OT - Lions

It could have something to do with it but WC Jr. has the same ancestry.

Peyton Manning and Jeff Daniels also lifted the curse last year

https://www.wxyz.com/sports/jeff-daniels-peyton-manning-try-to-exorcise-lions-curse-in-peytons-places

I've never been one to be afraid of the end times. Everyone thinks they're living in the end of days. But now I'm starting to believe.

If armageddon is indeed going down at least we have something to cheer about

"Gary (Danielson) had five interceptions, and Billy Sims fumbled on the goal line. We had so many opportunities to put them away. It then came down to me trying to make a field goal from about the 44-yard line with seconds left."                                                                                                                                                        Eddie Murray, 2021

Funny story about that game.  I was a little 8 year old boy watching that game with my late Father and my uncle at my uncle's house.  I was devestated when Eddie Murray missed that field goal and I was crying.  My dad and uncle start laughing about it and I start yelling at them while crying and they said, "This is typical just get used to it."  

I learned 40 years ago at a very early age that being a Lions fan was all about being devestated.  My dad has been gone for 36 years (died when I was 11), but he was prophetic that evening.  I still talk about that game with my uncle to this day and we laugh about it.  One other thing about that game is I remember Head Coach Monte Clark praying on the sideline just before Eddie Murray attempted that field goal. 

I hope this is the year they can finally break through, if not it cannot be any worse than that first devestating loss I experienced, however there have been probably 168 others like it since that first one.

I've seriously been considering getting a Motor City Dan Campbell tattoo on my back. 

I love that man almost as much as I love Harbaugh 

I've heard the words to the fight song in bits and pieces but I never thought about committing it to memory because they didn't ring true.  Singing those words and thinking about the same old Lions created cognitive dissonance.

I thought the same thing when, I think it was Reynolds, was running down the sideline at the end of the game and stayed in bounds to keep the clock running.  Also when, this might have been Reynolds too, made that block to spring Amon-Ra for the touchdown.

They are playing way better than any Lions team I've ever followed.

That was an amazing play. First two downs resigned me to a FG, and then Goff hits St. Brown and he’s got some space so there’s a flicker of hope, but there are a bunch of defenders guarding the line to gain…

And then a silver blur knifes in from off-screen right and absolutely destroys the last defender and St. Brown has the corner, the sideline, and the winning touchdown.

When I saw that block I yelped. Louder than the subsequent td. 

What a fun team. 

He's already one of the best coaches in the league. 

He should get paid. I'd be cool with the Lions giving him a lifetime contract

I jest but only slightly 

No

this team would give the ‘91 team a run.  they had a good O-line with Glover, Lomas, Utley, Andolsek.  many offensive weapons with Barry, Moore, Perriman. D was great with Ball, Spindler, Owens, Spielman, Blades, Crockett and White.  special teams were great with steady Eddie, Mel Gray.

My God, man, I hope they bring you another championship 

Damn Medford - you may be the real MGrowOld of this board!!! (Or make that MGrewOld!)

Joe Schmidt, Jack Christiansen, Yale Lary, Jim David, Hopalong Cassidy and Bobby Layne (don't forget the y). Stayed very good until the AFL was formed and lost their draft picks to AFL teams except for Nick Eddy, who they signed for half of Dearborn and was promptly injured, never playing a down in the regular season.