OT: Former Lions Scott Mitchell and Damien Woody to appear on Biggest Loser
Has anything ever been so apropos?
Scott Mitchell is up to 366 pounds and currently works (WHY DOES HE HAVE TO WORK HE PLAYED 12 SEASONS IN THE NFL?!?) as a bill collector in Mapleton, Utah. Damien Woody weighs 388 pounds and is an ESPN analyst in New Jersey.
Correction: Every joke ever written about the Lions is here somewhere.
Well, Scott Mitchell always was a loser, so he's gotta be a favorite.
Listen, Woody has always been big (and good on him for wanting to change this), but come on Scott! Safe to say he has added over 150 pounds
The added 150 pounds shows where his NFL money went - he literally ate it.
How cute. He got a shirt with his SAT score.........
He was carrying a little bit extra during his days with the Lions but dang, he really let himself go since then.
the sequel in 20 years:
After winning 7 straight to enter the playoffs as the hottest NFL team and - to some people - a legitimate NFC playoff contender, I remember thinking that the Lions may have finally found a franchise QB. That team was an offensive juggernaut during the last 2/3 of the regular season with a slim (relatively speaking) Scott Mitchell at the helm. And then it all imploded. I just checked the box score of the 58-37 Philly playoff thrashing that year...completely forgot that none other than Rodney Peete beat the Lions. At one point, the game was 51-7. Goodbye, franchise QB. Hello Biggest Loser.
I'm not sure I'd knock the guy for working. If I was out of the league by 33 I would do something for 30 or 40 years. If makes more sense to me to have a low stress job to get you out of the house and involved in the community than to go into a high stess coaching or GM job.
He did make a lot of money in his career...
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=contracts
"Four years, $21 million potential value, $8 million guaranteed
Many NFL followers remember the Lions making a laughable mistake by signing Mitchell away from Miami after he made a mere seven starts in place of the injured Dan Marino in 1993. It was actually Mitchell's second Lions contract which was especially dubious. Mitchell was a relatively hot commodity when he landed a three-year, $11 million deal with a $5 million signing bonus from Detroit in '94, and the former Eagle Scout enjoyed a fine season in '95, with 4,338 passing yards, 32 touchdowns and a 92.3 passer rating. Coming off a mediocre '96 campaign -- a 4-10 record as starter and a 74.9 passer rating -- Detroit lavished Mitchell with an $8 million bonus to re-sign. He improved marginally in '97, and the Lions reached the playoffs behind Barry Sanders and his 2,053 rushing yards. After two poor games to begin the '98 season, Mitchell was replaced by Charlie Batch, marking the end of his time in Honolulu blue. But at least Mitchell never did this."
I tend to agree with you, but he's a bill collector. That's is awful work.
A 365 pound bill collector can be pretty intimidating...
The overwhelming majority of those guys completely piss away their money. If you earn $30 million before the age of 35 but then you never work again, you have to make that money last 50 or so years. Most of them can't make it last 10.
Maybe he's been trying to hone his Wayne Fontes impersonation.
I know the competition is heavy with the Lions. Millen's record should carry a lot of weight.
But don't you think his old teammate Dan Marino could have hooked him up with NutriSystem?
on the upcoming Scott Mitchell/ Lomas Brown let's settle old grudges cage match are going to be more even than I expected.
There's a bit too much ahole in this thread.
Scott Mitchell was the best thing around the Lions QB position for a while. Yes, maybe that's not saying much and there were better QBs out there but his successors on the Lions were pretty terrible until...Stafford?
Good for him to at least be trying to lose the weight regardless of him getting into that position in the first place.
I want to cry. Matt Stafford is the best Lions QB in my lifetime.
Why God Why am I a Lions fan?
August 6th, 2014 at 10:37 PM ^
Why is Mitchell "the Tonya Harding of the NFL"? Did I miss where he was guilty of something other than disappointing long-frustrated Lions fans?
By my recollection, Ms. Harding conspired to injure her primary rival in one of the most fascinating sports stories of the 1990s (in my mind, much better than the OJ Simpson story - since it was really a sports story). Then she obstructed justice, and to this day seems to portray herself as a victim in all of that nonsense. In contrast, Mr. Mitchell showed promise after being mentored by one of the best QBs of all time, showed early promise as the Lions' QB, then flamed out.
Yours seems an apples-to-chainsaws comparison. But you're a thoughtful poster, so I'm wondering if I'm missing some backstory here.