i wish to return back to lions…

Graham Glasgow doesn’t usually pay too much attention to the Super Bowl. If he is not participating in a game, he has no reason to become overly invested in its conclusion.

This year will be no different.

Glasgow, the Detroit Lions’ senior offensive lineman, stated that next week’s Super Bowl between the Kansas City Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers will be extremely difficult to watch following the Lions’ 34-31 NFC championship game loss to the 49ers.

“When it’s time to finally just like move on and have the season be over, I feel like that’s probably when you can just let it go,” Glasgow said. “I’m not sitting here all day just mulling it over and thinking about it over and over again, but when I feel like you’re able to go and just watch a team that you maybe feel like you could have beat, should have beat, play another team that you already have beaten, it’s a — we’ll see. We’ll see how I feel.”

The Lions beat the AFC champion Chiefs in Week 1 of the regular season — on the road in the Chiefs’ banner-raising ceremony game. Kansas City played that game without Pro Bowl tight end Travis Kelce (because of injury) and defensive leader Chris Jones (because of contract negotiations), but the Lions held the Chiefs without a field goal in the second half and ran for 118 yards against one of the NFL’s stingiest defenses.

In last week’s NFC title game, the Lions jumped to a 17-point lead with a dominant first half against the 49ers before coming unraveled in a series of compounding mistakes.

As bitter as that loss was, Glasgow said he will leave this season proud of what the Lions accomplished and with an appreciation for the joy the playoff run brought to the state.

“I mean, it’s something to be proud of,” Glasgow said. “I feel like this team has accomplished a lot that hasn’t been done in what feels like forever. And like I said, you wish that we could have finished it all and won a Super Bowl and gave the ultimate thing to be proud of, but for everything that happened, it’s a good feeling.”

The Lions set a franchise record this season with 14 wins (regular season and playoffs), won their first division title in 30 years, and their first two playoff games since 1991.