The Detroit Lions Podcast is an independent Detroit Lions podcast and daily news site. It started in June 2015 and grew out of the founder’s years in the Lions community on Reddit, and it has been running ever since: more than 600 episodes, live post-game broadcasts after Lions games, draft coverage, and a daily written report on the team. We are fans who do this properly. We are not affiliated with or endorsed by the Detroit Lions or the NFL.

The people

Chris, Founder & Host. Chris founded the show in 2015 and has hosted it ever since. A Detroit native and former radio presenter, he spent 11 years in California, found the local supply of Lions fans badly short, and ended up in the team’s Reddit community; the podcast grew out of that. He now lives in Florida. He hosts the episodes and the live post-game call-in show, and he built the site’s writers program, which has helped aspiring sports journalists build a portfolio and earn college credit covering the team. Full bio →

Jeff Risdon, Co-Host & Managing Editor. Jeff has covered the NFL and the NFL Draft since 2004, at RealGM, the Lions Wire (USA TODAY Network), Bleacher Report, and others. On the show he co-hosts episodes and anchors the game previews, reviews, and mailbags. Full bio →

And the rotating voices of the show’s live broadcasts.

How the site is made

Podcast episodes and bylined articles are made by the people named on them. The daily written reports are produced by an automated system our team built and runs, with human oversight of the system rather than of each post; they run under the site’s own byline rather than a person’s name. How that works, and the rules all our content follows, is spelled out in our Editorial Standards. When we get something wrong, we say so: Corrections.

Ownership & funding

The Detroit Lions Podcast is independently owned and operated by its founder. The site is funded by advertising, affiliate links, listener support through Patreon, and merchandise sales. No sponsor or advertiser has any say in what we cover or what we say about this football team.

Reach us

The fastest routes are the contact form and @DetLionsPodcast on X. Corrections go to corrections@detroitlionspodcast.com. Mail still works too:

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