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A pop quiz for all the Detroit Lion cheerleading squad.
What fourth year wide-out is still characterized by using excuses?
What third year Tackle mimics a fairly tale of the cowardly Lion looking for some nerve in the Wizard of Oz?
What can’t miss QB who can take a hit, will lead the league in interceptions this year?
What aging left tackle will be the first to visit his QB in the emergency room ...
Being a Lion fan represents a feeling much like a salmon swimming upstream if one is going to have any fun at all.
So how did it ever get this bad?
Is there really any ôhopeö in our collective future?
If one consults with Bleacher Report authors, one would be inclined to think that the Super Bowl is just around the next corner. But turning into that slippery and speculative corner can sometimes ...
Watching the new Lions coach Jim Schwartz dodge and weave at his weekly press conference tells me a lot about the culture of incompetence and perpetual "wimp-hood" of those types who have been employed by Bill Ford Sr. over his 45-plus years of ownership of the Detroit Lions.
Schwartz unleashed a barrage of excuses, rationalizations, and what ifs, while kicking the can down the road of some imagined future.
When asked about ...
How does one really understand the beautiful dreamer of professional sport?
If you have not guessed it, I am talking about the fantasy elite who remain ever vigilant to squeeze every drop of blood out of their pet rock. In this case, the "pet rock" is the perpetual comedy known the Detroit Lions football.
But I suppose the metaphor transcends our local team, making it ubiquitous in the world of sport.
So ...