1963 Detroit Lions season

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The 1963 Detroit Lions season was their 30th season in Detroit and their 34th season overall.

[edit] Offseason

[edit] NFL Draft

[edit] Preseason

[edit] Paper Lion

Cover of "Paper Lion" featuring a picture of the author

Paper Lion, published in 1966, is a non-fiction book by prominent American writer George Plimpton. Plimpton pitched to a lineup of baseball stars in an All-Star exhibition, presumably to answer the question, "How would the average man off of the street fare in an attempt to compete with the stars of professional sports?" He chronicled this experience in his book, Out of My League. In Paper Lion, Plimpton joins the training camp of the 1963 Detroit Lions, on the premise of trying out to be the team's third-string quarterback. (The coaches were aware of the deception; the players were not until it became apparent that Plimpton did not really know how to receive the snap from center.) Plimpton, then thirty-six, showed how unlikely it would be for an "average" person to succeed as a professional athlete. When finally inserted at quarterback for a series in a scrimmage conducted in Pontiac, Michigan, Plimpton managed to lose yardage on each play, convincing many in the crowd that he was a professional sports clown inserted for amusement purposes, not someone who was genuinely giving his best effort.

[edit] Regular Season

[edit] Season Schedule

[edit] Season Standings

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[edit] Roster

[edit] Awards and Honors

[edit] Notes and references

• Detroit Lions on Pro Football Reference
• Detroit Lions on jt-sw.com