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What happened before any of our players were alive doesn't mean anything.

Hey Lions fans, I'll say something that won't make you feel so bad about last night's game. 1 - Every day you wake up you are one day closer to death.

This reminds me of the 1996 Red Wings. They set a record with 62 wins and didn't get to the Finals Sure, they regressed a bit in the regular season, but then the March 26th game galvanized them and they won it all I see something similar with the Lions. The Lions are the type of team that almost has to be an underdog to be comfortable. 3 losses all year - all were at home. If you think this is the end of their run, you are nuts and you don't know what you're talking about. This team will have at least 3 more years of very good football and hopefully fewer injuries. If Brad keeps drafting the way he does, it'll be more than 3 years. Sure, it stings. PAIN IS PART OF THE PROCESS 31 fanbases end the season sadly, we're just one of them. Now - please - anyone but the ****ing Chiefs.

Pistons lose Wings lose Lions lose All the young Tigers stars - please stay at home all weekend.

It was a tough one. They had so many injuries that a week off seemed like the ticket, but the momentum kind of stopped too. Too many defensive injuries. Ran out of plugs for the leaky boat.

Fire everyone. Trade everyone. Fire Holmes. Dump all the players. They'll never win another game again.

I will still take this over an endless parade of 6-9 win seasons.

SAME OLD IDIOT.

Give me a break. The most moronic take ever in this section of the board.

The injuries finally caught up to the defense and they just had nothing left. But remember. The Pistons had some agonizing losses before they won the whole thing The Red Wings made the Final, got swept, set a record for most wins the next year and didn't make it and then won the whole thing. Pain is part of the process. Hutch, Alim, CD23, Barnes, Rodrigo, Davenport, just way too many injuries to overcome.

Wow, Defense is toast. Helpless

Wow, lots of giving up here. We've seen this team come from behind several times this season. Hope the team doesn't quit. Doesn't look like they have.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Oh, Caitlin Clark was in the suite with Taylor Swift? Just give the Chiefs the trophy already. Why bother playing the games?

Hey look - there's Blake Griffin's parents again ! Hey - and there's Brenda Warner ! Hey did you know Matthew Stafford and Clayton Kershaw were on the same little league baseball team?

Hey, the NFL already has the sports fan on lockdown. They need new eyes, especially young female eyes on their product. It may not be scripted, but the field leans a certain way, doesn't it Now, this should help the Lions because they are the most popular team to watch, so it stands to reason that the NFL would want to tap into that energy.

Those people who don't normally watch football and just want to watch for the many shots of Taylor Swift in the suite want to see them in the Super Bowl again and the NFL sure knows it.

Wow, talk about a meltdown. Houston gives up a 63 yard return and one of the Texas shoves his special teams coach ON THE FIELD and gets a 15 yard penalty. So KC gets 78 yards right from the jump and turns it into 3-0.

The Lions have no shot of winning this game. They're getting destroyed. Remember the 41-10 drubbing in 1992 ? We're gonna have a similar fate tonight. Only question is - after Goff goes down in the 1st quarter, will it be Teddy B or Hendon? No way the Lions win this game. (I am a living jinx, please understand what I am doing here)

I think what happened with Boardwalk Empire is they needed to jettison Michael Pitt because nobody wanted to work with him, so they had to change directions with his character two seasons earlier then they initially planned. But the last season, with what, a 7-year time leap? That was odd. So Arnold Rothstein goes from being a minor character to a fairly important one and then in the last season his death is only mentioned in passing. I guess the idea was to jump to the end of prohibition, but it was poorly executed.

The cold opens for both shows were great, but the ones for Better Call Saul were brilliant. So much detail to it all. And often with no dialogue. The one in the final season - the Nacho episode. Just panning across the desert floor until you see that blue flower and the broken piece of glass. You have no idea what it means at the time, but when you go back, it's so powerful. No dialogue. No music. No action, just a slow pan. What other show had the balls to do that? The Wine & Roses episode where they are cleaning Saul's house out, the falling ties that shift from black and white to color. It's epic And I think my favorite is the one where the slide rule being put into the mold with that a capella version of In Stiller Nacht. Again, no dialouge. Just showing the process of putting something into a plastic mode. THEY RESPECTED YOUR INTELLIGENCE AND DIDN'T DUMB IT DOWN !

The final game at Tiger Stadium, after the game and players came from Centerfield, Wasn't he the first one out there? I was at the game, I think he was. Gathering dirt and putting it in a baggy. I still get emotional about that place, but also understood why they needed to make the move.

I always wished I had the guts to be as independent as Bill Lee

We were coming out of such a dismal season in '75. They lost 19 straight that year. Lolich, Hiller, Horton and Freehan were all that's left from the glory days and they were past prime. The farm system was another 2-3 years from developing anything. And I remember it VIVIDLY, even though I was just 11. It was a cool and cloudy Saturday and the Indians were playing the Tigers. It was on TV (I think only about 40 games were televised then). His first start. Fidrych gets up there, he's all arms and legs, he was shaped like a stick figure with curly hair and he'd pitch the ball and the catcher would return it and he just couldn't wait to throw another pitch. My dad had me go with him to a plumbing store on Van Dyke near 14 mile. He and the store guy get into some lengthy conversation about nothing that mattered to me and I sat there watching the game on this little black and white TV. The Bird just cruised through the game. Not looking this up, this is on memory, but he 2-hit them, right? And that game was over in less than 2 hours. You could tell - even then, that that cat was different. He looked like he wants to burst out of his own skin, he's stomp around the mound after every out. And 6 weeks later he ws a superstar. In an interview the interviewer said "that was a tragically short career". He said "Tragic? It wasn't tragic, I started an All-Star game, I was on the cover of Rolling Stone, it was great". In 1985 he suffered an injury (working on his truck, of course) and went and got an MRI, which weren't common then. They found the tear in his shoulder and he was told it could be repaired and in a year it could be as strong as ever. He was 30. He could have done it but he just said that he didn't want to set himself up for the heartbreak again because he was happy where he was. How do you not root for a guy like that?

Why did we even ****ing go through all of this? What a pointless exercise. I really hate the ****ing Dodgers. I hate them more than the Yankees now. Just tired of it.