I've mentioned most of this before. Wasn't much of a pro football fan growing up. We had the Steelers, who were Lionesque, in the 60s. Moved south to where the 'Skins were dominate on TV and radio from the Sonny Jurgensen era to the Hogs and beyond.
Then on to Chicago for stellar football at the end of the Ditka era into Wannstedt to early Dick Juron. The last couple of years a small part of my wife's job was managing the radio broadcast.
We moved to Detroit near the end of the 2000 season and she was tasked with the Lions radio broadcasts among other things.
My first real association with the Lions then was the final game of the season, against the Bears. We had the Bears broadcasters over to our house for dinner the night before the game. I remember Tom Thayer getting lost in one of our overstuffed chairs that night.
That was the game that initiated to SOL. When they lost on a last second field goal, and started the Matt Millen era.
Just an addendum, while we were mulling over the move to Detroit we did an impromptu scouting trip to Detroit the weekend Bobby Ross quit. While we were tooling around the area listening to the Lions broadcast, my wife got a call from her boss in Chicago. The Bears flagship station station was off the area. A transformer had blown and folks were scrambling to get things back on the air. Something she had to "manage" from 5 hours away...
Maybe the gods wrer telling us something.