  Downriviera Member Username: Downriviera Post Number: 1001 Registered: 02-2008 |
Happy bye week to my fellow Lions fans. Its a beautiful Sunday, no pressure to watch the weekly fiasco. | ||
Knocturnal Member Username: Knocturnal Post Number: 257 Registered: 10-2004 |
There will be nothing to share laughter about around the water cooler tomorrow morning, however. | ||
Goat Member Username: Goat Post Number: 10409 Registered: 10-2003 |
Wait, did Detroit lose in the bye week as well? ;) | ||
Flanders_field Member Username: Flanders_field Post Number: 1077 Registered: 01-2008 |
What about RIGHT NOW?? uhh...how does 17-0 Bears sound?? | ||
Flanders_field Member Username: Flanders_field Post Number: 1078 Registered: 01-2008 |
Much of the Lions hometown crowd is now cheering the Bears' TD 24-0 in the 3rd quarter. Orlovsky has taken over as QB in the second half over Quitna, and his group of butterfingered recievers...maybe the Lions can avoid being shutout and kick a FG or two...LOL!! EDIT...Ooopsy Danno just thew an INT with his second pass for a TD...31-0 Bears!! ...and the rout is on..LMAO!! (Message edited by Flanders_field on October 05, 2008) | ||
20043_stotter Member Username: 20043_stotter Post Number: 605 Registered: 03-2007 |
Lyin's fans, please, no more sellouts. Show the television fans some mercy, please? | ||
Flanders_field Member Username: Flanders_field Post Number: 1079 Registered: 01-2008 |
Kevin Smith runs one in after the fumble recovery and emphatically slams the football to the turf..LOL!! and the Lions score to make it 31-7. | ||
Ray1936 Member Username: Ray1936 Post Number: 3727 Registered: 01-2005 |
Is there doubt in anyone's mind that MSU could easily beat the Lions? | ||
Flanders_field Member Username: Flanders_field Post Number: 1080 Registered: 01-2008 |
No, and even mediocre UM could likely make it a competitive game vs the Lions as well. | ||
Izzyindetroit Member Username: Izzyindetroit Post Number: 108 Registered: 07-2008 |
"Much of the Lions hometown crowd is now cheering the Bears' TD 24-0 in the 3rd quarter." Actually... I was at the Lions game and those were the Bears fans cheering. They seriously made up for more than a third of the audience. | ||
Defendbrooklyn Member Username: Defendbrooklyn Post Number: 1037 Registered: 11-2005 |
I wish the radio stations would stop covering the lions...I wish the fans would stop attending games....THis should be the last post on the detroit lions... | ||
20043_stotter Member Username: 20043_stotter Post Number: 608 Registered: 03-2007 |
Defend, This won't be the last post on the Lyin's. They deserve no mercy for lying to fans for all these years. They deserve every spit and shit given to them by the fans who were hoodwinked and fell for their bullshit. Only you can turn off the radio and not watch them on tv or refuse to go to the games. The laughing stock of the NFL doesn't need the fans to let them off so easy. | ||
Defendbrooklyn Member Username: Defendbrooklyn Post Number: 1038 Registered: 11-2005 |
Agree.... But one time i would love the lions to have a home game and not one fan to show up. That would be great! | ||
20043_stotter Member Username: 20043_stotter Post Number: 609 Registered: 03-2007 |
Maybe, if they lose 15 in a row, nobody will show for the last game and you will have your wish. | ||
_sj_ Member Username: _sj_ Post Number: 2631 Registered: 12-2003 |
Gotta love how fans here like to shout from rooftops how great they are when in reality they are some of the worst sports fans in the country. | ||
Smogboy Member Username: Smogboy Post Number: 8945 Registered: 11-2004 |
And yet we're here week after week complaining, kvetching and bemoaning this team. Yeah, dare I say it? We're ALL Lions fans here despite how miserable the team performs on the field. And _sj_, if the Lions faithful are truly lousy sports fans, then explain to me the loyalty they have? Don't discount fan loyalty to their teams now. It's always easy to cheer for the perennial leaders of the pack, but it's also a badge of honor for some people to cheer for a team they consider theirs. Only one team in the end wins it- that doesn't make all of the other teams' fans lousy sports fans. Slam the Lions' play all you want (more than likely we'll all agree with you on it) but please don't take it out on the fan faithful of any team. Obviously enough caring people, such as us are willing to discuss it here, the newspapers, online (just go check out MLive.com's amount of commentary), sports talk shows and the like every Monday morning. I've asked this before- if you truly don't care about this team, why are you even posting here? Aren't there other threads of much more considerable interest for you to entertain yourselves? I'm willing to admit that I'm a fan of this piss poor, rotten performing team every week and that's why I comment on them here. What's everyone else's reason for it? | ||
_sj_ Member Username: _sj_ Post Number: 2636 Registered: 12-2003 |
I agree, rooting for a loser is a real fan, it is easy to root for the winners. But Detroit sports fans like to think of themselves as top notch. The rest of the country doesn't share that same view. The fight at the Palace. The HBO piece on violence at the Silverdome, Fan marches and protests. Now calling for no one to show up. That is not top notch. | ||
Smogboy Member Username: Smogboy Post Number: 8948 Registered: 11-2004 |
