Just saw this come across my twitter feed. Apparently before player introductions, the Lions unveiled NFL Champions banners from 1935, 1952, 1953 & 1957. Division championship banners from 1935, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1957, 1983, 1991 and 1993.
And the strange thing is they unveiled playoff appearance banners. Here is the one from last year. I think that is kind of......sad. Participation banners. Ouch.
Then they went out and played like they have since 1957.*
The lions become a little bit
The lions become a little bit more like little brother every year now.
All in for some manball.
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Exactly
Exactly
All in for some manball.
the yankees count world
the yankees count world series wins since the dawn of time. why shouldnt the NFL?
I don't think he was talking
I don't think he was talking about the championship banners when he said "sad". He meant the playoff appearance ones. Which, yes, sad
I'm sure the Lions will have
I'm sure the Lions will have all their 9th place ribbons on display as well.
(That being said, I'm watching the Lions on Fox right now. I guess I'll never learn.)
I'm waiting for Schwartz
To hang himself after watching Stafford look like Andrew Maxwell today. This is ugly. Lions should be up by 3 touchdowns right now.
This is like hanging your
This is like hanging your report card on the refrigerator and it has a bunch of Ds and Fs. Sad really
Good to see the Lions pissing
Good to see the Lions pissing the bed today. Stafford is in a shell this entire second half aiming everything instead of throwing.
It doesn't help that they're
It doesn't help that they're dropping everything under the sun, either.
Playoff banners?! Really?
Playoff banners?! Really? What's next? Capri-Suns after the games?
Good grief. How did we manage
Good grief. How did we manage that?
YAY!!!!
Who wants ice cream?
Never forget our Vets!! Some gave all, all gave some!
Not judging the veracity of having playoff banners...but
If you're going to do it, It is a nice touch to match the logo used at the time with the appearances. It makes me sad that my favorite Lions logo doesn't get a banner.
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"The Michigan fanbase: a cynical, Eeyorish bunch even in the best of times."
Right direction
After the "Curse of Bobby Layne," which was probably just an astute prediction by Layne that WCF, who had just traded Layne, would screw up the Lions for fifty years, the Lions need to remember that they were once one of the two or three best franchises in the NFL.
I'm all for anything that might help reinstall a winning attitude in the Lions.
I'm sorry, but...
Hearing champions and lions in the same breath makes me giggle like a school girl.
Where did they put the Super
Where did they put the Super Bowl banners?
Ha Ha!
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shut up poophead
shut up poophead
If you don't like Michigan you are a peasant
Very Much OT but... RGIII
Good grief.......
Would love to have an updated chat with the "ZOMG THE REDSKINS GAVE UP TOO MANY DRAFT PICKS !!!111!!!1" crowd. And yes there were many of you LMAO...
Even with his impressive
Even with his impressive showing today, I still feel they gave up way too much for RGIII
I don't know who's hair is better, John Stamos circa Full House or Denard
GO BLUE
I cheer for the Lions
and am glad they hung up the Champ. banners, but the banners just for making the playoffs???...that's weak.
Chuck Norris wears Brady Hoke pajamas.
Take your time, Willie Clay
It only took him 49 years to get around to hanging these banners.
"[T]here were a lot of people predicting glorious heights for Rich; mostly the same people who are predicting doom and gloom [for Hoke]. Excuse me if I doubt their prognostication skills." -- M-Wolverine
Playoff banners
Did they really hang up ones for other years besides just 2011?. I know there are the banners with the years they made the playoffs which isn't too uncommon. I am pretty sure other teams and organizations have done similar things. I know Indiana Hoosiers hangs up banners with various years of accomplishments such as Sweet 16 appearences.
We're not teaching them about sports, we're teaching them about life!
Wild Card Pennants
Is there really such a difference between a playoff banner and a Wild Card Pennant in baseball? Especially when a divisional champ can have a 9-7 record, the equivalent of an 85-game winner in baseball? I don't think it's that sad, especially when the bar is as low as it is to win a division against three other teams.
NFL Championships
should have their own individual banner for each year.
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