I’m old enough to remember the Barry Sanders days when a wild card berth and the occasional division title was a realistic possibility but I’m young enough to have not fully appreciated those days and I often find myself straining to remember what it is like to have a good football team in Detroit. Sure, we always hope the Lions will win but I have a hard time remembering what it was like expecting the Lions to win. I remember some of those great years but in a way shielded by my naïveté at the time. That’s why I particularly enjoyed Josh Hill’s look back at the 1991 Lions (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3). I got an even better reminder of what it was like in the days of the “good” Lions earlier this week.

(more…)