Lions Notes: Players, Coaches Visit Pro Football Hall Of Fame

by Sean Yuille on Aug 19, 2011 12:21 AM EDT in Detroit Lions Notes

The Detroit Lions made a stop at the Pro Football Hall of Fame on Thursday while traveling to Cleveland, and quite a few interesting pictures were posted from the visit. There was a picture of Jason Hanson, Don Muhlbach and Nick Harris with the jersey Hanson was wearing when he became the franchise leader in 50-yard field goals. There was also a picture of the jersey that was cut off Matthew Stafford from the Browns game in 2009 and a picture of Barry Sanders' jersey from the 1991 season. Ndamukong Suh took a number of pictures, including one with Charlie Sanders in front of Sanders' Hall of Fame bust, one with a statue of Mean Joe Greene and one with a picture of Reggie White.

My personal favorite of all the photos was the one of Nate Burleson with the Vince Lombardi Trophy:

This was Burleson's caption for the photo: "I been chasing her for soooo long! Soon baby...soon we'll be together!"
Dave Birkett got a hold of the salary numbers for the Lions' free agent signings. Stephen Tulloch, as we already know, is set to make $3.25 million in 2011. Eric Wright's deal is for $2 million and includes a $1.5 million signing bonus. Both Justin Durant and Chris Houston have base salaries worth $1 million for 2011. Durant received a $2.75 million signing bonus and Houston's deal has $2 million in guaranteed money.
Tony Dungy said on Thursday that Ndamukong Suh is going to have to "change some of the things he does" in order to avoid penalties, fines and potentially a suspension down the road.
Derrick Williams and Nate Burleson had some fun with Calvin Johnson while he was sleeping on the bus to Cleveland.
The Lions-Browns game is going to be shown on NFL Network at 10 a.m. on Sunday.
Pro Football Talk has a breakdown of how the order for the NFL Supplemental Draft is determined.

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Those are some great picks

Nice to see the guys have some fun. Time to take care of business 2morrow. Go Lions!

by fiendishdr.wu on Aug 19, 2011 12:50 AM EDT reply actions

Awesome, Nate is one funny fella

by Hyperion Ecta on Aug 19, 2011 2:51 AM EDT reply actions

LMFAO

Nice, that picture of Nate is now tiled on my desktop background

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by Nate D. on Aug 19, 2011 6:51 AM EDT reply actions

Haha! Me too! I set that as my background before I even read the comments!

I doin’ the “center” thing though instead of the “tile”

Don’t want to get too crazy…

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by UndaDawg on Aug 19, 2011 10:06 AM EDT up reply actions

few guys were tweeting picks

Durant had one of Barrys bust

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by The Profiler on Aug 19, 2011 9:01 AM EDT via mobile reply actions

Does anyone know what time the Lion’s were at the Hall of Fame? My son and I were there from 12:30 to 5:00 on Thursday – in our Lion’s gear, but we didn’t see any familiar Lion’s faces? There couldn’t have been more than 30 people at the Hall – think I would have noticed real Football players. I am a bit ticked off that no one at the Hall said anything to us about their visit. We were the only Lion’s fans there.

by Ace27 on Aug 20, 2011 6:55 AM EDT reply actions