October 15th, 2023 at 7:13 PM ^
ROAR!!!!
October 15th, 2023 at 8:38 PM ^
FORWARD DOWN THE FIELD!!!
A CHARGING TEAM THAT WILL NOT YIELD!!!!
...
October 15th, 2023 at 8:41 PM ^
AND WHEN THE BLUE AND SIVER WAVE~
STAND AND CHEER THE BRAVE!!!
October 15th, 2023 at 10:14 PM ^
I often imagine this verse as:
AND WHEN THE BLUE AND SILVER WAVE
DANCES ON YOUR GRAVE
October 16th, 2023 at 1:05 AM ^
RAH! RAH! RAH!
October 15th, 2023 at 8:48 PM ^
That's what I was doing when Jameson caught that touchdown, ROAR!!! That catch meant more than just 6 points for Jameson...
October 15th, 2023 at 9:35 PM ^
Also, is anyone else getting the feeling the Lions will end up hosting the Rams in the playoffs?
October 15th, 2023 at 9:38 PM ^
As long as it's not the Seahawks. Something about that team makes the Lions always play their D- game against them. I think we could take Stafford and co.
October 15th, 2023 at 7:14 PM ^
The Cubs and the Red Sox have won the World Series - the greatest active hex is now being challenged.
October 15th, 2023 at 7:57 PM ^
Toronto Maple Leaf fans may feel differently about that greatest active hex.
October 15th, 2023 at 8:09 PM ^
Math not my strong suit but 1957 is close to ten years longer ago than 1967, Leafs last Cup,
October 16th, 2023 at 8:01 AM ^
Math not my strong suit but 1957 is close to ten years longer ago than 1967, Leafs last Cup,
Wait….
yep, I got that too.
October 15th, 2023 at 8:37 PM ^
The Red Sox had the curse of the Bambino The Cubs had the billy goat curse. What curse have the Lions had?
October 15th, 2023 at 8:38 PM ^
Something to do with Bobby Lane.
October 15th, 2023 at 8:50 PM ^
Jeff Daniels and Peyton Manning took care of the curse last season. 13-3 since…
October 15th, 2023 at 9:28 PM ^
The legend has it that the Lions won the championship in 1957 then wound up trading Bobby Layne in 1958, their All Pro QB. He literally put the curse on the Lions stating they would never win again after trading him to Pittsburgh.
One thing to note, Bobby Layne was a party animal at a time when it was truly acceptable but the new coach who took over was not endeared with the off the field incidents. Thus the potential reason for the abrupt trade in '58. But again Layne on his way out, "cursed" the franchise stating they would not win again for another 50 years... (Unfortunate it has extended to 65 years...)
October 15th, 2023 at 10:27 PM ^
If unfamiliar with "the curse," take a look:
October 16th, 2023 at 8:03 AM ^
Bobby Layne. If you keep spelling his name wrong, how can we get away from the curse? Respect!
October 16th, 2023 at 10:24 AM ^
Not to tarnish a legend but this is beyond tarnishing:
Former Packer Paul Hornung, who played against Layne in the 13-13 game revealed in his 2004 autobiography “Golden Boy”:
“In the second game of the 1958 season, Layne did something peculiar against our team in Green Bay. The Lions were 3 ½ point favorites and as Layne told me later, he had bet on them to cover the spread. With the score tied at 13 late in the fourth quarter the field goal team came onto the field to win the game but Layne shushed them off. Layne then overthrew his receiver in the end zone (note: this fact is wrong)and the game ended in a tie. It was obvious he had bet on the game. Layne later told me he was confident he could get a touchdown and win the game that way. Bobby gambled more than anybody who ever played football period. How did the league go all those years without ever getting him?”
Investigative reporter Dan Moldea wrote in his book “Interference: How Organized Crime Influences Professional Football” that Detroiter Donald “Dice” Dawson, a convicted gambler, told him that he had placed bets with Layne and that Layne “had fixed games or shaved points in no fewer than seven games over a period of four years while Layne played with the Detroit Lions and later the Pittsburgh Steelers.”
In Layne's defense of his alcoholism: Karras said that he heard that Layne’s lack of sleep was due to fear of sleeping, because when Bobby was a kid he lost his parents in a car accident and spent an entire night stuck in the overturned car with their dead bodies.
