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Offline Tucker

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Detroit Lions
« on: November 28, 2008, 06:48:57 PM »
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/28/sports/football/28lions.html?_r=2&ref=sports

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Titans 47, Lions 10
Lions Prolong a Tradition of Futility


DETROIT — Making fun of the Lions is too easy, like an ice fisherman casting his line into a drink cooler.

In a city that is home to auto executives who traveled in private jets to Washington to plead poverty, the Lions still provide the biggest laughs. Derek Richards, a stand-up comedian who grew up here, said: “You can make a Lions joke anywhere in the country and people get it. Everybody across the United States knows how miserable this team is.”

The Lions (0-12) looked like a vaudeville act masquerading as a National Football League team Thursday in a 47-10 loss to the Tennessee Titans at Ford Field. They turned the ball over three times, were 0 for 11 on third downs and allowed the Titans’ offense to roll for 456 yards on the way to their worst margin of defeat in a Thanksgiving Day game.

The loss to the 11-1 Titans represented another obstacle overcome in the Lions’ bid to become the first team in league history to finish 0-16. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers finished 0-14 in 1976.

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This needed to be longer. He speaks the truth. :banghead:
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Re: Detroit Lions
« Reply #1 on: November 28, 2008, 06:51:40 PM »
At least we got the Redwings.
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Re: Detroit Lions
« Reply #2 on: November 28, 2008, 06:54:09 PM »
Quote from: djones520 on November 28, 2008, 06:51:40 PM
At least we got the Redwings.

I'm going to go and watch the Pistone. Iverson is gonna be on the bench tonight for missing practice yesterday.
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Re: Detroit Lions
« Reply #3 on: November 28, 2008, 06:56:31 PM »
I've got a pretty good chance of actually getting to see the Redwings play a couple games this year.  I got a guy whose hooking me up with Blues tickets for $10 a pop.
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Re: Detroit Lions
« Reply #4 on: November 28, 2008, 06:58:58 PM »
Quote from: djones520 on November 28, 2008, 06:56:31 PM
I've got a pretty good chance of actually getting to see the Redwings play a couple games this year.  I got a guy whose hooking me up with Blues tickets for $10 a pop.

Good deal. They cost more than that here in Mi.
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Re: Detroit Lions
« Reply #5 on: November 28, 2008, 10:13:59 PM »
Quote from: djones520 on November 28, 2008, 06:56:31 PM
I've got a pretty good chance of actually getting to see the Redwings play a couple games this year.  I got a guy whose hooking me up with Blues tickets for $10 a pop.
Really?  They only pay you $10 to sit through one of their games?   :fuelfire:   :tongue:  :-)
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Re: Detroit Lions
« Reply #6 on: November 28, 2008, 10:18:48 PM »
Quote from: lug-nut on November 28, 2008, 10:13:59 PM
Really?  They only pay you $10 to sit through one of their games?   :fuelfire:   :tongue:  :-)

Well, I'm only attending the games that the Redwings will be at.  So it's worth it.
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Re: Detroit Lions
« Reply #7 on: November 29, 2008, 06:50:31 AM »
Where the hell do you get octopus in Saint Louis?
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Re: Detroit Lions
« Reply #8 on: November 29, 2008, 07:39:37 AM »
Hey, y'all might get Matt Cassel next year. 


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Re: Detroit Lions
« Reply #9 on: November 29, 2008, 07:45:55 AM »
Rumors.

Nobody comes here on their own.
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Re: Detroit Lions
« Reply #10 on: November 29, 2008, 07:56:32 AM »
Well maybe Matt Millen wasn't the problem eh?
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Re: Detroit Lions
« Reply #11 on: November 29, 2008, 07:59:21 AM »
Quote from: Uhhuh35 on November 29, 2008, 07:56:32 AM
Well maybe Matt Millen wasn't the problem eh?

They've won one playoff game in 50 years. Millen was not the problem.
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Re: Detroit Lions
« Reply #12 on: November 30, 2008, 03:25:13 PM »
I've got to give props to Jeff Fisher for not running 50 points up on the scoreboard.  God knows that it would have been easy enough to do.  The guy has a little bit of decorum.
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Re: Detroit Lions
« Reply #13 on: December 15, 2008, 07:52:18 AM »
Quote from: Tucker13 on November 28, 2008, 06:48:57 PM
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/28/sports/football/28lions.html?_r=2&ref=sports


This needed to be longer. He speaks the truth. :banghead:
Well with yesterdays debacle{At least they didn't get crushed} The Motor City Kitties have tied The Tampa Bay Bucs for the worst team in NFL history. Two games away from being the laughingstock of all time! :banghead: :banghead: How embarassing!
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Re: Detroit Lions
« Reply #14 on: December 15, 2008, 09:53:23 AM »
Quote from: Toastedturningtidelegs on December 15, 2008, 07:52:18 AM
Well with yesterdays debacle{At least they didn't get crushed} The Motor City Kitties have tied The Tampa Bay Bucs for the worst team in NFL history. Two games away from being the laughingstock of all time! :banghead: :banghead: How embarassing!

Actually as a resident of Tampa during that time, the Bucs lost the first 12 games the following season, for a total of 0-26.  Let's see if you can beat that, wimps.   :loser:

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Re: Detroit Lions
« Reply #15 on: December 15, 2008, 09:59:59 AM »
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