I haven't the slightest clue as to what gives Detroit Lion fans hope each and every year. Prior to the season, my family and friends praise our revamped roster, speculating such things as "16 and 0" or "first playoff appearance since '99" or "1st super bowl ever". Each year a fresh new Simba is added to the Lion family, and with each addition, new hopes arise.
At least until Week 1.
Maybe Week 2 if they get an easy first game.
Charles Rogers! - bust. Mike Williams! - bust. Tatum Bell! - bust. Jon Kitna - ehhh, borderline bust. Going to my uncles house with the family on NFL Sunday begins in high spirits, chatting about the Lions' soon-to-be success. This usually lasts until about 5 minutes into the game when either the opposing team scores, or the Lions accumulate -42 yards of offense. Sometimes we make bets to see which one will happen first. Sadly, its more entertaining than the game.
Its sad that a day beginning with high hopes, laughter, and cheer regularly ends with supreme disappointment, explicit remarks in front of young children, and a change of the channel. Yet, each year we never expect this to happen again. What makes us expect a change? Over the passed 7 seasons, all under our fearless leader Matt Millen, the Lions are the proud owners of the NFL's worst win percentage (.277), have had zero winning seasons, zero playoff games, and never finished better than 3rd in the "phenomenal" NFC North.
I'm beginning to have 25% less things to worry about in Detroit Sports.
Monday, June 30, 2008
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3 comments:
Great article and I do agree with your points. I even like the "I just cant wait to be king" video you put up, but i mean cmon get one where the voice actually matches the video. You are better than that
Noted and fixed. Thanks for your comments.
so the reason why people beleive? this is because, although i love 1130 and 1270, the sports talk shows in Detroit actually give people hope. When Valenti and Foster or Stoney and Wojo give their opinions it immediately becomes the opinions of thousands of sports fans. Recently, 1270 am (Pat Kaputo) has praised the lions and predicts 9 wins this season and many are saying they have more talent this year? They dropped Shaun Rogers, released Kevin Jones who is better than any option they have now, and have Jon Kitna who is another year older. I wont beleive until they win 8 games. But radio is the reason we all beleive.
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