Meghan Mayer, 38, decorated her classroom at Royal Oak Middle School in a Detroit Lions theme that would make any fan feel right at home. Every detail, from hanging banners to light-up letters ...

Afterward, one of the memorial committee’s fundraisers, longtime volunteer and World War II veteran Art Fishman, 96, of Oak Park, struck a pose beside the sculpture in a salute to the Lions.

The Lions have worn Honolulu Blue for nearly their entire 89-year existence in the Motor City. Detroit has rocked with the ocean-blue jerseys with a silver helmet and silver pants for nine decades ...

To learn more about why the Lions chose blue, you need to go back to the beginning. In 1928, the Detroit Lions started as the Portsmouth Spartans, based out of Portsmouth, Ohio.