sure it's still awesome, but my memories of the classic building is etched in my brain 🧠 forever! It was a great time to be a kid!

I WISH THEY STILL PLAYED OUTSIDE!

Makes me want to be a time traveller.

The Detroit Lions really did have a nice color scheme. Unique. No other pro sports team has this exact combination. Unfortunately for fans, this franchise has associated Honolulu Blue and Silver with losing.

The music in the first highlights, the Lions home opener against the Vikings, is awesome. I'm a lifelong Vikings fan, and watched that game as an 8 yr old from Akron, Ohio on wjw channel 8 out of Cleveland. What a defensive struggle. Vikings win 7-6. Then the lions got revenge at Minnesota later that year. Love this stuff.

17:17 27 years later, in 2001, Ford Field was under construction in downtown Detroit, waiting for the Lions to come back home to the city, while the Pontiac Silverdome was becoming an obsolete NFL venue. Then, the Pistons, who played at the Silverdome from 1978 to 1988, then the Palace of Auburn Hills from 1988 to 2017, eventually followed suit, by becoming co-tenants with the Red Wings at the new Little Caesars Arena in downtown Detroit. It's proven that downtown Detroit, has slowly come back to life in the 21st century. As the Silverdome, it's all open land, after it was completely demolished in 2018. As for the Palace, it's about the meet the wrecking ball this year after Pistons owner Tom Gores sold the arena.

Ahhh the smell and sounds and sights of my early family Thanksgivings! I live in NY and even as I got older and to me it wasnt Thanksgiving till the Lions game always started.

I'm a Detroit lions fan so you know it lets go lions

The last season the Lions would play all their home games outside.

The tune during the Lions-Giants segment was also the theme music for "This Week In Pro Football" in 1974.

this would be the final season of Lions football playing home games at the legendary Tiger Stadium.

I always said the toughness of teams like the Lions and Vikings left once they ran to play indoors. Neither of them can win outdoor games when the temps are 50 degrees or less and forget about even dealing with the elements.

I expect great things from the Detroit Lions I'm from Washington DC I love the Detroit lions

Yes, indeed - Altie Taylor should be considered one of the Lions' greats, and a super runner from that era. Look at that speed as he outraces that Minnesota defense on that off-tackle, 10 yard run.

So THIS was the year the Lions beat the Giants, 20-19. I remember watching that game as a kid in NJ, and figuring even though they were trailing, 19-10, that a TD and a FG would let them win by 1 point. (for a kid, that was some pretty heady calculating going on there!) Sure enough, that's exactly what happened and I couldn't have been happier.

Growing up in the 70s, the Lions were rarely on Monday Night Football. I remember how excited we all were when they played the Falcons in 1973, and it was sold out at Tiger Stadium, so we got to watch it. They even won lol.

From 1968 through 1983, the Lions beat the Vikings only once in Minnesota. This was it, in 1974...a year they finished at 7-7, yet again in 2nd place. It's funny, as a kid, I didn't grasp that the Lions didn't really have a shot at getting to the Super Bowl, so every year I hoped THAT would be the year they finally would knock the Vikings off and make a deep playoff run. I guess it was good to not have an idea of how hopeless it actually was. Still, loved my Lions.

Coach Forzano was one of several college coaches who came to my home to recruite my (late, great) brother in the 60's.

I expect great things from Detroit God bless you Detroit Lions fans

The Lions last season at Tiger Stadium and moved indoors for the next 45 plus years at Silverdome and Ford Field

19:26 What would prove to be the final carry of Steve Owens' career. Five seasons, 2,451 yards rushing and 20 TDs. (plus 99 receptions for 861 yards and 2 more TDs)

I miss old tigers stadium

Love those Dungard facemasks!!!

Three NFL teams moved in 1975. The Saints and Lions opened their domes, and the Giants moved from the Yale Bowl to Shea.

I agree, enow,rain,etc,add awesome elements.

From 1968 - 1980, the Lions were to the Vikings like the hapless Bills were to the Dolphins.

As bad as the Lions were NFL films makes it enjoyable.

that was their last season at tiger stadium before moving to the silverdome

Love the Broncos uniforms

That indoor stadium ruined this team and the central division

The last year they played outdoors. They lost their identity when they went under the dome. Sad.

Wow Taylor was pretty good real smooth

I played golf with Larry Walton in a fundraiser event the other day, and had to come here to check him out! He is such a nice guy!

I miss Tiger Stadium.

Funny how they referred to LB Paul Naumoff as an "old pro", when I remember him as being the youngster in the old LB core of Naumoff, Lucci and Walker...

