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Author and journalist Bill Morris takes note of the wild triumph that’s sent the Lions charging into the end zone every… single… game of their 2025 season in The Lions Finally Roar. 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.

A Detroit native, Morris is also the author of novels Motor City and Motor City Burning, and the family memoir The Age of Astonishment. His work has also appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post Magazine, LA Weekly, Popular Mechanics, The Daily Beast, among numerous others.