... very different fortunes last season.

The Lions reached a historic low. The Steelers, a historic high.

The Lions finished out their season 0-16, the first team ever to do so. The Steelers won their sixth Super Bowl, making them the team with the most Super Bowl wins in NFL history.

If you didn’t already know that the league makes schedules on a rotating basis, you would think it was somebody’s cruel joke pitting these teams against one another.

And yet, a quarter of the way into the season, these teams seem more alike than different.

Both teams are built around running and defense, although Pittsburgh has a storied history of it, and it’s sort of a new idea (or the return of an old one) in Detroit.

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