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What was the world like when Detroit Lions won in 1935?

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What was the world like when Detroit Lions won in 1935?

Detroit Lions won this NFL Championship (pre–Super Bowl) in the 1935 season. This is an older edition; 1957 is the most recent verified title season in this archive.
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CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON1935SEASON 1935

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THE DETROIT LIONS WIN IT ALL.

NFL Championship (pre–Super Bowl) — 26–7 over New York Giants.

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BEYOND THE SCOREBOARD…

The calendar reads 1935. Here is who arrived, who left, what launched, what people watched, and how the world worked.
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THE WORLD OF 1935

Hard times, bright screens

The calendar reads 1935. Here is who arrived, who left, what launched, what people watched, and how the world worked.

Wait, That Happened?

The first canned beer reaches shoppers.

Krueger’s beer went on public sale in cans on January 24, proving that drinkers would accept a package breweries had tested cautiously for years.
Source: Beer Can History ↗
How we’re counting thisThis is the first widely documented public commercial sale; breweries had distributed limited test cans earlier.

Remembered

The world said goodbye to Will Rogers.

The humorist, actor, and newspaper columnist died in an Alaska plane crash.
Source: Will Rogers ↗
How do you count “winning it all”?

We count the top championship named for the selected competition—not conference, division, playoff appearance, or consolation titles. Season labels stay separate from the date the trophy was actually clinched.

  • NFL defaults to Super Bowls; pre-Super Bowl league titles are identified separately when included.
  • Relocations follow the franchise unless a league’s official record book separates the history.
  • FBS selectors, split titles, claims, vacancies, and co-champions are labeled rather than flattened.

Result checked 2026-08-28. View Detroit Lions historical 1935 schedule ↗

Overall season champion: Super Bowl winner from the 1966 season onward, plus NFL/AFL champions before the Super Bowl existed. A 1966–69 NFL/AFL league-final win that was followed by a Super Bowl loss is not treated as “won it all.” The archive includes every recognized title attributed to the current franchise under this policy.