The Lions are one win away from going to the Super Bowl — and fans, in a show of support, are illuminating porches, neighborhoods and the city's tallest building in Honolulu blue.

And lights aren’t the only way fans are flaunting their enthusiasm.

They are coloring their hair blue to match wide receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown’s, and stirring the color into their favorite foods — and drinks. Last week, a Roseville artist sculpted snow into a 5-foot lion, and sprayed it Honolulu blue.

"We are pleased to show our Lions pride by lighting up our signature building in Honolulu blue," Kimberly Andrews Espy, the president of Wayne State University, said Wednesday as part of the announcement about the school's Old Main Building. "We are so excited to be on this ride with the Lions.”

Espy added that the roar at Ford Field has spread to the university.

And for that matter, it has spread to all parts of Detroit: from the top of the Renaissance Center, which was lit up, to above Michigan Central Station, where drones moved in formation to create a leaping lion, and in neighborhoods like Beacon Park, which has adopted blue lights.

It has spread to the suburbs, like Shelby Township, where residents have turned their porch lights blue.

And it has spread to the west side of the state, where Grand Rapids station WZZM-TV reported this week that fans are convincing others to purchase blue lights for their porches, too, and light them in advance of this week's NFC Championship game.

Lighting up landmarks — and porches — in special colors to mark special occasions is hardly new, and the Lions aren’t the only organization to go with blue.

After the University of Michigan won a national championship, blue lights flooded the Empire State Building.

In May, Detroit businessman Dan Gilbert’s son, Nick, died after a long bout with neurofibromatosis, and several Detroit buildings lit up in green and blue, the colors of the ribbon that represents the campaign aimed at curing the disease.

And in 2020, during the pandemic, the city lights shined red, white and blue to show support for healthcare employees as well as first responders and other essential workers, who risked their lives in the service of others.

Of course, years before that, Kmart, which opened its first store in Garden City and became a retail juggernaut, used to hold what it called "Blue Light Specials," in-store sales for limited times and items.

Kmart advertised its sale with a flashing blue light, and announced: “Attention, Kmart shoppers.” Eventually, the blue light specials were retired, although, before the company’s eventual collapse, executives kept trying to bring them back.

However, these Honolulu blue lights aren’t just to grab attention.

They represent, the Wayne State Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences said, the way people are "transcending differences and cheering for something bigger than themselves," calling the blue lights a "beacon of hope," for Detroiters and their dreams.

Contact Frank Witsil: 313-222-5022 or fwitsil@freepress.com.

This article originally appeared on Detroit Free Press: Detroit Lions fans add blue lights to homes, landmarks