Archive for October, 2008

31 Oct

Feature on AOL Sports Fanhouse, “Behind Enemy Lines”:

Sportz Assassin featured myself and the Bengals lead blogger. We talk about how awesome it is to root for winless teams and together we ponder how on Earth our coaches still have jobs!
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Here’s a sample:

Sportz Assassin: Its no secret that both teams’ fans have some hate toward the ownership. Both are family run and [...]

29 Oct

Still Hush Hush On Culpepper

He apparently canceled a meeting and workout with another team, and apparently the Lions didn’t even flinch when he wanted a 2 year contract (WTF?!?!?) but still nothing has officially happened and the team and the unsigned free agent haven’t said a word.
So we don’t know what’s going to happen. What I would like as [...]

28 Oct

All Signs Point To Daunte as a Lion. Is This To Win Games Or Sell Tickets?

This is to sell tickets.
Don’t get your hopes up about winning much, Culpepper as at best completely unproven in the wake of his last productive snaps being 4 years behind him. BUT, this will sell some jersey’s and, as I’m sure the Lions upper management hopes, put some home games back on TV. And really, that’s the [...]

28 Oct

Rumor: Dante Culpepper Is In Town A The Lions May Be Offering Him a Contract

Word on the street is that the Chiefs were interested in him as well, he’s turning down that opportunity to come to Detroit as he feels he has the opportunity to be a starter here. 
Is there any gas left in the tank? He’s a salty dog that was good in the NFC North and just [...]

26 Oct

Fire Marinelli.

Time to go champ. Can we say it any more clearly? : 

Special teams was a disaster, the defense just wasn’t there in the second half of the game and our offense couldn’t get it done in the clutch.

I’m over Dan Orlovsky. His numbers are OKAY, he pulled an 88.2 QB rating mainly because he doesn’t [...]

25 Oct

Joe Barry : Working on “Above the Neck Stuff”

From Freep.com
“The effort is there, but the above-the-neck stuff is sometimes not there,” Barry said. “We have a little lapse mentally, a missed tackle here or there. That’s not due to a lack of effort or a bust. It’s just simply not making a play.
“That happens all of the time. I mean, around the league [...]

24 Oct

What on Earth Am I Going to Write About?!?

We won’t see the ’skins game. This is annoying, so unless I actually spend money and go, I’m going to have to just listen to it on 97.1FM until the NFL Replay Airs on the NFL Network.
This is annoying and frustrating, maybe the Jaguar fans can offer some advice. 
For the trivia minded, the Lions have [...]

23 Oct

We Will Not Get To Watch The Lions vs Skins On TV

As of this morning, there are about 6000 tickets still available. The Lions have until 1:00pm this afternoon to sell out barring an extension from the NFL. 
***UPDATE***
They didn’t sell the tickets. So there will be no television coverage locally.
We can listen to the game on 97.1 fm and that’s it.

22 Oct

“It’s Just Sports” article & Why I Think Going Winless Is Like, IMPOSSIBLE (But We Might Do it)

(yeah, Pat acknowledges he’s getting some mileage out of the Obama Posters). 
We can make this season a success by making it a major failure. The more they lose, the more we need to show up and cheer. In 20 years, people will still be talking about this team, linking to Youtube clips of Orlovsky’s safety [...]

21 Oct

At 0-6, You Have To Consider It a Matter Of Talent.

 
The bottom line is that we lack talent on both sides of the ball. 0-6 is a rough, rough way to start the season, and yet, for us it’s also a familiar one. In fact, we just did this 2 years ago during Rod’s first season. 
The problem with writing about the Lions is that it [...]

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