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Username: Gnome
Post Number: 2173
Registered: 08-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, November 27, 2008 - 7:09 am: |    |
As we rub the sleep from our eyes, flip on the laptop and curl up with a steaming cup of coffee, today our hearts turn to the Glory Days of Briggs Stadium and Bobby Layne, of Joe Schmidt and Wayne Walker.
Some may drift back to Doak or Dutch, Barry or Billy, but all of our dreams are wrapped in blue and silver.
This year has been glorious in its horridosity. The Lions have devolved to a hideous example of how bad things can get.
So today...against the 10-1 Titans, will the 0-11 Lions win? Even compete? Or will the Blue and Silver hand over the ball before kickoff and walk away?
I predict: Titans 48 Lions 6
Prize: a digital trophy engraved with your name. Suitable for framing in the Lower 48 |
Izzyindetroit
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Username: Izzyindetroit
Post Number: 137
Registered: 07-2008
| | Posted on Thursday, November 27, 2008 - 7:26 am: | |
Tennessee - 35, 21 points in the first quarter and then 14 more later in the game from a bad tackle or broken run.
Lions - 20, 14 points off passing TD's and then 2 field goals. |
Riley484
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Username: Riley484
Post Number: 12
Registered: 05-2008
| | Posted on Thursday, November 27, 2008 - 8:02 am: | |
24-21 Titans. I'm going against the trend and say the Lions play close at home. Plus, the Titans don't really blow anyone out. |
Awfavre
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Username: Awfavre
Post Number: 300
Registered: 08-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, November 27, 2008 - 8:03 am: | |
Titans 42
Lions 16 (1 Calvin Johnson TD & 3 Jason Hanson field goals). |
Awfavre
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Username: Awfavre
Post Number: 301
Registered: 08-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, November 27, 2008 - 8:05 am: | |
I can’t believe I used my 300th post on the Lions….
Oh hell, it’s just a number.  |
Rjk
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Username: Rjk
Post Number: 1315
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, November 27, 2008 - 8:11 am: | |
The Lions dig down deep on turkey day and pull an upset. Hanson kicks a 50 yard FG in OT to win it.
Lions 27
Titans 24 |
Townonenorth
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Username: Townonenorth
Post Number: 384
Registered: 10-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, November 27, 2008 - 8:41 am: | |
Lions 21
Titans 38
Sorry, I just can't drink the Kook-Aid. Would have been Kool-Aid, but there's nothing cool about being 0-16. |
Gary
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Username: Gary
Post Number: 369
Registered: 02-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, November 27, 2008 - 9:45 am: | |
Titans 35
Lions 10 |
D_mcc
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Username: D_mcc
Post Number: 1679
Registered: 12-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, November 27, 2008 - 11:09 am: | |
Titans 34
Lions 24 |
Detroitstar
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Username: Detroitstar
Post Number: 1393
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, November 27, 2008 - 11:31 am: | |
31- 12, all 12 Lions points will be Jason Hanson field goals. |
Ragtoplover59
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Username: Ragtoplover59
Post Number: 394
Registered: 09-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, November 27, 2008 - 3:30 pm: | |
"Izzyindetroit - 21 points in the first quarter and then,,,"
That correct forecast deserves a prize!
and in the final 6 min of the game as I type, Gary seems to have guessed a dead-on Lions 10 |
Jleurck
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Username: Jleurck
Post Number: 12
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Thursday, November 27, 2008 - 3:51 pm: | |
damn they're awful. Their level of sustained sucktitude is going to be cause for the league to start rotating the Thanksgiving Day game out of Detroit. I'd be very surprised if they're willing to keep it in Detroit after this year, despite the long tradition. This team has been too bad for too long. Hell, I'd settle for "mediocre" at this point.
BTW, Gnome - pretty good call right out of the gate! |
Bigb23
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Username: Bigb23
Post Number: 3021
Registered: 11-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, November 27, 2008 - 4:24 pm: | |
What gets my gizzard is the success of the expansion teams. The last 50+ years of the Lions are a disgrace. What a waste of a new stadium. |
Ray1936
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Username: Ray1936
Post Number: 3917
Registered: 01-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, November 27, 2008 - 4:26 pm: | |
At the end of the game, it was easy to estimate the size of the crowd. I'd place it at around 239. |
Ragtoplover59
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Username: Ragtoplover59
Post Number: 395
Registered: 09-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, November 27, 2008 - 4:32 pm: | |
Ray1936, Did you also notice that the Boos were just as loud in spite of all the empty seats? the handful of people left sure had their voices carry well! |
Aiw
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Username: Aiw
Post Number: 6818
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, November 27, 2008 - 4:54 pm: | |
What a mess. |
Gnome
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Username: Gnome
Post Number: 2177
Registered: 08-2007
| | Posted on Friday, November 28, 2008 - 1:55 pm: | |
goodness, of all the guesses, mine seems closest but giving oneself a digitally engraved trophy is unseemly.
I'll have to put on the thinking cap. Suggestions welcomed. |
Townonenorth
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Username: Townonenorth
Post Number: 392
Registered: 10-2007
| | Posted on Friday, November 28, 2008 - 2:08 pm: | |
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Bobl
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Username: Bobl
Post Number: 228
Registered: 07-2008
| | Posted on Friday, November 28, 2008 - 3:19 pm: | |
They need to bring back Bobby Layne, to give them all a good kick in the ass.......as he did once to his lineman who allowed a sack on the previous play. I believe he took a delay of game penalty, but there were no more missed plays! |
Goat
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Username: Goat
Post Number: 10551
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Friday, November 28, 2008 - 3:34 pm: | |
First time in my life I left a game at half time. It was more fun drinking and tailgating then watching that debacle.
What a clusterfuck...where to start? |
Bragaboutme
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Username: Bragaboutme
Post Number: 574
Registered: 02-2008
| | Posted on Friday, November 28, 2008 - 4:02 pm: | |
Gary for honorable mention. 35-10 was close. |
Gary
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Username: Gary
Post Number: 370
Registered: 02-2004
| | Posted on Friday, November 28, 2008 - 5:49 pm: | |
Go ahead and give yourself the trophy, Gnome. My 35-10 prediction was half right; that was the score at halftime, but if we go by total points, you win. Your 54 points beat my 45 without going over the actual total of 57.
What do I win for 2nd place? |
Thecarl
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Username: Thecarl
Post Number: 1477
Registered: 04-2005
| | Posted on Friday, November 28, 2008 - 6:40 pm: | |
quote:At the end of the game, it was easy to estimate the size of the crowd. I'd place it at around 239.
say it ain't so! i didn't get to see the end of the game - well, really i did, because i did see the first quarter. but had that many people left at the end of regulation? i was en route to thanksgiving at the in-laws, so i was only listening on the radio.
i remember how badly i felt for the tigers, i think in 2000, when they counted roughly 3,000 people in the stands for a game at comerica park. then again, i think that was the night when most folks left the park around the second inning because a giant swarm of flying ants descended upon the crowd. |
Gumby
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Username: Gumby
Post Number: 1880
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Friday, November 28, 2008 - 8:18 pm: | |
I was at the game and believe it or not stayed til the end. People started leaving 1:30 into the game after the first Tennesee TD. It was really quiet in there. There were only between 5 - 10,000 tops at the end of the game.
The loudest it got in there is when Fisher challenged the completion in the 4th quarter. What a classless move. |