The Lions, Lioned Again...

Well Championship weekend didn't disappoint... Chiefs dominated no surprises there… Let’s just rata-tat-tat through that game… Patrick Mahomes and The Chiefs are in another Super Bowl great… Mahomes great, Andy great, Travis great, Spags great, Chris Jones great, defense great, Lamar choked, I feel bad for Zay Flowers… I told you not to bet against them… So, congrats to the Chiefs we will see you in Vegas, but I am not here to talk about The Chiefs and how they have made to another Super Bowl, their 4th in 5 years but instead those poor motor city kitties found a way to lion again… What’s “Lion” you ask? The definition of Lioned is to lose repeatedly in a way that nobody else has… The Lions have been doing this for years, not just a decade but more like a century. I called my dad last night after the game and he didn’t seem fazed at all at the night’s events. “Hey Dad, how ya doing?” “Brett, you know what, for a moment there I almost got my hopes up at half time but, I didn’t because it was only half time and The Lions have lost these games before.” It’s kind of tortured existence when you think about it… Another year, another heart-breaking Lions season. You can’t get angry, you can’t get disappointed, but in the end Lions fans seem to know the drill. Getting your hopes up is something that veteran Lions fans don’t seem to do.

The Lions came out firing in the first quarter more than a Jason Statham movie and it gave you just a little hope, like just maybe, justttt maybe The Lions mane was changing, and we were about to see a transformed Lions team with touchdowns just flying up on the scoreboard faster than a Peregrine Falcon diving after a pigeon. They had first half touchdowns from Jameson Williams, David Montgomery, Jahmyr Gibbs The “new” Lions took a 24-7 lead into half. But just like the teams before them, and just as fast as that Peregrine Falcon caught the pigeon, he regurgitated it right back up… It’s just like The Lions to find a way to blow a 24-7 lead in the second half. In a whole new fashion with one bad bounce off a defender’s face, that just so happened to find its way right into the receivers’ hands, one bad fumble, one bad quarter, not one but two bad 4th down calls, it was just one classic half by the Lions, that changed The Lions’ future for yet another season. The 49ers didn’t do anything special to win that game, they just took advantage of every single mistake the Lions made, it's not that impressive when all the Lions did was make mistake after mistake…

But credit where credit is due, Brock Purdy kind of played well… Let me be more specific he played well in the second half and since when does Brock have wheels? I mean the guy looked faster than every Olympic sprinter headed to Paris this summer. Lamar Purdy, Usain Purdy, Tyreek Purdy, who the hell did he just transform into… That guy is fast… not sneaky fast… but just straight up fast. I haven’t watched much niners football this year, but has he been doing this all year? While we are here giving the niners some praise, that running back over there in San Francisco, has to be the best I’ve ever seen. Christian McCaffrey is beyond good, I was looking on Draftkings Sports Book before the game at odds for 2 touchdowns scored in a game for a single player, most guys were around +1700, +1200, I mean good odds for betting, but McCaffrey was +370 for 2 touchdowns… that’s insane, I thought to myself who the hell is actually going to bet that… Well jokes on me because for the umpteenth time in his career, McCaffery decided to score two touchdowns in a game. Don’t get me wrong I’m happy for Brock Purdy, the last pick in the draft is leading his team to a Super Bowl, it’s a pretty amazing story and we love underdog stories but to beat the most underdog franchise on your way to doing it, kind of turns you into unlikeable, villain… Which is sad because he does have such a great story but hey Brock next time you want to make it to a Super Bowl do it against an unlikeable franchise like the Cowboys and your likeability will shoot to the moon.

Don’t feel sorry for Lions fans today, it's just another season that ends with The Lions not making a Super Bowl, nothing new there… But for some reason this year just felt different… They had the whole country biting kneecaps, they had a whole country making kneecap soup, they had the whole country routing for them, they had the whole country believing in a city that kind of needs something to believe in. You just don’t see that in sports. I think Dan Campbell said it perfectly last night, “this may have been our only shot.’ Do I think that? No. Do I believe that? No. However I know how hard it is to get here. I’m well aware. And it’s going to be twice as hard to get back to this point next year.” That kind of puts the NFL into prospective, it's hard to make Super Bowls, it's hard to make the playoffs, it's hard to win in this league. We think it’s easy when we see Tom Brady and Patrick Mahomes making it to the Super Bowl every year, but it’s not. So, don’t feel bad for Detroit today, the Lions took the city on a ride that they will never forget and isn’t that what sports is about? Making memories that last a lifetime… So, thanks Dan Campbell, thanks Jared Goff, thanks Adina Hutchinson, thanks for taking my dad and that city on an unforgettable ride this season and restoring hope back into that city, and who knows maybe next year we aren’t talking about them coming up short but instead we are talking about them lifting the Lombardi for the first time ever…