The Lions will welcome the 3-0 Seattle Seahawks to Ford Field on Monday night. It’s a chance to the Lions to get their second straight win of the season and end a fairly lengthy losing streak in this series.
Monday will mark the 19th time the Lions and Seahawks have met and they are seeing each other for the fourth straight season — the third straight in Detroit. Seattle leads the all-time series 13-5, including one playoff win for the Seahawks. The Seahawks have won six straight against the Lions, including last September’s 37-31 overtime win. Seattle is also 9-1 in the last ten head-to-head matchups. The Lions have not beaten the Seahawks since 2012, a 28-24 decision. Their last win in Seattle came all the way back in 1999 with the Lions winning 28-20. Detroit has just the one win so far since the turn of the millennium.
This series started way back in 1976, the inaugural season of the Seahawks. Detroit won the first meeting, 41-14. Seattle would go to win the next four meetings in 1978, 1984, 1987 and 1990. The Lions then went on their own three-game winning streak in this series, with wins in 1993, 1996 and 1999.
Seattle countered with three in a row of their own in 2003, 2006 and 2009 before the Lions snapped that streak in 2012. Since then, Seattle has won six straight, with wins coming in 2015, 2017 (2016 season, NFC Wild Card), 2018, two in 2022 (one in January at the end of the 2021 season) and last season.
It’s going to be a party in Detroit this week as the Lions look to end some recent futility against the Seahawks.