detnews.com|Lions Blog|ESPN’s Kiper marks up Lions’ ’09 draft grade
detnews.com|Lions Blog|ESPN’s Kiper marks up Lions’ ’09 draft grade.
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Hard to believe in curses
But I have to admit, reading some of the disaster, tradgedies, and stats on this site make be believe that if ever anyone was cursed, it was the Detroit Lions. The part about the playoff record before the curse (6-1) and after the curse being the exact inverse (1-9) is really strange.
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detnews.com|Lions Blog|Many unhappy returns: Lions waved the red flag Sunday
I heard this on the radio (Monday press conference) and had to laugh. At least schwartz is honest.
detnews.com|Lions Blog|Many unhappy returns: Lions waved the red flag Sunday.
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Matt Millen speaks while TV scrollbar rips him
Brutally Honest Television Scroll
You have to watch the scroll bar in this video, while Matt is talking from the broadcast booth, the local scroll bar from channel 4 news is talking about how bad a GM he is.
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Louis Delmas 101 yd Interception Return
Watching the video on this play I have to call this probably the most exciting Lion play on defense since the Lem Barney era. Too bad it was in a losing cause but hell, at least we have a little something to build on for next year. The end of the Cleveland game and this interception are two highlights that dwarf anything we’ve seen here recently.
As for getting the #1 pick, they say that Suh is the best player coming out of the draft in the last 30 years so I say if we have a chance to draft him…trade down, you’ll never get more value for someone who has never played than now, besides Suh couldn’t beat Texas by himself, the Lions need so much more than one guy.
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1957 Championship Game – Lions vs Cleveland
1957 NFL Championship – Lions vs. Browns – Vol. 1
Great historical video of the 1957 NFL Championship between the Lions and Browns. Great shots of old Detroit and Briggs (aka Tiger) stadium where the game was played. The announcer is singing the virtues of the Detroit franchise. Makes you a little proud,
Also check out the rookie of the year for Cleveland, a young Jim Brown.
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Winning Percentage
We have divided the Lions history into era’s. We have graphed out the Lions Winning Percentage into the graph below.
Many fans felt pretty good about the team when Barry Sanders was with them and it reflects in this chart. These good feelings created a brief rift in the curse. If you remove this era, you can plainly see that the Lions are exactly where they should be as the winning percentage continues to drop in a very linear way.
The downward slide of the Lions would finally bottom out in the last year of the curse, 2008. The Lions would become the only team in NFL history to go 0-16 since the NFL adopted a 16 game schedule.
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Playoff Record
When you take a look at the post season record of the Lions, you will notice that prior to the curse years the Lions did very well in playoff games with a 6-1 record (We do not count the Portsmouth Spartans/Lions record). Now lets look at the record after the curse and their record is 1-9. Thats right folks one playoff win and nine losses since the curse. In the chart below you can see that obviously the changing point was when the curse started in 1958. In addition it took the Lions 13 years to make the playoffs after the curse and when they did they did not even score, it took another 12 years for that to happen. The curse was so strong that the Lions did not score a point in a playoff game for more than a quarter of a century! A 13 year drought to get to a playoff game and they follow that with a 12 year drought. That is not unlucky, that is cursed.
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Now lets get a little creepy, so many things on this site can be chalked up to coincidence by non curse believers but if you take the Lions playoff record before the curse and invert it 180 degrees it equals the Lions playoff record after the curse.
For more information on this go to the The Curse page and read about the Inverted Time Period principle which is a common occurrence with curses . To estimate the odds of this exact combination happening you would have to take all the possible playoff wins a team could have before 1958, multiply it by years that there were playoffs, multiply it by the possible playoff wins a team could have for 50 years, then multiply that by 50. So its safe to say that the odds of this happening to a team is about 1 in a MILLEN.
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Coaches Graveyard
No Lion Head Coach hired during the Cursed Era has ever worked again as an NFL head coach. Don’t you find it amazing that the last head coach to leave the Lions and be hired somewhere else as head coach was George Wilson, Bobby Laynes last coach as a Lion?
