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The Detroit Lions are a professional American football team based in Detroit, Michigan. They belong to the North Division of the National Football Conference (NFC) in the National Football League (NFL), and play their home games at Ford Field in Downtown Detroit. Originally established in Portsmouth, Ohio as the Portsmouth Spartans, the team began competing in 1929 as an independent professional team, one of several such teams in the Ohio and Scioto River valleys. For the 1930 season, the Spartans officially joined the NFL after the other local independents ceased operations due to the Great Depression. Despite achieving success within the NFL, they were unable to thrive in Portsmouth, which was then the NFL's smallest city at that time. The team was acquired and relocated to Detroit for the 1934 season.