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Don't think of me as crazy

I like a lot of the optimism I've been reading in some of the recent posts. I know we have all been fooled before, especially over the last 9 years. This year however, does genuinely feel different. I am hopeful for the possibility of more wins than loses in our future, even if they come slowly. 

With that being said, i live in California, and rarely, if ever, make it home to Detroit during football season, but I've made sure its okay with the wife if the unthinkable happened and the Lions made the Superbowl, that I could pay just about whatever for a ticket home to Motown to watch with friends in family .

Now my question to everybody on here is this, if the Lions somehow make it there( obviously not this season, and probably not next) would you rather be at the game, enjoying it in person, or would you rather be home (or if its not your home, Detroit) to be part of the party that would take place if they actually won the Lombardi trophy? 

I feel like Detroit would be crazier than I could ever remember it being after the championships I have been there for. What are your thoughts? 

 

 

This is a FanPost and does not necessarily reflect the views of Pride of Detroit's main writer, Sean, or the site in general. FanPosts are valued expressions of opinion by passionate and knowledgeable fans.

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If we were to ever make a Superbowl

I’d probably be here on POD with my fellow Lions fans. I’d love to go to any Lions game, let alone a Superbowl involving them.

2009 = The start of the Lions Golden Age (We hope).

by Hyperion Ecta on Jun 3, 2009 3:43 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

You know... that is a tough question

Nothing is like being at a game… especially one where there is optimism or something on the line. The atmosphere is simply intoxicating… maybe that’s because everyone is intoxicated, I don’t know. Either way, there’s nothing quite like it.

That said, I can follow the game much better in the comfort of my own home. No waiting in line for beer, food or restrooms. You surely won’t get stuck next to the smelly idiot without a shirt that got completely schnockered by the end of the first quarter and is now slumped in his seat dining in his own flatulance (yes, that’s a true story). I can see the action much better on my 52" Samsung with HD than from the nosebleed section of someone else’s home stadium. But is that enough not to want to be there for the Lions first Super Bowl? What a conundrum!

I’d probably watch at home with a few of my closest, die-hard fan friends. But oh, would I be tempted to try and get tickets!

by DrewsLions on Jun 3, 2009 8:13 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

At home

I’d love to see a Lions game in Detroit, and I’d love to see a Super Bowl, but I don’t think I’d combine them. The Super Bowl has long ago stopped giving two craps about the average fan, and the stadium is filled mostly with corporate types and celebrities that just want to be seen at the big one.
On the other hand, if Detroit’s in the game and you’re at a party surrounded by friends and fans, then it’ll be nuts when they host the Lombardi, you’ll have the best camera angles in the house and memories will last forever.

by MP hawkfan on Jun 3, 2009 9:56 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

You've got a good point...

about the corporate stiffs (I say that at the expense of being a corporate employee myself). But most of those guys are there for the experience, not to root for their team.

by DrewsLions on Jun 3, 2009 3:16 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

IF? Did you say IF or WHEN?

Oh, yeah, brother, we’ll be there. No question about it.
Nothing in this life is EVER free – and NOTHING WORTH HAVING is ever cheap or easy…
we’ve paid our dues, THE CURSE IS OVER, and OUR TIME HAS FINALLY COME (or at least is very near).
We’re about to execute the ne’er b4 seen, phenomenal “Schwartzian 360”, so GET READY TO ROAR!
Oh, yeah, the question at hand.
I used to go to games every year, but am now disabled and haven’t been to one since my accident…WHEN we go, however, I’ll be there in HONOLULU BLUE!!!!!!!!!

by myPride on Jun 3, 2009 10:57 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Not true not true

my woman is cheap AND eazy!!!!1 ll :)

by davis0169 on Jun 3, 2009 3:10 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Ya she is...

jk D…ya, I hear ya, but home is where the heart is….I’m a displaced D-Towner, now livin in da U.P. eh! And even though we’re in Michigan, most of these yoopers are Cheeseheads, as Green bay is only 3 hours away, where as Detroit, is about 8-9 hours, depending. But, I lived in Cali, the Cajon Zone, Eastside San Diego, Phoenix, Denver, but I always stayed true to the Silver&Blue. actually, seeing the Cards in it last year gave me hope! I did fly from Phoenix to vegas, to put money on Denver, to beat Green Bay, that was nice to see somebody put them down, there was some P.O.d cheeseheads that day, I can tell you.

by LTownDown on Jun 5, 2009 1:03 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

I probably couldn't or wouldn't want to dish out the money for ticket prices

So if I couldn’t get hooked up with a media credential, I would just watch it from home.

