Detroit Lions Mystery Cache

This cache is part of the NFL Series. Cache is NOT at the posted coordinates. You must solve the puzzle below to find the true coordinates.

• On November 22, 1963, William Clay Ford, Senior purchased the Detroit Lions for $4.5 million.
• The Detroit Lions have retired the number 20 to honor former running back Barry Sanders. Number 20 was also worn by all-time great Lions Lem Barney and Billy Sims.
• The Detroit Lions won the NFL Championship in 1935, 1952, 1953, and 1957, but have never appeared in a Super Bowl.
• In what has become known as the “Iron Man Game”, Portsmouth Spartan Head Coach Potsy Clark refused to substitute for any of his players in a 1932 game versus the rival Green Bay Packers. Portsmouth, which would become the Detroit Lions in the following season, won the game 19-0 and used only 11 players total including offense, defense, and special teams.
• Originally started in 1929 as the Portsmouth Spartans, they joined the NFL in 1930.
• In 1970, soul singer Marvin Gaye tried out for the Detroit Lions. Some Lions players sang backup on his hit song “What’s Going On?”
• In 2008, the Detroit Lions went 0-16, the only team to be completely winless since the NFL moved to sixteen season games in 1978.
• The team officially became the Detroit Lions in 1934.
• In the early 1990’s the Lions had two consecutive Heisman Trophy winners on their roster at the same time. Running back Barry Sanders won the award in 1989 and Andre Ware won it in 1990. Years later the 1991 Heisman Trophy winner, Ty Detmer, would join the Lions.