Odd that The Autumn Wind is playing in a Detroit Lions highlight film...

Through most of the 1970s, the Lions were right around .500. But that average won-loss performance didn't nearly reflect what happened on the field. One week they'd play like champs in the making, the next they were snakebit and hopeless.

good to see the vikings constantly beat the lions

When he was motivated to play no one better then Alex Karass Bart Starr hated playing the lions on Thanksgiving 😂😂

DUMBEST RULE EVER: Back in those days, all home games were blacked out within a 75 mile radius of each team's home market, meaning the NFL excluded 50% of the most loyal fans of each game from 100% of potential ad revenue on TV! Even the final ever Lions home game at Tiger Stadium on Thanksgiving Day of this season was BLACKED OUT in Detroit. The 1957 NFL Championship between the Lions and the Browns was also blacked out in Detroit, despite it being a sellout, and despite the Lions BEGGING the Commissioner to allow them to air it locally. Can you imagine a stadium-closing, nationally-televised holiday game with playoff implications, or a nationally televised league championship game being blacked out locally today??

Hmm...a new American Football League...playing outside mandatory. Grass too

The black and blue division. The last era the Lions were a top defensive team.

What happened to the Pontiac Silverdome was definitely a picture of what was going to happen to all of the Detroit. The taxpayers of Pontiac sure got screwed over

I noticed that Jerry Glanville was special teams coach and Sam Wyche 3rd string quarterback on this team. A decade later they bitterly hated each other as coaches of the Oilers and Bengals. I wonder if their feud somehow began in 1974?

Listening to that music is absolute torture

If NFL Network existed during the era of John Facenda, they would overuse him to death. Remember, he was alive when cable TV was still kind of a novelty.

The first year with the goal posts at the pack of the end zone.

1974 was the first season the NFL moved the goalposts from the goal line to the end line.

Watch that block by Bill Munson at about the 4 minute mark!

Lions finally beat the Vikings!! God it was great!!!

Still waiting for the Lions to win a championship. I'm 23 years old.

Last season at Tiger Stadium

Ah--so this was the season that the Lions' victory over the Vikes, allowed them to wear white shoes? I remember seeing that from a different video. Personally, I think black shoes looked better!

The Lions had Dallas Cowboy-like uniforms, but that is where the similarity ended. Should have won the 5-0 playoff game against Dallas. Most ridiculous playoff game in NFL history.

cant believe i' watching this

More misdirection in their offense back in the 70s than Jim Bobs

Black shoes looked better with those uniforms.

Lmao...the SOL ...It seems like I've see this same season over and over before .

The Lions and their K-Mart facemasks.

I noticed the black arm band on the Lions uniforms. I don't think it was Chuck Hughes. He died in 1971.

The Lions tried. Gotta give em credit for such.

Final season a tiger stadium before they move to the suburbs of Pontiac in the new indoor Stadium

Honolulu Blue and Silver

A near miss field goal against Green Bay and a near miss touchdown vs Minnesota probably cost them a playoff appearance as they would have been 9-5 instead of 7-7. Typical SOL! It has sucked being a Lions fan for all my life. Why do I still watch? It must be some kind of disease!

Paper Lion!

Ed O'Neal aka Al Bundy used to play for the Lions

You know your season is already in the toilet (7-7) when you lose game #1 to the Bears who went 4-10. Signed, George Halas

The Lions rate a film?

Big cleveland brown fan from uk. No disrespect meant but have the lions always sucked like the browns. Would welcome comments about this period in lions history.

My son played for this team and the year after. He sucked though on the real tip.

#SOLforever !

Too bad the Lions of the 1970s couldn't put it all together and haven't done so in more recent years either. Signed, Bobby Layne

I got to get Jersey s number 34 number 42

Wow! You mean the Lions actually play an entire season? For years I thought they were a "made-for-TV" team to provide programming on Thanksgiving Day.

Detroit Lions will NEVER make it to the super bowl.

Did John Facenda ever narrated a Detroit Lions Highlight Film?

Belichick coached with the Lions in the late 1970s. Too bad the Lions were more Loins than Lions.

Always happy to see the Lions lose against the Vikings

Deeeetroit football

The Year Of The Comeback! ('74, '75, '75, '77, '78, '79, '80 '81, '82, '83, '84, '85, '86, '87 '88, '89, '90, '91,...aw, fuck it.)

The Lions were only a mediocre also ran the whole decade of the 1970s. They had 1 playoff appearance in the whole decade 1970. The high point of the 1974 season was they beat Minnesota on the road 20-16

This was a bad idea