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Timing is everything, there are no coincidences...


At the end of a day when all i could think was Lions Football...all I could talk was Lions Football...craving one more set of highlights...there is Chris "Boomer" Berman on ESPN Monday Night Football...calling out names like Bobby Layne and Otto Graham.  How they provided some of the best games of the fifties.  HOLD ON...who's name did I just hear you say Chris?

On a day when the Lions honour players past, the present day Lions don't lie down when again down by 21pts in the first quarter.  On the coat tails of a young rookie quarterback, Matt Stafford actually the youngest QB to throw for five td's ever and the first rookie since '37 to throw for five, these present day Lions fight and claw and scrape themselves up off the turf to win on a play with zero's on the clock.  Against those same Browns that used to go toe to toe with our Lions...providing some of the best games of the decade.  The QB's again were Otto Graham and yes, Bobby Layne.  All stories have a start and an end.  Did we just watch the end of the Curse of Bobby Lane?  Come at the hands of the little kid from the same high school in Texas that Lane attended?  On a day when the Lions recognize Lions past...but not Bobby Layne?  Did we just watch our team start the next story?  Are we seeing the light at the end of the proverbial "Proudly rebuilding since 1957" tunnel...damn I hope so.

 

Some of you may also have caught this on ESPN...so sorry if I'm late on the thought process...but this one made me sit up and say ....huh...I have a feeling we will be looking back on that game for years to come.

 

Happy Thanksgiving from your Canadian neighbours (yeah I spelled it right) indeed!!

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