Shoulder and stripe work pair Honolulu Blue with black. Official language compares those darker hits to a lion locking onto prey. The jersey stays in the Lions palette, but it looks harder than a standard white road top.

DETROIT sits on the chest in blue. The Rivalries jersey does not invent a new crest. It puts the city on the front and ties the look back to the Lions' existing identity.

Numbers are italicized black with a Honolulu Blue outline, leaning forward for speed. Paint-stripe details run through the jersey and connect the white field to the blue-and-black trim. The texture is closer to factory paint and racing marks than to a standard NFL sleeve bar.

Inside the collar: "Defend the Den." Ford Field is the den. Every opponent is treated as an intruder. That is the brief for the jersey.

Detroit did not make a blue alternate and call it Rivalries. It made a white jersey about home turf: city name on the chest, Defend the Den at the collar, italic numbers, and blue-black paint-stripe details.