It's A Jungle Out There!

Howdy All in Lions Land,

Well let’s see where shall I begin? Let’s talk a bit about the Arizona Cardinals and their run to the Super Bowl. Here is a team, like the late comedian Rodney Dangerfield would say “I can’t get no respect”. Even though they won their division and had a winning record they were never given any credit. I think Jim Rome and I were the only ones who believed in that team. They beat three teams that were favored to beat them. The Falcons, favored. The Panthers, favored. The Eagles, favored. The Steelers, favored. Although the latter did prevail in Super Bow XLIII. They were called the worst play-off team ever.

They were 2 minutes and some change from winning their first Super Bowl until a late game winning touchdown drive from Ben Roethlisberger to Santonio Holmes sealed the deal. I have heard from various sources that the Steelers would lay a beat down on the Cardinals, some claiming by three touchdowns. They won by two safeties. Hardly a beat down. So kudos to the Cardinals for proving so many in the football world how wrong they were about how they didn’t deserve to be there.

You might be saying so what has this blog have to do with our ever lovable Detroit Lions? There are so many parallels between the Cardinals and Lions it is uncanny. When the Detroit Lions go to the Super Bowl I can only wonder the amount of trash spewing that will be said about our team by the so called experts. There was an article in today’s Detroit Free Press read it here about the parallels between the Lions and Cardinals and after reading it, I am feeling very optimistic about our future.

http://www.freep.com/article/20090203/SPORTS01/902030310/1049/Mayhew++Lions+could+look+to+build+like+Cardinals

There is not much in the way of news this past week because it is considered poor etiquette to make announcements during the Super Bowl weekend. Some of you may have heard that WR Mike Furrey will not be returning with the team and I can only wonder how many others have been shown the door which we will find out soon starting February 9th when the waiver process begins? If a sub-par receiver is going to be shown the door it only reasons that the players especially on the defensive side of the ball will be the terminally ill patients about to have their life-support plug pulled.

They are also still looking for an Assistant GM who would be the personnel director and could be former Jacksonville Jaguars Vice-President of Personnel James Harris. They do need to move on this hire as soon as they can because of two factors one they cannot hire anyone in this capacity who is currently employed by another team before the draft in April which would be like fixing the barn door after the horse has come home because we need that person in place before the draft and second because of the GM and coaching shuffling that is going on the candidate they want may hold out for another offer from another team. You can read Tom Killer Kowalski’s column at MLive on that here:

http://www.mlive.com/lions/index.ssf/2009/02/are_lions_delaying_announcemen.html

A couple of other tid bits are the Thanksgiving game is safe for the coming season at least and will not be taken away from us this year. There is talk of doing a rotation among all of the teams but my opinion is if they do that then let’s make the playing field level no pun intended. Every team gets a Monday Night or Sunday Night game. That is what the Lions ownership and the rest of the owners should demand from that butt face Roger Goodell. Another topic is the Lions are considering a logo and color scheme change. If they change the leaping Lion, I think they should change it to something a bit psychological like the logo for the Nashville Predators of the NHL. Colors I think could be changed to a light brown white or red.

I will have another post sometime this weekend so until then all of you take care and keep the faith. You do have to have faith as a Lions fan but I believe that faith will be rewarded someday.