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Kalan Hooks, ESPN
As Loretta and Todd Benjamin sat in a room full of strangers and watched the Detroit Lions win their first playoff game since the 1991 season on a projector screen, their thoughts returned to their corn maze.
The Benjamins were trying to pick their next design for their autumn corn maze. The theme had to be selected by February, so the Benjamins could pass their GPS coordinates to their designer. However, they couldn’t pinpoint what spoke to them.
Loretta and Todd eventually went on a business trip to Punta Cana in Dominican Republic while the Lions began their 2023 NFL playoff run. The Lions faced the Rams in a wild-card game, where they inched past Los Angeles with a 24-23 victory in January.
“It was like, ‘yeah, we’re legit now. … We’ve got to do a Lions theme for our corn maze,'” Loretta told ESPN.
The Benjamin took the proper steps to get their theme approved by reaching out to the Lions organization. Only one question remained: What design would they use?
Loretta and Todd, owners of Choice Bar Market in Webberville, Michigan, have been die-hard Lions fans for quite some time.
Todd owns a shirt that depicts a lion’s face with a matching hat that says “GRIT.” Detroit adopted the slogan when Dan Campbell became…
