Best team in the NFL?


Probably not, but it's time to talk some LIONS FOOTBALL!!! It's no secret, the Lions are my team and even in the 0-16 season I did a few episodes of Totally Twisted Flix decked out in Lions gear to show my support despite their futility. But after the comeback against the snakebit Vikings last Sunday, we're starting to get a little bit of much needed national love.

Mind you, had the Lions had lost that game I would've been fine with it. It's not like we expect them to go undefeated and it was a road game against a tough opponent in place they hadn't won since Bill Clinton was president, but they pulled it out in spectacular fashion, and while we try to take these things one game at a time... but as fans expectations are starting to get a little high. My hope at the beginning of the season was that The Lions go 10-6 and maybe squeeze into a wildcard spot, The Packers being the class of the division, if not the entire league, but realistically I was seeing 8-8. Right now 8-8 would end up being a bit of disappointment since that would mean playing sub .500 ball the rest of the way. I did warn my fellow Lion faithful that it wouldn't be beyond our team to go 8-1 and lose the next seven games, but we are banking on that not happening.

That's saying a lot for a team that lost every game three years ago, a feat that made them a sub-expansion team since even expansion teams find a way to win a couple. Thus, for this turnaround, we have take our hats off to GM Martin Mayhew who learned well at the hem of the esteemed Matt Millen on exactly what NOT to do when building a football team. And while the Lions are one Calvin Johnson twisted ankle from falling back to the rest of the pack, I'm thinking that's not going to happen either. This also means we're looking into the future, which is silly and unwise, especially for a Lions fan, but we're doing it anyway dammit! Because in this future that I'm seeing, the playoff bound Lions will end up facing either the NFC East or West division winner, the Pack and the Saints getting first round bye's, and the chances are the Lions will have a better record than whoever those division winners are. This future is telling me that the Detroit Lions are getting a second playoff win in fifty-five years... that's what the future is telling me. Who am I to discount the wisdom of the planets?

Crazy talk? Hell yes it is. But now, we here in Detroit can talk crazy, where for well over a decade we couldn't talk at all. Life is good. Oh, and we don't really watch a lot of movies during football season so updates will be low. Not that anyone cares about that.

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