Commanders' Historic Win Ends Lions' Super Bowl Hopes

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00:00In sports there is always the outcome on either side the joy of victory the agony of

00:07Defeat the commanders winning in the division around pulling off a huge

00:12Outright upset as an eight-and-a-half point underdog in Detroit to advance to the franchise's first

00:18NFC championship game in more than three decades since the

00:231991

00:24NFL season but making history in going to a spot that a team has not been in a while if not ever

00:32was supposed to be the success story DRS for the Detroit Lions this year for the first ever time a

00:39one seat in a conference in

00:41Franchise history with home field advantage trying to simply win two games to play in the organization's first ever Super Bowl

00:50chasing that first ever

00:52Lombardi trophy that came up short in a big way on Saturday night

00:57Here was Dan Campbell after the game

00:59Of course the Lions head coach on what went wrong and how they will remember this season and you lose these games, man

01:08It's like the players

01:10You know

01:19What they put into it

01:23A lot of people don't know

01:27You know what they go through

01:31You have to get up

01:33bodies beach

01:37You know mentally stay locked in and do those things so

01:44Long season

01:52It's my fault

01:55It's my fault

01:58That is the mentality for a guy that often wears his emotions on his sleeve in Dan Campbell

02:04that has led Detroit to winning two consecutive NFC North crowns a

02:09franchise that had not won a divisional championship in

02:1230 years to host a playoff game in the Motor City to win a playoff game

02:17Something they did last season for the first time in

02:2032

02:22Seasons, but DRS there is also the sad side of things for

02:27Detroit and you saw that on the faces of the Lions faithful on

02:32Saturday the music and the effect that we have here really even furthering that there is a saying in Detroit

02:41Sol not you know what out of luck but same old lions you build yourself up

02:47To hope to have optimism only to be ready to

02:53Understand some pain once again, and you can see it on the faces in the Motor City

02:58It's some jubilation for some commanders fans in attendance as well

03:03Yeah, the shame of it all is like you do feel bad for the fan base now

03:07You know, my fan base rival is not the Detroit Lions

03:11But that's an organization and a football ready town that doesn't get the cheryl many good things over the past 50 years

03:17Like hey, we had Barry Sanders and it's like what else did you do? Hey, we had Barry Sanders like that's it

03:22Like that's all you get to cheer about for the Lions for the last 50 years

03:24So now you enter into a game and you see the raw emotion from Dan Campbell who you know myself like I've been really hard

03:30on that guy no question about it and I still will continue to be but I won't be in that press conference because

03:35Understanding like that was your shot

03:37You get very rare chances and not even in Detroit and outside of like Kansas City in New England to host the NFC

03:44Championship game where you're the one seed and things lay out in your direction as this is the year

03:48We finally put it all together and it looks like we can make a run to have it ripped out right away from you in

03:54Playoff game number one, but also understand this we are human beings

03:58These guys work side by side and forget about the players themselves because the team changes every single year due to free agency age

04:04Injury, you name it, but I'm sure he probably really likes to say, you know, man Aaron Glenn

04:09I show up every day to work. This guy puts it in with me Ben Johnson

04:12Every day to work this guy puts it in with me and understanding that we are probably never going to coach ever again in the

04:18NFL because both of those guys probably are getting head coaching jobs and you're sort of going with your life after that

04:23That's the shocking result because sometimes you prepare yourself like hey, you know what we're the road team

04:28We're getting nine and a half points, you know what this might be our last go-around

04:31But let's go out and see if we can pull one ahead

04:33There was no thought in that entire building players fans front office and ownership that thought they weren't making it to an NFC

04:41Championship game absolutely no thought so the sting of the end of the game where you get those raw emotions like hey, Dan

04:47What do you think happened out there?

04:48like I can't even process it because we were basically already on to the NFC championship game in the Super Bowl and I can't believe

04:55We're not even going to get to experience that with our team our ownership group front office and our fan base

05:00I understand those raw emotions

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