Detroit Lions Legend Lomas Brown meets with the media | November 25, 2025

Detroit Lions Legend Lomas Brown meets with the media | November 25, 2025

Thank you. Really, thank you. Um, first of all, thank the voters, but I want to thank this incredible PR department that we have here because they’ve really put in a lot of work to kind of push me out there. I want to thank the Lions. Just I’m just thankful today to be able to get to a point where I’ve never gotten that in the Hall of Fame selection. And yeah, I’m just thankful. Um, I’m sorry I’m looking a little rough. Just gonna Eric knows just had a couple of turkey giveaways earlier today. So didn’t have time to go home and spruce up to come talk to you guys. But like I say, I’m just really really thankful. It’s the season to be thankful. It’s close to Thanksgiving. So that’s my one word. So I don’t know any questions. How do you feel standing up there today after getting the news? Yeah. Yeah, I got the news. Like I say, I was at a um couple of turkey giveaways and my phone was just kept blowing up and didn’t know why. And I spoke with that man, Greg, as I call him, G Money, and he’s the one that broke the news to me. And I was just, you know, just flabbergasted. I mean, I didn’t have words, you know, at that point. I’m still kind of sure the words to say what this means to me. And just the appreciation, you know, just from I’ve been out the game since 02. That was my last year. Been up since 207. And like I say, to get to this round now, it just feels great. It really does. You feel appreciated. It did feel like it took that kind of extra boost of the the team to really put the candidacy out there, Lis, you know, for for them to go out there to gather the quotes from a lot of your peers and, you know, just to to kind of feel that that love from the organization, you know, what did that mean to you? Yeah, it means a lot. It really does. It means a lot. And it just means to me that you did something right, you know, and you did something right for this organization. And I know, man, through my 11 years that I was here, we had some up and down years, more probably down than up years that I was here. So, like I say, just to hear from other players that I played against, play guys that I played with, you know, just the appreciation that I feel and that went into the some of the things that they said. and you know, Schiller Hamp Ford, like I say, the rest of this organization, they’ve been good to the big guy. They really have. Hey, Lis. Uh, first of all, happy birthday as always. Thank you, man. Hey, winding back to your youth. What What drew you to the game of football originally? Well, I mean, it it was actually like I tell everybody, the principal I was in the band, like I say, I played the trombone. I was probably would have been the biggest trombone player in America. But my first day of high school, my principal grabbed me by the arm and took me back in the auditorium and he signed me up for varsity sports, which was football. So, you know, I was always the type of kid never wanted to disappoint people. So, I went out there reluctantly. I went out there and as they say, the rest was history. So, his name was Alex Brir. I always thought he since passed, but I always used to thank him every time I went back to my high school because if he wouldn’t have grabbed me and took me back in there, I don’t think I’ll be standing right here today talking to you guys. Did you fall in love with the game pretty quickly or how long did that take? It took a while. It took a while, you know, getting hit and all the other things that went into it. It took a while, but I think probably by my uh sophomore year, maybe probably by my junior year, I really started loving the game of football and it just kind of in my DNA and has been in my DNA since. I think for most people in Michigan, man, you left an impact outside of just sports. I mean, you talked about the turkey drives, but how did you transition to make an impact? You know, you doing media, you’re doing a lot of things in community. How was that for you as a person to, you know, make that make that impact outside of just sports? How important is that to you as well? Yeah. Well, you know, as a offensive lineman, right, you always got that protective you. It’s something about you where you want to protect people or make sure everybody else is having success. And I think for me, when I first got here in ‘ 85, my thing was, you know, instead of making a big impact on the field, I thought about making a big impact off the field. and it just kind of thrusts me into the community and you guys live here, man. This is a great community and we know it’s a lot of need out there. So, like they say, too much is given, much is expected. So, I kind of took that moniker and that’s kind of been the way I’ve kind of led my life and, you know, through my foundation or whatever I do, like you saying, doing turkey drives or whatever we can do to help, you know, I feel we’re obligated to do that. So, that’s kind of shaped me and that’s been me. That’s just been me. I don’t know any other way to be. What does it mean to you now to be part of the broadcast team and to get an up close look at what this team has been building? Oh, this is so great, man. I mean, just to see, like I say, even with Dan, you know, we he talks about it, but I was in my 15th year and he was in his second year when um when I got to New York and you know, you couldn’t say he was going to be a great coach, but it was something different about that dude. you know, the long hair. It was just something different how he carried his carried itself back then. But you know, just like you