Let me get this strait, you live in a foreign state, and you chose to be a Lions fan? The only reason i even follow them is becuse it’s shoved down my throught here in the metro Detroit area.

Great letter and I believe it sums up the feelings of every true Detroit Lion fan. I was a small shild when the Lions were last world champions in 1957, that’s right 1957! What a terrible franchise and every more terrible ownership and management. Advice to the Ford family, sell, sell, sell, please, please, please!

This letter is correct, but it is nothing new or profound. I have been saying the exact same thing for 20 years. Things like a winning attitudes, a winning corporate or team culture, and ultimately success on the field start at the top. Bottom line, Ford accepts mediocrity and with him at the top it doesn’t matter who the GM, coach or players are. The Lions will be losers. Period.

The author should remember that Ford is a millionaire a thousand times over, and has had the financial resources to correct the situation for years. Your letter, eloquent as it may be, will not change the fact that he simply doesn’t care. An owner’s job is simple, you hire good people, fire bad ones and write the checks. That’s it. You don’t have to know anything about football. But you do need to know about people and have a strong commitment to excellence. Ford has neither, and all the letters in the world will not change that.

I know it will make no difference but having put it down in writing in a public forum gives me some satisfaction; for this, I thank the author. The Lions organization is a complete fraud and an embarrassment to it’s once loyal fans around the nation. There should be no question in anybody’s mind why they don’t show up on NFL radar. There is simply nothing positive to talk or report about game after game and year after year.

wow that was truly an honest, descriptive, and emotional letter. i can agree whole heartadley. i have watched the lions ever since i can remember ( i am 24 now) my dad was a long time fan so ill guess it was about my birth that i started watching and i dont know, i love the lions. but every week it honestly breaks my heart and makes me sick to my stomach to see the team i support in spite of all the scrutiny live up to exactly what the critics say. i read all the blogs i watch all the tv and read all the articles to see what my beloved lions have planned. no things will not change untill the upper ups (millen, ford) change but some day, some day i want to be proud to say im a lions fan. but maybe truly maybe the problem lies with us the true lions fans that stand year after year at the back of the manure wagon and accept what they give us and support them all the same maybe it us. with out us there would be no lions without the fans there would be no ford ownership millen run travesity of a business. maybe it is us to blame…….

I am only 27. I’ve been a Lions fan since birth myself. I am a TRUE fan. The truest they get! I wear my Lions attire throughout the season despite the banter. I watch the games every Sunday. Even the preseason. I am that fan that yells hollers and screams at the television. I cheer and scold, I give play orders. I read articles on them daily, if there are any. When my son was born I paid ridiculous prices for several newborn Lions outfits. Now that he is four, he and I watch the games and practice stances and he “tackles” me during commercials. I plan to make a fun little tradition out of it for him (and my daughter too) as it was for me when I was young. Sometimes with their reputation as bad as it is I doubt myself, but no matter how bad it gets I will always be a fan. On the other hand I cannot even begin to express my sadness, anger, disgust, remorse, frustration, disappointment, even spoiled hopes and dreams.

Maybe I am a part of the problem. Maybe we are all a part of the problem for supporting a team, a franchise that is doing so poorly. They have no reason to care how bad it is as long as their bottom line isn’t a red figure.

Millen certainly hasn’t done any good. However, name someone who would want to replace him with the mess he has made? I certainly would not! The average GM would rather walk in make a few minor tweaks and take credit for something that nearly there to begin with. Not that I am saying they are lazy or take the easy street, but if you have a choice between a few minor tweaks, or a major overhaul, which would you take?

Perhaps it would be wise to sell the team. However I fear them doing so. If they sell I am certain the team will no longer be in Michigan. Between their record and the poor economy here, what reason is there to continue in Detroit, MI? And as a fan in Michigan, I can promise it just wouldn’t be the same to support them elsewhere.

With that said… I beg Mr. Illich to buy the team. Finagle Ford into giving it up. Keep in Detroit as you have with our Red Wings and Tigers. Hire the right men for the job. Make the fans proud once again!

I agree that Ford and Millan are a lot of the problem with the Detriot lions ! BUT, i don’t believe that they are the only problem! There is something rotten in Detriot. I saw a ew of the practices early this year and all the pre season games. And there is no way that i believe that our team is as bad as they look right now! You know how we don’t like Mr Ford ? Well i believe that there are others who don’t like him either and they would do anything to stop him from winning ! don’t know if it is someone in the upper teir of the NFL or who it is . But it has to be someone! I have thought for years that the refs have well taken care of to help the lions on thier way to defeat! And i’m not saying that this true ,but all indacations piont to that ! I mean come on ther has been noone in the leage who has ever benn as bad as the lions !year after year after year! and i know all of you have seen the stinking lousey calls that the lions have had thuout our lifetime! And i really really don’t want to believe this but i think its something to look at (The Players )!!!!! some of our players and i dont think i have to metion who they are ! Just look how long theve been in game! It’s getting close to retire ment for a few of them . It wold’t take much to convince a guy in that possition that he needs a better retirement plan! And then look at the media in Detriot there allwayson top of running the lions into the ground every year even before they (the players ) ever get on the feild! Great job aye! just come to work and make a lot of negative comments about the lions! oh! did you here the enterview they had with TJ Osullavin ! allthey did was try to blame the coaches and staff of the lions for his leaving ! Of coarse they didn’t bring him back .We have two good Q-Backs Orlofski and Stanton!!! Oh and coach i respect what you say ! But one thing you say is produce and Kitna not only didi not produce but he gave the game AWAY!