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 fervent motivation here: selling tickets.

Getting your games blacked out in todays NFL is nothing short of incredibly embarassing and each blocked broadcast is a black eye for the organization.

The season is clearly a wash at this point, the young guys should be taking these snaps. Orlovsky has gotten a handful of starts, doesn’t look like a franchise QB. Stanton should be getting his shot, he’s a second round draft pick and a rookie for all intents and purposes and the Lions should be evaluating whether or not they need to draft a ‘franchise’ QB in the draft.

In the end, this is a business and the name of the game is selling tickets and generating advertising revenue on TV and in the Lions Weekly. Culpepper can sell the sexy memories and make the fans think of the days when he and Randy Moss lit up the NFC North with a vicious passing attack, we’re resurrecting the dead here.