They'll Invite Anyone to Training Camp!

Its really a commercial for the new Ford truck, but you have to admit the Lions are good sports!




Jimmy Kimmel via Youtube

Eisen I Can Relate

Ok picture this, me(old and carrying 13+ extra lbs) and my three year old boy(trim, active runner) were watching the NFL combine off and on this weekend, and the running backs and linebacker were running the 40. So why not start the boy in a little competition? Little man runs like the frickin wind, and I look a lot more like the guy in this video...



video from withleather/youtube

Me still dreaming of the good old days...

Highlight video of Barry Sanders....

The painful thing is that my kids will probably never see a running back like this in their lifetime.

Dance Love for Aaron Rodgers!

A man crush that goes too far?! Why isn't this guy a YouTube superstar by now?

Anyway, nice moves buddy, I'm sure Aaron appreciates it!



Vid from Lioninoil.com thru YouTube

A Middle Linebacker is a geek?

Everyone had a geeky moment in their life....right?

Do you remember when it didn't suck to be a Lions fan!?

Yeah, I couldn't remember when either. Until I ran into this video on Liveleak.com and bravo61 had this Barry Sanders highlight reel. With fantasy football and the 2008 season a few months away I just wanted to feel good about Lions football before the season started and they completely dump a turd on me.

Someone Pinch Me

I must be sleeping, the Detroit Lions are 2 and 0! Are you telling me that my Sundays are no longer going to be filled with anger, frustration, envy for my out of state friends football team. Don't get me wrong I'm not eatin' the corn bread or sippin' the kool aid, I just get that feeling that this team believes in itself and can be competitive in a high percentage of games. Kitna said they will win ten games,well I've got a hard time gettin on board with that one, I did think 7 or 8, and that was me going out on a limb, but now I feel a little better about bein' that homer and blindly following the Lions yet once again, hell the payoff could be....dare I say....the playoffs!? I dare, I dare. If I am made to eat my words, well its just another disappointing football season, and I am so callous to that now, it doesn't even hurt anymore.


Happier times. The Lions showed a lot of heart this past Sunday, Kitna really showed me that he wanted to win, and I have a lot of respect for him and his game play, I mean putting your shoulder down and smackin Minnesota's "D" in the mouth, awesome. What player on the offense didn't push it for extra yardage? I didn't see the stereotypical Lion fall down in the fetal position with each catch or run. What about the famous "run like he's on fire to get to the sidelines" play(short of the first down of course). The wide outs fought hard for extra yards, they got open to be easy targets for Kitna, and did some nice down field blocking.

The defense also really stepped up, and it is now obvious that Coach Marinelli knows defensive players(D.White). You've got to say that Ernie Sims is a hard workin middle linebacker who didn't take a play off. The Shawn Rogers/Cory Redding D-line did a good job stuffin up the middle lanes, and applied some good pressure on the Minn. QB.

We all have to face the facts, the Lion's looked pretty damn good! Pretty much everyone on the team contributed, hence the picture of Brian Calhoun(and 29 was my Al Bundy high school football number). It feels good to go to work on a Monday and not have to read about how crappy the Lions played and what jerk are we going to draft first or second, because the season is already over or who should get fired, blah, blah , blah who drove naked thru a drive thru, blah! I could get used to this, but I know it could be a dream.....by the way, don't pinch me, let me enjoy this dream.

Side note: Thank you Calvin Johnson for not being a long hold out pain-in-the-ass!

Vick Pleads Guilty in Dogfighting Case

The Associated Press reports that Mike Vick Pleads Guilty today. Its almost not even worth commenting on, Vick and the Judges will take care of everything.


Monday, August 27, 2007; 11:23 AM
RICHMOND, Va. -- A judge accepted Michael Vick's guilty plea Monday to a federal dogfighting charge and scheduled a Dec. 10 sentencing date that could send the fallen NFL superstar to prison. The suspended Atlanta Falcons quarterback entered his guilty plea before U.S. District Judge Henry E. Hudson.


"Are you entering the plea of guilty to a conspiracy charge because you are in fact guilty?" Hudson asked. Vick replied, "Yes, sir." Hudson also emphasized that he is not bound by sentencing guidelines and can impose the maximum sentence of up to five years in prison. "You're taking your chances here. You'll have to live with whatever decision I make," Hudson. In his written plea filed in federal court Friday, Vick admitted helping kill six to eight pit bulls and supplying money for gambling on the fights. He said he did not personally place any bets or share in any winnings.


The NFL suspended him indefinitely and without pay Friday after his plea agreement was filed. Merely associating with gamblers can trigger a lifetime ban under the league's personal conduct policy. The case began in late April when authorities conducting a drug investigation of Vick's cousin raided the former Virginia Tech star's rural Surry County property and seized dozens of dogs, some injured, and equipment commonly used in dogfighting.

Guilty Plea!

Well its time to talk about the Vick issue. I've done a hell-of-a job keeping my mouth shut, and waiting until some real proof or even waiting until after the courts passed judgement on Mike Vick. The time has come to call a duck a duck or in this case a dog murdering fuck!

If you are on the side of being lied to and think that bored millionaire's are some sort of above the law God, please stop reading and check yourself into rehab or the local mental hospital!

The thing that really pisses me off is that with the damn plea bargain we will never get all of the dirt that this low-life and his cronies did to these innocent animals. To take your own hands or rope, and try to hang a dog to death is cold as hell, but when the hanging doesn't work you then try to drowned the dog, also heard electrocution was used. This heinous barbaric act was done by and or paid for by an NFL Quarterback! Why? What reason would you have to do this or even better be a part of? My opinion is that he has a sick twisted side to be any part of this operation.


We are all capable of seeing a pattern in our friends, family, and so on so why not these selfish S*O*B sport figures or celebrities. Maybe we should just look at it this way... Marketing of a product, in the major sports leagues the athletes are a product or commodity and will sell you them through paper media, radio and the TV of course. With contracts in the 10's of 100's of millions of dollars it is an investment worth protecting at any cost, that would mean right up to the very end. Your probably saying to your self "Bull shit", but if marketing didn't work why does every company with a product or service have a Marketing Department.

It seems like I'm getting off course so lets get back to it, the Commissioner of the NFL is obviously into cleaning the league up of any "bad character types", and I've got to tell you that I think he is doing a fairly good job. It is a privilege to play in any major league sports, and look at some of these crimes, many of them felonies. Felonies that if you or I committed we would most definitely do jail time, with very little opportunity to plea bargain. So I say screw him he gets everything coming to him, and the worst the better.

Maybe the major sport leagues need to come up with a hobby program to keep these bored a-holes out of trouble. I hear a dancing reality show has kept some retired stars out of trouble.