Question: What was the last name of the explorer who founded the city where the Lions played before the Silverdome?

however, the club was still struggling off - field. one of the bears' biggest problems was its lack of support (both on and off the field) in melbourne, the location of most of its away matches. in mid-1996, the struggling fitzroy football club collapsed due to financial pressures and was seeking to merge its assets with another club. when a merger with north melbourne in forming the north fitzroy kangaroos failed to win the support of the other afl clubs, a deal for a merger was done between fitzroy and the bears. the new team was known as the brisbane lions, based at the gabba, with northey as the coach of the merged club. as such, the history of the brisbane bears as an individual entity ended after the 1996 season, with ten seasons of competition and the third - place finish in 1996 as its best performance. the bears last match as a separate entity was a preliminary final on saturday 21 september 1996 at the melbourne cricket ground (where the bears played their first vfl / afl game). it was against north melbourne, their first and last ever opponents, the bears lost by 38 points to north who would go on to win the premiership that year. when the team came off the mcg, the bears were finished after a short and troubled existence. <SEP> the largest crowd to ever gather at the silverdome was on september 18, 1987 for mass with pope john paul ii, with a reported attendance of 93,682 -- just shading the record of 93,173 set at the silverdome on march 29, 1987 for wrestlemania iii. another notable audience attendance record had earlier been broken on april 30, 1977, when the english rock band led zeppelin played in front of 76,229 fans at the silverdome. this was, at the time, a new world record attendance for a solo indoor attraction, beating the 75,962 that the who attracted there on december 6, 1975. the detroit pistons also set numerous nba attendance records during their time at the silverdome; regular season, 61,983 vs. boston, january 29, 1988; playoffs, 41,732, vs. l.a. lakers, june 16, 1988. <SEP> He rose from a modest beginning in Acadia in 1683 as an explorer, trapper, and a trader of alcohol and furs, and he achieved various positions of political importance in the colony. He was the commander of Fort de Buade in St. Ignace, Michigan in 1694. In 1701, he founded Fort Pontchartrain du Détroit which became the city of Detroit, which he commanded until 1710. Antoine Laumet de la Mothe, sieur de Cadillac (/ ˈkædɪlæk /, French: (kadijak); March 5, 1658 -- October 16, 1730), usually referred to as Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac (also spelled Motte), was a French explorer and adventurer in New France which stretched from Eastern Canada to Louisiana on the Gulf of Mexico. Between 1710 and 1716, he was the governor of Louisiana, although he did not arrive in that territory until 1713. <SEP> The Lions moved to the newly constructed Silverdome and have played their home games indoors ever since (at Ford Field since 2002). On Thanksgiving Day, November 28, 1974, after over 35 years, the Lions played their final game in Tiger Stadium, where they lost to the Denver Broncos 31 -- 27 in front of 51,157, amidst snow flurries and a 21 - point Broncos 3rd quarter. <SEP> The 1957 National Football League championship game was the 25th annual championship game, held on December 29 at Briggs Stadium in Detroit, Michigan.