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Anyone else honestly feel bad for the Lions? (1 Viewer)
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Zow
Footballguy
I've met Millen a few times. He's a really good guy and did a lot of charity around the place I grew up. I feel badly for him because of the rap he's taken for this. Not saying it wasn't deserved, but it's natural to feel badly for people taking heat simply for doing a "job."
I do also feel badly for the fans. This game has to be incredibly depressing.
I do also feel badly for the fans. This game has to be incredibly depressing.
StuntMonkee
Footballguy
For the fans, and maybe for the players. . . .but not for the organization as a whole. Building a team that sucks this bad year after year is a string of bad decisions. They have 3 picks in the top 33 picks of the draft next year, and have had high picks in the draft for so many years that there's no reason that they should be a competitive team. But this "performance" today is simply disgusting, and irritating as a NFL fan. It's like watching my old highschool games and watching the state champs vs our school in the first year it was open.
Ozymandias
Footballguy
I feel sorry for the good players on that team (C.Johnson, Sims,etc.) who dreamed of getting to the NFL and saw the dream turn to ####.
Zow
Footballguy
Kevin Smith also looks like a very solid rookie too
StuntMonkee
Footballguy
Jesse Mcartney at a NFL game halftime show. . . . .insult to injury. . . . .point proven that the lions simply don't get it! LOL!
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Andy Herron
Footballguy
You can't help from feeling bad for them. It's sad. An expansion team shouldn't even be this inept.
hellz_fireflies
Footballguy
They are called the Detroit Kittens now...not the Lions.
blue&silver
Footballguy
Not for the team --- but as a fan you should feel sorry for me
Doctor Detroit
Please remove your headgear
SKribbles
Footballguy
This wasn't funny the last time you tried to use it either.
hellz_fireflies
Footballguy
And will be for rest of your life! LMAOI've felt sorry for Lions fans all my life.
Reg Lllama of Brixton
Footballguy
How many times are you going to make this same joke?
Doctor Detroit
Please remove your headgear
Not sure but it wasn't even funny the first time.
Boston
Footballguy
I'm fascinated by the Lions. It's truly amazing that a team that has had a top 10 pick on a consistent basis can be that bad. It's almost impossible for a non-expansion team to be as bad as Detroit is. They are easily one of the worst NFL organizations in NFL history (or sports history for that matter) and I was just blown away at how awful they were today (and I was expecting them to be real awful).
hellz_fireflies
Footballguy
And how many times did you read it here from me????
Reg Lllama of Brixton
Footballguy
At least twice.
Doctor Detroit
Please remove your headgear
hellz_fireflies
Footballguy
Really..this is my third post here..read them all and count again!
wholligans
Footballguy
The Lions are not one of the worst teams in NFL history. Here is a comparison.Lions have had 34 seasons above .500 since 1930 and have 4 NFL Championships.Steelers have 32 seasons above .500 since 1933 and 5 NFL Championships. Does this make the Steelers one of the worst franchises in NFL history?
Doctor Detroit
Please remove your headgear
Check my link Mr Euclid.
Pat Patriot
Footballguy
On the subject of bad decisions. How bad must Drew Stanton be that they brought in Daunte Culpepper? I dont even know which move I am criticizing, bringing in Culpepper or drafting Stanton in the 2nd round.
hellz_fireflies
Footballguy
Give it up ..you know your wrong and the other poster too.. Have a happy!
thatguythere
Footballguy
Don't feel bad for us Lions fans...we all can jump ship anytime we want. True fans will stick with their team through thick and thin. Pretty @#(# thin right now, but I will never root for another team.
Yes we stink, but how much worse can it get....and this is what we have been saying for years.
Yes we stink, but how much worse can it get....and this is what we have been saying for years.
Boston
Footballguy
I'm talking about the current model (i.e. the Matt Millen era). It's easily one of the most mismanaged eras ever. There have been plenty of teams who have had a bad run including the Steelers, Forty Niners and Patriots. Yet to watch the Lions get worse every year is amazing. Just when you think they can't get worse they take it to another level.
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Doctor Detroit
Please remove your headgear
First post in this thread +hellz_fireflies said:
+hellz_fireflies said:
Not that I care or anything I just love how dumb people are. Happy thanksgiving gb.hellz_fireflies said:
Raider Nation
Devil's Advocate
Has anyone mentioned that they should be called the Detroit Kittens?
SKribbles
Footballguy
chook
Footballguy
Oh man, you have to trademark that one before other people begin to use it!!
thatguythere
Footballguy
Exactly. I don't care how much confidence you have in yourself...at some point an intelligent person takes a step back and sees that things aren't going to work out and more time is only making things much worse. Millen made his own legacy by sticking it out and being a grinder.....it may have worked during his football career but he will go down as the worst NFL GM experiment ever. This is Millen's team you watched today, don't be fooled into thinking anything else.