_sj_, i think that the rest of the country's view on what kind of sports fan are is still indicative of what they perceive of this region. People still expect us to riot like we did after the 1984 Tigers World Series. And yet check out things like the hooligan soccer riots in Europe, the Montreal & Vancouver hockey riots last year, collegiate celebrations and numerous other fan embarrassments- they just don't get attached to those individual cities as do any sort of flare ups we have here in the area. As far as fan marches, protests, bags over our heads, etc., I would count that into the category of fans still caring. It's kind of akin to us bitching here- we care. Fans who are willing to talk, discuss and rightfully so complain are passionate people. To tell those people not to have any sort of compassion is pointless and totally insipid. | ||
Raptor56 Member Username: Raptor56 Post Number: 520 Registered: 05-2007 |
Don't blame the Lions, or Ford, or Millen. Blame the curse of Bobby Layne (which ends today)!! http://detnews.com/apps/pbcs.d ll/article?AID=/20081002/OPINI ON03/810020385/1126/SPORTS0101 | ||
Bragaboutme Member Username: Bragaboutme Post Number: 536 Registered: 02-2008 |
I don't care if they lose, I care if they compete. all of that giving up B.S. is what I don't like about Quitna. This is a good team they just need a leader at the helm. If you have a puss as a QB then you will have a puss of a team. Quitna kills the Offense and the defense when he gets on the field by his timing. I can call out the run defense from home still no Audible, hell even the anouncers are saying what the hell strategy are the lions going with. Look I play Madden 09' and I'm killing online players with the Lions. I look at the height, weight, and speed of our players and they match up well with other good teams. Our Offense isn't setting up the Defense for success and that's what needs to change. We don't have a good coach either. No coach would've let him go that long without pulling him and when you do it puts more frustration on the team as a whole. The moral is that it's just another losing season so I can see why everyone quits. | ||
20043_stotter Member Username: 20043_stotter Post Number: 610 Registered: 03-2007 |
Brag, When was it they had a competing team? Well, I believe it was 1990, 18 years ago and your still a fan.....good for you. That really says something. | ||
Bragaboutme Member Username: Bragaboutme Post Number: 537 Registered: 02-2008 |
What about 93' 94' 99'?? I think we keep shooting ourselves in the foot with the choices we are making at QB. We were 6-2 cause of our defense making plays and saving Quitnas behind last year. 20043, think about it your a fan too. | ||
20043_stotter Member Username: 20043_stotter Post Number: 611 Registered: 03-2007 |
Brag, I don't believe the Lyin's went to the playoffs since 1990. Lots of teams make the playoffs every year. If you don't make post season play, you must not have had a competing team. I guess they are so bad, that if they have a .500 season, some might think that as being competitive and acceptable. Lets face it, they are the laughing stock of the Nat'l Football League and have been for a long time. I don't know what you call a competing team and don't want to know, but mine is making post season play. Anything below that is substandard to me. | ||
Raptor56 Member Username: Raptor56 Post Number: 521 Registered: 05-2007 |
Once again, the Lie Downs made the playoffs in 1991 (only win), 93, 94, 95, 97, and 99. http://www.detroitlions.com/do cument_display.cfm?cont_id=108 650 | ||
20043_stotter Member Username: 20043_stotter Post Number: 612 Registered: 03-2007 |
Raptor, Thanks for the info on the playoffs. The Lyin's still suck, and are a very bad team. | ||
_sj_ Member Username: _sj_ Post Number: 2638 Registered: 12-2003 |
In Marty's first year when they were 2-14 they competed every game and a lot them came down to the end. | ||
Goat Member Username: Goat Post Number: 10422 Registered: 10-2003 |
Who gives a shit how they competed in the past; whether or not they made the playoffs then and who played on the team. What I want NOW is a fucking win. What I want now is a good team not the shit we have to see evey week. Truly I tell you, this team has but 2 players with talent; Johnson and Sims. The rest are not even 2nd string talent. They will be lucky to be 8-8 in 4 years. The only reason I go to the games is the tail-gating and drinking. If any fan tells you they ar there for the game they are lying because anyone who enjoys football cannot enjoy watching the Lions. It is really embarassing. | ||
20043_stotter Member Username: 20043_stotter Post Number: 615 Registered: 03-2007 |
NFL Network is saying the Lyin's are shopping Roy Williams around the league and Dallas and Philadelphia may be interested. They want 1 or 2 first round draft picks for him. He hasn't done that much has he? | ||
Kenp Member Username: Kenp Post Number: 1223 Registered: 03-2006 |
Roy Williams is very good. It appears that Roy is leaving after this year anyway, so getting a first round pick would be a good move. You never hear about mid season trades in the NFL. I suppose the salary cap is an issue. | ||
Border5150 Member Username: Border5150 Post Number: 268 Registered: 03-2004 |
quote: "They will be lucky to be 8-8 in 4 years" These guys would be lucky to win 8 games WITHIN four years (8-56). |
