The Lions have got to be everyone’s second favourite team…right?

[Unforgiven]

I'm going to hate them after Sunday I suspect. Just like I hate the Rams.

[Bill from NYC]

If you, or anyone wants to read a GREAT book about Detroit, here it is. The author Charlie Leduff is a bit screwy, but he is no joke. All of his books are very good but this one is simply great. Detroit makes the worst neighborhood in NYC look like Beverly Hills.

 

This is easily in my top ten books that I have ever read.

 

https://www.amazon.com/Detroit-American-Autopsy-Charlie-LeDuff/dp/0143124463

 

 

Edited December 12 by Bill from NYC

[3rdand12]

Being a Bills Fan , it's easy to like the Lions these days. And cheer for them.

for now. Subject to change come January

[KingBoots8]

2 hours ago, corta765 said:

 

 

Is this the cousin of Vin Diesel, Vin Miller? lol

that’s what I get for posting while at work 😂

Edited December 12 by KingBoots8

[EasternOHBillsFan]

HELL NO.... Michigan is a wasteland. Once the Bills work is done, it is essentially cheering against teams that I hate, which I don't want to do this season or any season when we have Josh.

[Richard Noggin]

20 hours ago, Doc Brown said:

They're a likable team.  I'd try to run through a brick wall for Campbell but would be knocked out unconscious.  Goff was basically kicked out of town by the Rams and left for dead.  They built their team the right way and know who they are.  Their fans deserve to at least go to a Super Bowl and lose to us.

 

See, you're approaching it all wrong. You gotta pick a shoulder/forearm to lead with, that way you ALSO fracture an ulna and/or collarbone, and probably dislocate that shoulder and/or maybe shred one of those complex joints. Duh. 

[Doc Brown]

4 minutes ago, Richard Noggin said:

 

See, you're approaching it all wrong. You gotta pick a shoulder/forearm to lead with, that way you ALSO fracture an ulna and/or collarbone, and probably dislocate that shoulder and/or maybe shred one of those complex joints. Duh. 

I'd prefer being knocked out unconscious than breaking a bone.  You don't remember it and your not in pain when you regain consciousness. 

[Richard Noggin]

5 hours ago, Bill from NYC said:

If you, or anyone wants to read a GREAT book about Detroit, here it is. The author Charlie Leduff is a bit screwy, but he is no joke. All of his books are very good but this one is simply great. Detroit makes the worst neighborhood in NYC look like Beverly Hills.

 

This is easily in my top ten books that I have ever read.

 

https://www.amazon.com/Detroit-American-Autopsy-Charlie-LeDuff/dp/0143124463

 

 

 

About 10 years ago my uncle (who moved his family there to work in the auto industry back in the early 80s) took us on a driving tour of Detroit's socio-economic disparity: we passed from affluent Grosse Pointe and immediately into the same kind of squalor we see on Buffalo's east side, except in Detroit many of the zombie houses have in fact been removed.

 

But the craziest/saddest part was when we got to The Heidelberg Project, a sparse and impoverished and beautiful neighborhood where many of the homes have been turned into art installations, TWO of the houses were actively ON FIRE as we idled past. That was some layered social commentary in real time. 

 

4 minutes ago, Doc Brown said:

I'd prefer being knocked out unconscious than breaking a bone.  You don't remember it and your not in pain when you regain consciousness. 

 

This was mostly my point; that I'd be a dumbass about it.

 

Although CTE seems potentially worse, long term. 

Edited December 13 by Richard Noggin

[Buffalo716]

19 minutes ago, Richard Noggin said:

 

About 10 years ago my uncle (who moved his family there to work in the auto industry back in the early 80s) took us on a driving tour of Detroit's socio-economic disparity: we passed from affluent Grosse Pointe and immediately into the same kind of squalor we see on Buffalo's east side, except in Detroit many of the zombie houses have in fact been removed.

 

But the craziest/saddest part was when we got to The Heidelberg Project, a sparse and impoverished and beautiful neighborhood where many of the homes have been turned into art installations, TWO of the houses were actively ON FIRE as we idled past. That was some layered social commentary in real time. 

 

 

This was mostly my point; that I'd be a dumbass about it.

 

Although CTE seems potentially worse, long term. 

Getting knocked out via a punch or kick is not good lol you'll wake up feeling like you were hit by a car.... Get choked unconscious on the other hand... Euphoric 

 

23 minutes ago, Doc Brown said:

I'd prefer being knocked out unconscious than breaking a bone.  You don't remember it and your not in pain when you regain consciousness. 

