Baker and DPJ Combine for Top NFL Highlight of Week 6

Submitted by smotheringD on October 20th, 2021 at 8:14 AM

It's great to be a Michigan Wolverine playing in the NFL.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dr_yDAMYcAY

If you don't want to watch the other 14 highlights, Baker winds up for his 57 yard chuck at the 4:08 mark.

Booted Blue in PA

October 20th, 2021 at 8:58 AM ^

my b-i-l was a long time lions season ticket holder.  one year he and his buddies went to cleveland to see the lions play the browns.    he said the fans were booing the starting qb & calling for the back up in the 2nd qtr.   he said "it was like watching the lions play the lions at home".   I laughed my ass off.....   until that game, he didn't realize that there was another franchise as pitiful as detroit.

1VaBlue1

October 20th, 2021 at 9:09 AM ^

It's really interesting to listen to fans of other teams woe themselves about how bad their team is.  Right now, fans of the Washington Football Team think they have the worst franchise in the NFL and that things cannot be worse and will never get better.  Browns fans think they have the market cornered on awful teams.  Jacksonville fans are convinced that the Jags are the worst run team in the NFL.  Patriots fans are in misery because of a few losses.

Every time I tell one of these schmucks that I'm not interested in the woe-is-me tale of their suffering, I get a look of 'WTF, man, our team sucks'.  That's when I remind them that I'm a Lions fan and that they have no standing to speak of such things.

mGrowOld

October 20th, 2021 at 10:53 AM ^

FWIW I grew up in the shadow of the Silverdome.  My parents were Lions season ticket holders starting in the early 60's and through the mid 80's so I attended a LOT of Lions games between the years of 1968 - 1981 when I moved out west.  I saw a LOT of really shitty football with the exception of a few years (1970 & 1981).

I moved to Ohio in the late 80's and married an Ohio girl in 2009 who's family had Browns season tickets since 1948 (two years before they joined the NFL - had season tickets to the defunct AAFC) and we took them over that year.  I saw a LOT of shitty football from 2009 through this year - probably not ironically the ONLY year so far they've been good was last year and we couldnt go to the games due to Covid.

So I grew up an Lions fan and watched them from 1968 to 1981.  Then relocated to Cleveland and have been a fan (and season ticket holder) from 2009 - 2021.   I will put my resume for watching horrible, losing, shitty, professional football up against ANYBODY in the world.

Don

October 20th, 2021 at 12:45 PM ^

I realize this is irrelevant to younger Browns fans today, but as bad as the Browns have been since their glory days in the 1950s, they still have had many more top-notch seasons than the Lions have had over the past 60 years.

• 1964 NFL Champion

• NFL Championship game appearances in '65, '68, and '69

• AFC Championship game appearances in '86 (The Drive), '87 (The Fumble), and '89

Since the Lions' last NFL championship in '57, they have appeared in a conference championship game just once, when they got hamblasted by the Redskins 41-10 in 1991.

1VaBlue1

October 20th, 2021 at 9:13 AM ^

It's really unfortunate that Devin plays for Pittsburgh.  I don't know how the Steelers are viewed in your part of the country, but here in the Wash DC area Steelers fans are legion.  And they are forever arrogant and dismissive of all other views.  The sheer amount of transplants here have turned me against them.  I love it when they lose...

Human Torpedo

October 20th, 2021 at 4:26 PM ^

A top Wolverine WR and a QB who planted his college's flag in midfield at the Horseshoe after a win are becoming folk heroes in the state of Ohio. Shows anyone can achieve anything in life