Another week of licking our wounds fellow POD'ers as we got physically outmuscled by the Vikes.  Here's to a W this week (hopefully) against a team (Cleveland) who is almost as inept as our beloved Lions.

Anyway, I usually think of the 1990's as good, solid years for the Lions.  They were consistent playoff threats and always seemed to be on the brink of exploding, but never reached those anticipated heights (we were sort of like the Texans over the past several years).  Anyway, sandwiched in between playoff appearances in 1995 and 1997 was 1996.   I remember this season in particular because I felt hopeless as the Lions found unbeleivable ways to lose games during the season (sound familiar??)  All of this losing, of course, after starting the season strongly, entering the bye week at 4-3 (I think) and posting impressive offensive statistics. 

However, coming off the bye we lost every game the rest of the season except one (the only reason I remember this is my brother was living in this city at the time and he called me to congratulate me).