Tuesday Notes: Lions Claim OT Kirk Barton

by Sean Yuille on Apr 28, 2009 6:28 AM EDT in Detroit Lions Notes

Just a heads up, I plan on posting scouting reports of every Lions pick in the next week or so and will start posting them tomorrow.
The Lions claimed offensive tackle Kirk Barton off waivers. Barton most recently played for the Bengals, though he was with three other teams last season.
The draft page on the Lions' official site contains links to transcripts of conference calls and press conferences with almost every pick and Jim Schwartz and Martin Mayhew.
Below is a video of Matthew Stafford's appearance on The Late Show last night. It was actually pretty funny, aside from the digs at Detroit, anyways.

Stafford is going to be featured on E:60 tonight (7 p.m. ET on ESPN) with Maria Sharapova. Apparently she gave him a makeover in preparation for the draft. Honest question: Would you rather spend a day with Sharapova or be the top pick of the draft? I'm leaning toward a day with the world's hottest tennis player.

The Free Press has a photo gallery from the draft party at Ford Field.
Fans at the draft party apparently booed both of the Lions' first-round picks when they were announced.
ESPN put together a consensus list of draft grades, and the Lions actually came out with the sixth highest GPA.
The Dolphins released quarterback and former second-round pick John Beck.
Roger Goodell put to rest a report that the NFL was considering having a Super Bowl in London. I hate that they play any games over there, so to have a Super Bowl in London would just be ridiculous. This is America's sport, and Super Bowls belong in the U.S.
Just like Pride of Detroit's NCAA tournament pool, I came in first-place in the POD group in NFL.com's Predict the Pick contest.

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Looks like the media...

is match making…

by CLF on Apr 28, 2009 7:10 AM EDT reply actions

Let's hope so

I’ll be 100% OK with more Maria Sharapova around Detroit

Go get ’er Staff!

by Nate D. on Apr 28, 2009 9:31 AM EDT up reply actions

Did you ever see...

… her famous camel-toe shot when she was serving at Wimbledon a few years ago. Wow! That’s worth the price of air fare!

by Tigernut on Apr 29, 2009 5:10 PM EDT up reply actions

“Just like Pride of Detroit’s NCAA tournament pool(I’m better than you here), I came in first-place in the POD group in NFL.com’s Predict the Pick contest(AND I’m better than you there). You forgot to mention your past fantasy ass kickin!! JK shaun. Keep up the good work bro….I check the site daily.

by Scotty G on Apr 28, 2009 8:18 AM EDT reply actions

London

They should just throw them the Pro Bowl. No one here cares about it and it’ll have enough star power to attract some fans over there. And if it doesn’t, again….no one here cares about it.

by wumanchu01 on Apr 28, 2009 3:32 PM EDT reply actions