1-15 vs 0-16

[Frimp]

If 17-0 can live on forever, then certainly 0-16 will, too.  You can recover from it, of course.  The Lions will someday be an elite team again.  But it will always be remembered, and 40 years from now, whenever a team starts 0-6 or 0-7, the footage will come up talking about the 2008 Lions.

Again? 

[JVides]

^^^^^ Hmmm...good point.

[MyGodWearsAHoodie]

Again? 

My thoughts exactly.

[YoFuggedaboutit]

Don't count them out for good.  They got rid of Matt Millen, and Rod Marinelli is definitely a goner if this team loses to Green Bay next week..... probably gone even if they win. 

But if they can find a Coach/GM/VP- Football Operations as capable as ours, they might be back sooner than you think. 

[NADS]

C'mon now, the Lions were kicking ass and taking names in 1932! 

I still say they should move back to Portsmouth or be the new team in LA.  Everyone else will be leaving Detroit so why not the Lions?

[BigDaddyFin]

The problem isn't so much the Lions being worse as it is Coach McKay cracking all those jokes about his own team.  That's what lives on in the highlights.  His attitude was kind of like look we suck these guys are terrible it's going to be this way for a little while what the fuck do you want me to do? 

Marinelli is all serious and sad about it all the time, and he looks so embattled it kind of takes the fun out of it.  If he cracked a few jokes about the whole thing it might not be so bad.  The press asks him questions about it and you can see in his eyes he wants to snap and choke the reporter but he hasn't yet. 

[EDGECRUSHER]

The Lions are reportedly interested in Randy Mueller. He wasn't the best GM, but he unfairly takes the blame for everything that went wrong. He would be a good start for the Lions.

[MyGodWearsAHoodie]

C'mon now, the Lions were kicking ass and taking names in 1932! 

No they weren't, they only won half their games that season 6-2-4.  (Good thing McNabb wasn't around 4 ties, he would be real confused)

Maybe you were thinking of 1931, when they went 11-3.  But they still fell short of the Greenbay Packers. 

Or 1935 when they won the championship. They repeated again in 1953 and 57. 

[NADS]

Yea, 1931.  That the first year in Detroit?

[MyGodWearsAHoodie]

^^^ no, in '31 they were still Portsmouth Spartans.

In '34 they moved to Detroit and went 10-3 but didn't make the playoffs, the 13-0 Bears won the division and then lost to the Giants.

(The '72 Dolphins owe several Giants teams a debt of gratitude)   

[YoFuggedaboutit]

The Lions are reportedly interested in Randy Mueller. He wasn't the best GM, but he unfairly takes the blame for everything that went wrong. He would be a good start for the Lions.

That would be a good fit for him.

[NADS]

^^^ no, in '31 they were still Portsmouth Spartans.

In '34 they moved to Detroit and went 10-3 but didn't make the playoffs, the 13-0 Bears won the division and then lost to the Giants.

(The '72 Dolphins owe several Giants teams a debt of gratitude)   

I'll have to look it up and figure out what I was trying to say.  I thought the Lions won a championship their first year in Detroit. 

[MyGodWearsAHoodie]

I'll have to look it up and figure out what I was trying to say.  I thought the Lions won a championship their first year in Detroit. 

not according to http://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/det/

lions won a championship their second year in detriot. 

[YoFuggedaboutit]

They did make it to the NFC Title game in 1991.... but Washington was unstoppable that year.

[Fred Finstoned]

Hey lets not forget 1968 when Alan Alda played for them!!