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Have you noticed the massive success of the Detroit Lions recently? Well, so has the National Writers Series! Game after game, fans—even those who don’t usually watch the Lions—are in complete awe of how they’ve shifted from one of the worst teams in the NFL to a top contender for the Super Bowl. Last year they made it to the playoffs, and this year ESPN predicts that they’ll be the 2025 winners of the Super Bowl LIX!

Author and journalist Bill Morris takes note of this wild triumph that’s sent the Lions charging into the end zone every… single… game. He writes that the tide is finally turning for the Detroit Lions, the most hapless team in football.

Morris captures the team’s recent turnaround and playoff run under the savvy stewardship of William Clay Ford, Jr.‘s daughter Sheila Ford Hamp, general manager Brad Holmes and charismatic coach Dan Campbell. The Lions have now rejoined the ranks of the league’s elite and, at long last, are roaring with pride.

Deeply researched and briskly written, The Lions Finally Roar is about more than football. It also explores the American class system, the team’s linked history with Detroit and its auto and music industries, the city’s changing racial dynamics, the rising power of television, and how all of it transformed the NFL from a fall sport into a multi-billion-dollar, year-round behemoth and cornerstone of American popular culture.