Honolulu Blues: How Loving a Losing Team Created a Winning Man

A comedic play-by-play of historic gridiron failure marked by stunning almost wins and saw-it-coming losses that positions Detroit Lions lore as the backdrop for exploring themes of generational trauma, addiction, mental illness, and death

The city of Detroit and its football team have been a punchline since the 1960s—the Same Old Lions seem to have losing baked into their DNA.

Joel Walkowski is a poor kid from the Midwest, cut from the same cloth as his loveable, eccentric father, Banjo Bo...