As I am watching the Lions game (sigh) on this thanksgiving early afternoon, I can't help but question my loyalty to them. It is hard to back a team that is just this bad. But the other part of me thinks that I have to support them because I have all my life. And it isn't like this is one bad season, oh no, the Lions can't do that. Hell, they can't even have a winning season (it hasn't happened since 2001). And we won't even get into the playoff situation (not since the early 90's) and the last time they were the best team in football, they didn't even have the Super Bowl, it was the football championship game and that was back in the fifties.
I point to the 2006 Tigers for my defense of supporting a team. For years and years the Tigers were awful. In 2005 they had the worst record in major league baseball and the next year things fell into place and made it to the World Series. Everyone was a Tigers fan in 2006, but this year they were down and people jumped off the bandwagon again. And those of us who are on the bandwagon for so long don't just jump off after a bad season. So I will stay on the Lions bandwagon just so when they become a good team again (and they will) I can help people climb back on the wagon...
even if they are good for just one season.
do what all the Michiganians are doing! Root for the perfect season! We can go down in history! 0-16! w00t!
ReplyDeletedude, that is cold.
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