The "NFL 100 Greatest" ranks the top 100 games in NFL history, and the Portsmouth Spartans vs. Chicago Bears NFL Championship Game in the 1932 season lands at No. 82. "NFL 100 Greatest" counts ...

Portsmouth, Ohio has a rich football history, from fielding a semi-pro team led by Jim Thorpe in 1927 to a short but defining ...

Bill Belichick breaks down highlights of Detroit Lions and Portsmouth Spartans legend Dutch Clark as the running back is selected to the NFL All-Time Team. Los Angeles Rams wide receivers coach ...

In it, she said, was a torn admittance to the NFL’s 1932 championship game between the Chicago Bears and Portsmouth Spartans. With weather concerns and a push to attract more fans, the league ...

Originally based in Portsmouth, Ohio and called the Portsmouth Spartans, the team began play in 1929 as an independent professional team, one of many such teams in the Ohio and Scioto River ...

That NFL team, known as the Spartans, went on to become the Detroit Lions in 1934, but their presence is still felt in Portsmouth inside the walls of the still-standing Spartan Municipal Stadium.