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Sixty-six years ago today, on December 29, 1957, the Detroit Lions won their latest NFL championship, beating the Cleveland Browns, 59-14<\/a>. It was the fourth time in six years that the two teams had met for the title: Detroit won the matchup in 1952 and 1953, and Cleveland won it in 1954. I wrote about the 1954 title game earlier this week<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Detroit scored two touchdowns in every quarter of the 1957 blowout. Tobin Rote<\/a> threw four touchdown passes and ran for another. Steve Junker, who passed away just this month<\/a>, caught five passes for 109 yards and two touchdowns. Jim Martin<\/a> kicked eight extra points, tying the NFL Championship Game record that Cleveland’s Lou Groza<\/a> had set three years before–against the Lions. The record still stands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wanted to feature a Steve Junker card for this post; unfortunately, he never appeared on a regular issue card. (Beckett says<\/a> he appeared on a 1953-1959 Lions McCarthy postcard, but I don’t have it.) So today’s card of the day is the 1958 Topps Lions team card<\/a>, which pictures the entire 1957 Lions team. Junker is in the middle row, just left of center. This is one of my “interactive” team cards: If you go to the card’s page in the Gallery<\/a>, then move your cursor over the image of the card, you can see who all of the players are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Junker, unfortunately, hurt his knee the following year and sat out the 1958 season. He came back to play two more seasons for the Lions and two for the Washington Redskins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can see all of the Gallery’s interactive team cards here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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