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by Sean Yuille on Jun 3, 2009 11:45 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

At home

watchin on the big screen. No matter where you watch it from, when they win you are going to have other grown men shed a tear with you, which is kinda akward. I ran into that problem when Carr was carried out after the Capital One game. Most my buddies have let me live it down by now though, just not my wife lol

by CR on Jun 3, 2009 12:41 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

I will try to be at the game

If it is within my budget and close enough to home. If not, I will watch at home with my friends. There is nothing like being at the game in person, but as long as you have some good friends around you, watching at home is good too.

by KDawg on Jun 3, 2009 1:42 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

I'd start selling my plasma

the day we win the division and clinch a homefield game! And I’m not joking!

by davis0169 on Jun 3, 2009 3:13 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Hmmmm

If Detroit made it to the Superbowl they probably won’t televise it. More than likely it will be pre-empted by womens golf. I’ll have to listen to it on a Canadian website, like all other Lions games on the west coast. Besides, it is too hard to fly with guns these days, so a trip home to Detroit is out of the qusetion.

by OregonEmigrant on Jun 3, 2009 3:43 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Let's see Utopia or Shangra-La

 I would without a doubt want to be with the friends and family that suffered through the
bad years, at home or at a superbowl party, after the victory I’ll be the naked blue and silver fool shooting roman candles out of my convertable as I drive to Ford Field for the Month long tail-gate party only leaving to watch the parade..

by Runnin' Rebel on Jun 3, 2009 8:44 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

I would be sweating the game so much

I think I would watch it alone in my living room. I don’t think I could take other people being around.

by ATL Lion on Jun 3, 2009 9:18 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

the last time the Lions won the division...

I wait outside the Dome. Overnight. In -10 degree weather. With a wind chill of -25. Was fourth in line. Meet Greg Landry’s Grandson. He was firth in line. Lions spanked the Cowboys 38-6. One of my greatest experiences. 1991 was a great year considering the Lions of today. Well, hopefully the Lions of yesterday.

by JCruize on Jun 3, 2009 9:34 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

That great that...

you got to see the one team highlight in the last 50 years. I would have loved to have been there.

by DrewsLions on Jun 4, 2009 8:05 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

I had to work that day...

But I remember it very well, driving around my delivery truck with the game on… of course If I’d have known then, that I would never see another playoff victory, I’d have called in sick.

by FeelingBlu on Jun 5, 2009 2:08 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

no its ot a dream

the Lions are legit…. but one step at a time.. they are doing the right things.. if they continue as they are …the days of the Lions being a laughing stock WILL BE OVER.. give it time.. you will see a difference.. teams will be shocked and stunned with the change and will probably underestimate them.. hopefully too late

GO LIONS 2009! the transformation begins.

by DINORDO on Jun 4, 2009 2:05 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Downtown...

This one is easy for me. Since a meteor shower must have destroyed 30 of the other teams and cities in the NFL for the Lions to make it to a Superbowl, Ford Field would be the next best option for the Big Game and I would thusly satisfy both options with one trip downtown.
Seriously though, downtown Detroit would be the only place I’d want to be when the Lions play in a Superbowl. The atmosphere would be insane, even without the team or game being played there. I’m assuming the organization would have enough sense to do some kind of Superbowl viewing party at Ford Field, and it would be like no other Superbowl party we could even imagine.
Of course the next day, the entire State of Michigan would see it’s highest single day death total of all time as thousands upon thousands of our parents and grandparents would slip off into oblivion after having finally seen something they thought they never would.

by Mushy on Jun 4, 2009 10:23 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

lol

The planets will align early and a catostoprhic event will occur, sending us into armageddon and the end of the world.

by KDawg on Jun 4, 2009 1:01 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

I agree

With being downtown for the big game.

by BtotheLT on Jun 5, 2009 8:02 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

What a bummer man...