Doctor Detroit
Please remove your headgear
lol X infinity
PizzaDeliveryGuy
extra sausage
Wouldn't it be th Detroit Cubs anyway?
wholligans
Footballguy
Yeah, I understand your comments related to the Millen era, but that you stated they were one of the worst in NFL history. I have been a Lions fan for over 30 years. Other than a couple of years in the 1980's and the Barry Sanders era, it has been a rough 30+ years as a fan.Boston said:
TidesofWar
Footballguy
I think Leno is going to use it on his next show, along with "Door Matt" MillenOh man, you have to trademark that one before other people begin to use it!!
bcr8f
Footballguy
Leno did it constantly 8 years ago when they sucked. Then they signed Millen.I think Leno is going to use it on his next show, along with "Door Matt" MillenOh man, you have to trademark that one before other people begin to use it!!
The other side of the coin is that if the fans will stick with a team through thick and thin, there's no reason to field a good team. The fans will still show, will still pay good money for tix etc. If the fans refused to support a team that was horrendous year in/year out, then it would force the owners to change.thatguythere said:
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Ozymandias
Footballguy
And, if you compare the Lions to the city of Detroit, the Lions look like winners. At least no one dies.
Slinger
Footballguy
I don't feel bad for the Lions. I feel bad for the men in this country who couldn't afford to buy a turkey for their families today. Every player on the Lions roster make more money than 99 percent of us. Coaches and front office too. They can play like the Detroit Kittens, but still come home to a nice house and a smoking hot woman.
In regards to their fans, if they're the exact same people who root for the Red Wings, and I'm thinking they are, then I can't really say I feel bad for them either. They're cocky and rude just like any other big-market city. They'll probably throw batteries at opposing teams fans once they have any ounce of success.
And don't even get me started on the hand outs (tax payer's money) that the people in the District of Columbia are considering giving to the big-three car companies in this country, which happen to be located in Detroit.
In short, it's the suffering that is Detroit that is keeping me alive.
Happy Thanksgiving ya'll.
In regards to their fans, if they're the exact same people who root for the Red Wings, and I'm thinking they are, then I can't really say I feel bad for them either. They're cocky and rude just like any other big-market city. They'll probably throw batteries at opposing teams fans once they have any ounce of success.
And don't even get me started on the hand outs (tax payer's money) that the people in the District of Columbia are considering giving to the big-three car companies in this country, which happen to be located in Detroit.
In short, it's the suffering that is Detroit that is keeping me alive.
Happy Thanksgiving ya'll.
Touchdown Syndrome
Footballguy
As a long-time Jets fan who suffered through the legendary Rich Kotite "era" (a coach, by the way, that made Rod Marinelli look like Bill freakin' Walsh), I do feel kind of bad for this year's Lions.
- Ex-mayor in sex scandal and charged with perjury
- Big 3 healthcare providers, er, I mean automakers on Capitol Hill begging for bailout money
- Combined crime rate more than three times greater than the national average
- Perennial double-digit unemployment and high taxation
I'd say that the Lions' troubles are pretty low on the totem pole right now of the problems Detroit is facing. At least they have the best professional hockey team that money can buy.
- Big 3 healthcare providers, er, I mean automakers on Capitol Hill begging for bailout money
- Combined crime rate more than three times greater than the national average
- Perennial double-digit unemployment and high taxation
I'd say that the Lions' troubles are pretty low on the totem pole right now of the problems Detroit is facing. At least they have the best professional hockey team that money can buy.
WampusCat43
Footballguy
That's what we've been saying down here in Cincinnati for 20 years. Unfortunately, it ain't working.
Stompin' Tom Connors
Footballguy
Fair bit of toolishness going on in here over a bad joke about the team's moniker.
In today's big money pro sports era, it's a shame that the fans, who have put up with a patehtic team for so long, can't vote with their wallets. In most other venues, if consumers don't like a product, they switch to another brand, forcing executives to put a better product in the marketplace or risk going under.
Lions fans have been supporting this team through all the thick and thin -- well, OK, through the vastly thin -- times. If they just stopped going to games, rather than serve as a wake-up call, Ford would sell the team, and they would move to some other market whose fans will barely be interested after the novelty wears off, ike Tupelo or Pierre ND, or LA.
In today's big money pro sports era, it's a shame that the fans, who have put up with a patehtic team for so long, can't vote with their wallets. In most other venues, if consumers don't like a product, they switch to another brand, forcing executives to put a better product in the marketplace or risk going under.
Lions fans have been supporting this team through all the thick and thin -- well, OK, through the vastly thin -- times. If they just stopped going to games, rather than serve as a wake-up call, Ford would sell the team, and they would move to some other market whose fans will barely be interested after the novelty wears off, ike Tupelo or Pierre ND, or LA.
zamboni
Footballguy
As a longtime Jets fan, I can certainly feel for Lions diehards.
The Jets turned around their franchise, so with the right hirings in the post-Millen era, perhaps things can conceivably change like they did here in NY (see Atlanta as well). Those hiring decisions, more than anything, will go a long way towards getting the franchise on the right track.
The Jets turned around their franchise, so with the right hirings in the post-Millen era, perhaps things can conceivably change like they did here in NY (see Atlanta as well). Those hiring decisions, more than anything, will go a long way towards getting the franchise on the right track.
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