October 15th, 2023 at 8:40 PM ^
? Steve Owens - Heisman trophy winner who blew out his knee at old Tiger Stadium ...
October 15th, 2023 at 8:58 PM ^
The Ford Family.
October 15th, 2023 at 9:46 PM ^
The Ford ownership curse! LOL!
October 15th, 2023 at 11:08 PM ^
The Ford family
October 16th, 2023 at 12:33 AM ^
The Ford Family ownership
October 16th, 2023 at 9:10 AM ^
The curse of the Fords!
October 15th, 2023 at 9:04 PM ^
The day the Lions win the Super Bowl is the day the universe collapses in on itself. You don't want that...
October 15th, 2023 at 9:09 PM ^
I can live with that.
October 16th, 2023 at 1:42 AM ^
I think the phrase you’re looking for is “worth it” lol.
October 16th, 2023 at 4:13 AM ^
none of us will live, but if I see it, I can die happily
October 16th, 2023 at 7:40 AM ^
It happened in my lifetime. I was one year old.
This does feel very odd. We stomp IU. Red Wings beat the Lightning. Lions beat the Bucs and have the best record in the league. And as the cherry on top, Sparty gags. It gets no better.
October 15th, 2023 at 9:11 PM ^
frozen margaritas down in hell, too. same day. same result. end times caused by a football game. it has been prophesied for ages.
October 15th, 2023 at 10:12 PM ^
Violence escalating in the Levant, threatening regional conflict, which could possibly lead to global war? Armageddon at hand?
If the Lions win the NFC, better get your house in order. Your spiritual house, I mean.
October 15th, 2023 at 11:26 PM ^
A Lions/Browns Super Bowl would be like the Zuul and Vinz Clortho getting together.
October 15th, 2023 at 7:19 PM ^
13-3 in their last 16 games
Best stretch since '61-62
October 15th, 2023 at 8:51 PM ^
and you got a new avatar. very nice, DB.
October 15th, 2023 at 8:59 PM ^
Could we play him at Fullback please on short yardage plays?
October 15th, 2023 at 9:04 PM ^
interesting question. he looks to be a bit too long and lanky for a true FB, but reasonable minds could differ on that.
October 16th, 2023 at 11:21 AM ^
Can I join the club?
October 15th, 2023 at 7:19 PM ^
Lions have an argument to make that they are the best team in the league right now. San Fran losing today and obviously the Eagles are out there but the case can be made. Who would've thought!
October 15th, 2023 at 7:20 PM ^
Lots of us were drowning in the Honolulu Blue Kool Aid this past off-season
October 15th, 2023 at 7:39 PM ^
Eagles are not out there anymore.
Lions #1 in the NFL.
October 15th, 2023 at 8:45 PM ^
Could you imagine how good the lions would be now if they had made even halfway decent first round picks in this past draft?
October 15th, 2023 at 8:48 PM ^
But they got two first rounders in the second round.
October 15th, 2023 at 9:31 PM ^
Branch and laporta are good players, certainly better than the 2 first rounders, but they were both projected to the second round and would have been picked there regardless of whether we screwed up our first round picks or not.
laporta was actually projected to go much later.
the Gibbs pick feels like a darko pick to me where much better players went later and players who were projected to get drafted higher.
October 15th, 2023 at 9:42 PM ^
Projections don't mean shit. Gibbs was going to go at 15 if the Lions didn't take him at 12, and Campbell was going to go somewhere in the 20s. Both of that information was leaked by teams after the draft, unlike the bogus "projections" made by idiots like Mel Kiper (if he's that good at evaluating talent, how come he's never been a GM anywhere? Oh wait, Matt Millen literally picked his best available player every single year and look how that turned out...)
October 15th, 2023 at 9:50 PM ^
I wish someone would’ve jumped the lions to pick both those players. I don’t see how either will be a difference maker.
October 16th, 2023 at 4:15 AM ^
I don’t see how either will be a difference maker.
that’s why you’re typing on a computer and not running an NFL team
October 15th, 2023 at 10:45 PM ^
Gibbs has been very good in his somewhat limited time. Darko was never good.
October 16th, 2023 at 8:01 AM ^
You realize the projections are made by people who aren't good enough to actually work in the NFL, right?? Same as the recruiting rankings, the coaches have a way higher budget to hire the best people (coaches) to actually analyze potential players, rather than hire guys who have a journalism degree and get excited writing about recruiting.