Call me crazy, but wouldn’t it be messed up. If we were un-defeated to start the 2012 season and then the Mayans F@#$ us with the whole end of the world S%$& and we never get our ring!

by j16941 on Jun 5, 2009 5:59 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

lol

So you saw that Nostradomus show too huh? December 21, 2012…..at least the beginning of the end of the world, if not the end of the world on that day.

by KDawg on Jun 5, 2009 1:25 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Dude!

I was just thinking the same thing the other day! weird, man, weird…

by JazzyBBP on Jun 8, 2009 6:45 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

That’s when the second part of Peter Jackson’s two part Hobbit movie is supposed to be released. Just great. The end of the world will probably happen while I’m in the theater waiting for the movie to start.

by James L on Jun 8, 2009 9:07 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

LOL

What a way to go out JL….waiting in line for a Hobbit movie…..ROFL!!

At least it could be the next Harry Potter movie or something…..j/k….:o)

by KDawg on Jun 8, 2009 9:11 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Sorry

I’m not a Potter fan. I read Tolkein as a kid and I loved The Lord of the Rings movies. Did you ever notice that most NFL kickers look like hobbits. (next to the rest of the team)

by James L on Jun 8, 2009 10:38 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Here Here!!

Not only read them but the sillmarlion also cant wait to see Smog the dragon on the big screen. And yes I love the whole damn Star Wars movies best damn graffics for all of them.

by davis0169 on Jun 8, 2009 11:48 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Read the Silmarillion (took some serious concentration) and The Children of Hurin. They could make movies for years based on some of that stuff. But to keep this football related, here’s a clip of Samwise Gamgee getting that sack.

by James L on Jun 9, 2009 11:54 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

I also read the The Hobbit and the trilogy

and watched all of the movies so far. I love Tolkien. My comment was a poor attempt at humor I guess.

by KDawg on Jun 9, 2009 9:36 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

I've watched the extended editions of the LOTR trilogy many times

Would be up their with my favourite movies of all time.

2009 = The start of the Lions Golden Age (We hope).

by Hyperion Ecta on Jun 9, 2009 11:37 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

I just finished going through them again. It took me a week and a half. In fact, that’s probably why I brought up Tolkein in the first place. After most of my favorite TV shows ended, I started grabbing the DVD’s to ease my pain. At least the Red Wings are still playing.

Isn’t this scene awesome

by James L on Jun 10, 2009 11:45 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

My favourite scene/battle from the trilogy is Helm's Deep

I know most people pick Pelennor Fields, but I love the darkness and the atmosphere of Helm’s Deep.

And yes, the warg battle is awesome.

2009 = The start of the Lions Golden Age (We hope).

by Hyperion Ecta on Jun 10, 2009 8:20 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

simple fact, the best place to watch a football game is on tv. Though that atmosphere would certainly be worth it to be there. And yes the city of detroit would come UNGLUED if the lions were to ever……….well i can’t even bring myself to say it. Detroit has great great sports fans. But they will only support teams that put out a good product. Thats why tiger stadium was dead the last few years, and it is also why 6 of the 8 home games for the lions were not sellouts last year. We don’t like being fooled, and WCF has tried to fool us too many times. But if the lions finally come through and put a good product out there, the fans will be as passionate as any. Because as much as we love our hockey, and baseball is the national past time, football IS KING. And here in detroit we have been starving. The lions seem to be showing promise that they havent in the past. But we’ve ALL drank the kool aid before, and that is why so many of us are very VERY cautious.

by JazzyBBP on Jun 8, 2009 12:21 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

KISS

After thinking about it you would be safer out there because the day our Lions win a superbowl Motown would “Burn baby burn”, You know there would be a love/hate there with the firefighters if they won, And we would know that hell has froze over also, But I do think it will be very soon, assuming that this front office keeps on going the way they are that is. I really think we are going to win the division this year but who knows would love to see best NT DL or OL as first 1 2 picks next year or if there is a bad ass Corner. 11-5 and norris champs this year!

by davis0169 on Jun 8, 2009 11:41 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

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