saying, just being part of what’s transpired under him and how the team is on the rise now and just to be a part of it, just to get opportunity to be around it, talk about the guys that are out there now. You know, it can’t kind of keeps you involved with the game, but it also creates new relationships because these younger guys now I’m around them a lot more and you know, they know me, I know them. So, it’s just been nice to be around these guys and like I say, see the success that this team is having, this organization is having now. Talk about the 18 years of eligibility. Just how validating is the quotes from your peers and now getting the news. Yeah, that’s big. That’s big when guys talk about you and you know, a lot of them were hall are Hall of Fame guys. when they talk about then like I say being it just lets you know you did something right back in the day and that that I made an impact and you know as being the offensive lineman you know we’re like the faceless five you know they only call you out when you do something wrong so it just kind of lets me know that things that I had a nice career here um in the NFL and went against some great guys played against a whole bunch of Hall of Fame guys and you know it’s just nice to know that your game kind of matched up with their day. Speaking of that, um when uh you know that obviously there was an EMTT Barry debate and a lot of people said that if you know Barry played behind Dallas’s offensive line, you know, you I mean and do you feel like you guys you in particular were unfairly stigmatized because of that? I mean, and so that may have affected the Yeah, I think cuz you’re right. That’s all we ever heard. And we knew what kind of offensive line we had. I mean, I played with all pro center and Kevin Glover. I think he’s one of the best centers to ever play the game. And you know, before the accident with Mike Utley, he was going to be one of the best guards in the league. And of course, the late great uh Eric Andlesk was on the rise to be. So, we knew what type of offensive line we had back then. And you know, I always tell people it was just Barry’s running style. You know, Be’s going to make it exciting. It’s not going to always be downhill like EMTT was. you know, be going to give you a little shake and bake every now and then. So, it was more his running style, but again, we know what we put into the game. And like I say, that comparison always we always heard that and we just tried to go out there and try to do as much as we could for Barry so he could have as much success as he could. We know Greg and the guys are going to get back to work to try to get you over that finish line, but is there a little party that’s thinking about that gold jacket and getting fitted yet? Yeah. You know, I want to make sure if I do get that gold jacket, I want to make sure it’s the right size, Brad. I have to make sure it’s the right size, right length. But no. Yeah. I, you know, always say this, and this is kind of how my career’s been. When it happens, it’s going to happen at the right time. You know what I’m saying? So, you know, when it does happen, and I say when it does happen, it’s going to be the right time. So, if it’s not this year, you know, it’s going to happen for me. and it’s going to be the right timing for me. What’s your favorite What’s your favorite thing the game of football has either given you or added to your life? Oh, wow. Um, you know what? It’s opened up so so many doors. I mean, so many doors. Look, I wouldn’t know you all right if if it weren’t for the game of football. I get to work with my BFF and you know, so it it’s just opened so so many doors for me. I’ve met so many great people and I think that’s what football has done for me. I have childhood friends, you know, that I go back with that I met throughout through playing football. Um, heck, I know the head coach of the Detroit Lions through playing football. So, you know, it’s just really opened up a lot of doors and it’s just a lot of people that I met that I’ve been blessed to meet along the way. Miss, while we have you, you mentioned Barry and we might be watching another Hall of Fame caliber talent in in Jir. When you watch Jir, do you ever see shades of of Barry? So the the Dan took the two things that I said through these three years watching him. The thing that I think he has like Barry is the vision. He’s so right about his vision because that’s so important and how he sets up blocks and you only do that unless you have that great vision. So that’s the one thing that I noticed. Um the things that I don’t compare with Barry that he does well and B ran through the middle of you know between the tackles just as well. But man Jir man he is much stronger and I think opponents find that out when they go up against him how much stronger he is running between the tackles. He’s not a hard guy to bring down. But the speed that’s unlike anything I’ve seen. I mean really I I haven’t seen anybody I don’t think that I’ve been around that can run the way he runs. I mean once he puts his foot in the ground he is gone. So the speed is uncharacteristic but that the vision I think is the thing that I see the most with Barry. Good. All right. Thank you all. All right. Yeah.

Pride of the Lions member and Detroit Lions Legend Lomas Brown is a semifinalist for the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

For the first time since the seven-time Pro Bowler retired 23 years ago, Brown has advanced to the semifinal round of this year’s Pro Football Hall of Fame voting as one of 26 modern-era candidates up for selection in the Hall’s 2026 class.

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