 

[Doc Brown]

5 minutes ago, Buffalo716 said:

Getting knocked out via a punch or kick is not good lol you'll wake up feeling like you were hit by a car.... Get choked unconscious on the other hand... Euphoric 

 

 

I hit my head on a corner of a counter trying to pick up a fallen plastic spoon the one time I got "knocked out."  Lol.

[Richard Noggin]

8 minutes ago, Buffalo716 said:

Getting knocked out via a punch or kick is not good lol you'll wake up feeling like you were hit by a car.... Get choked unconscious on the other hand... Euphoric 

 

 

Just ask Keith Carradine, Michael Hutchence, etc. 

[Buffalo716]

3 minutes ago, Doc Brown said:

I hit my head on a corner of a counter trying to pick up a fallen plastic spoon the one time I got "knocked out."  Lol.

I got sucker punched 4 times in the face when I was knocked out lol sure in the moment not too bad ... The next week.. ughh lol

 

I've also been choked unconscious from a triangle choke and it was honestly more peaceful than any dream lmao like a beautiful slumber 

Edited December 13 by Buffalo716

[Doc Brown]

7 minutes ago, Buffalo716 said:

I got sucker punched 4 times in the face when I was knocked out lol sure in the moment not too bad ... The next week.. ughh lol

Oh yeah.  I remember you.  Sorry about that.  Weird time in my life.

[Generic_Bills_Fan]

On 12/11/2024 at 11:32 PM, stevestojan said:

I’m likely in the minority here, but I can’t stand Dan Campbell. He’s too schticky for me. He can’t be that Gronkowski. I think he plays up his big dumb animal persona, and the crying every third press conference is a bit much. 
 

That said, if you asked if I’d prefer him over that clapping buffoon currently wasting Josh Allen’s prime years because he goes fully brain dead in the last 5 minutes of any close game, the answer is of course. 

I mean Campbell went brain dead for 30 and the lions gave up 27 unanswered points to end their only playoff run so far 😂. If we’re holding him to this same ‘only the playoffs matter’ standard the jury is definitely still out 

 

the year before that they missed the playoffs by 1 game after we pretty much 13 seconds-ed them on thanksgiving. Could definitely go full McDermott with his career haha 

[Richard Noggin]

3 minutes ago, Generic_Bills_Fan said:

I mean Campbell went brain dead for 30 and the lions gave up 27 unanswered points to end their only playoff run so far 😂. If we’re holding him to this same ‘only the playoffs matter’ standard the jury is definitely still out 

 

the year before that they missed the playoffs by 1 game after we pretty much 13 seconds-ed them on thanksgiving. Could definitely go full McDermott with his career haha 

 

Campbell is different from McD in that he is dripping with authenticity, and it feels like his players really respond to that. Of course in the playoffs he could again, authentically, repeatedly attempt ill-advised 4th downs and 2-pt conversions, but it just feels like his guys love the aggressive, full-speed approach. Helps them play free in crunch time, perhaps.

 

I'd say the Lions are closer than the Bills to a SB victory except for the limitation that their QB doesn't move well and their defense is SO injured. (Trading for Z Smith was really effing smart to plug at least one high profile hole.) I do suspect they will HANDLE the Bills this Sunday in Detroit. Hopefully the Bills make me look stupid and prevent a 2nd two-game skid. But Bills defensive issues have a habit of lingering for a couple games at a time. And the Lions are built to shred our defense, like if the Rams had a much better offensive line and more dynamic running backs. 

[Buftex]

The things I root for most are the Bills...whichever team is playing the Chiefs, and for Aaron Rodgers to lose. If the Bills are eliminated, my fallback teams this year would be Green Bay (just to annoy the piss out Rodgers) and, I suppose, the Lions.  The teams I would most hate to see win it all are KC, Philadelphia or Baltimore.

[Kelly to Allen]

John gruden is predicting

 

 

Buffalo 37

Detroit 34

[sleeby]

The Lions have been my NFC team since Barry sanders.   Bills fan all the way.  Hope that SB does not happen but go Bills

 

[Utah John]

Everything is relative.  For me the Bills are #1 and the Lions are something like #52.  The fact that there's no #2 through #51 means that yeah, they're next on my list, but the enormous difference in my passion level is reflected by the huge difference in ranking.

 

I don't really have a list at the bottom so much as a cesspool, with the Dolphins, Jets, Patriots, Cowboys, and Raiders all tossed in, with some of them bobbing up a little more from year to year.  The Chiefs aren't in that pool since I admire Andy Reid so much.

[BritBill]

No. Bollocks to the Lions. I don't want them winning a SB before the Bills. 

 

I also think they're a bit of a punk team who run the score up and a couple of their players go out of their ways to injure the opposition. 

 

In conclusion, I hope the Bills batter them on Sunday and they also lose their first play off game.