Note – we only count Coach’s who were signed as head coach, interim coaches who did not receive a head coach contract do not count (IE Dick Jauron)
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Everything Good Must Go Sour
This curse is truly powerful and since it thrives on negative emotion (see The Curse), it must do its best to destroy any positive feelings the Lions have had over the years. Lets examine the 4 biggest Lion highpoints since the curse began and see how ugly they ended.
Great Thing – In 1969 Joe Schmidt is honored as the Greatest Lion ever.
Turned Ugly When – Joe Schmidt is arrested for driving while intoxicated on the way home from the celebration.
Great Thing – Barry Sanders Career Rushing
Turned Ugly When – Barry Quits right before training camp during the season he was projected to set the NFL all time rushing record.
Great Thing – Billy Sims signs with Lions over USFL,
Turned Ugly When – In first year of new contract he suffers a career ending injury to his leg without even being hit.
Great Thing – Lions defeat Dallas 38 – 6 in the playoffs
Turned Ugly When – The playoff run ended in a humiliating loss to Washington the next round, 41 – 10.
You can do this with any good or great Lion moment. I remember when Mariucci was the great thing, I remember when the “run and shoot” was the great thing, I remember when Andre Ware was the great thing, I remember when Chuck Long was the great thing, Rodney Peete, Joey Harrington, Charles Rogers…They almost all end the same way, sour and ugly. Heres a couple more to look at.
Great Thing – Barry Sanders rushes for 2000 yds in one season
Turned Ugly When – Reggie Brown suffered Paralysis the same game.
Great Thing – 12 -4 Season
Turned Ugly When – Utley gets paralyzed and Eric Andolsek dies in the off season.
Go back in history and research it yourself, every good thing that happens to this team almost always ends in disaster. The curse does not want anyone or any fan to feel good very long about these Lions!
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Happy Holidays To All
Twas the night of a Blackout, when all through my house,
my family was surfing for scores with their mouse.
To the radio they listened as voices filled the air,
mayhap a Lion victory would be talked about there.
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Uh Oh, Road Game Coming Up
Lets make this simple, lets take the results of the last 7 road games, you will note that every one of them was a double digit loss. I also note that the Lions have not won in San Francisco since before Eddie Murray missed that field goal in the early 80′s.
Sep 13 – L at New Orleans, 45-27 difference =18
Oct 4 – L at Chicago, 48-24 difference =24
Oct 18 – L at Green Bay, 26-0 difference =26
Nov 8 – L at Seattle, 32-20 difference =12
Nov 15 – L at Minnesota, 27-10 difference =17
Dec 6 – L at Cincinnati, 23-13 difference =13
Dec 13 – L at Baltimore, 48-3 difference =45
Total up all the differences and it comes out to 155. Divide that by 7 and you get roughly 22. That means that the Lions will lose the game in San Francisco by 3 touchdowns. So my prediction is
San Fran 36
Detroit 14
You heard it here first folks, the numbers don’t lie.
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We’re #2 in the draft!
Cleveland won (3-11) and Tampa Bay won (2-12) so now the Lion are at #2 in the draft. The only thing standing in their way is St. Louis who needs to win at least once more. St. Louis only win is against (give you 3 guesses then look at the Lion schedule below.)…
Sep 13 – L at New Orleans, 45-27
Sep 20 – L vs. Minnesota, 13-27
Sep 27 – W vs. Washington, 19-14
Oct 4 – L at Chicago, 48-24
Oct 11 – L vs. Pittsburgh, 20-28
Oct 18 – L at Green Bay, 26-0
Oct 25 – No Game Scheduled
Nov 1 – L vs. St. Louis, 10-17
Nov 8 – L at Seattle, 32-20
Nov 15 – L at Minnesota, 27-10
Nov 22 – W vs. Cleveland, 38-37
Nov 26 – L vs. Green Bay, 12-34
Dec 6 – L at Cincinnati, 23-13
Dec 13 – L at Baltimore, 48-3
Dec 20 – L vs. Arizona, 24-31
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Lions keep it surprisingly close, but lose to Arizona
Lions keep it surprisingly close, but lose to Arizona
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Lions sit Culpepper to start second half; Stanton
Lions sit Culpepper to start second half; Stanton in
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