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1991...a new look back for Lions fans

Tough seeing the Utley injury. Watching that game on TV still haunts me. 1991 for most of old enough was the best season ever, sad to say. Won in GB and won a playoff game. To the good ole days.

I remember years earlier, before Barry, we only got to watch the road games. No sellouts so home games were never on.

The Silverdome was huge to a little kid. Like Collasus of Rhodes 8th wonder of the world huge. To sell out the Silverdome and avoid blackouts companies used to buy out huge blocks of tickets. In 1991 I was 10. I went to a game that year with my buddies from school whose dad was a huge Lions fan. He got the tickets from Kmart which had bought out a block of blackout tickets, face value? $7.00. The tickets were so high up in the dome we probably would have had a better view from Inks TV set. So being kids we just walked down and sat in the first row behind the Lions bench. No one said anything. Barry rips off a huge run and comes back to the sideline and drinks half a cup of Gatorade and puts the cup back on the table. I ask one of the sideline security to bring me the cup and finish off what's left. After the game was over Luther Ellis gave one of my buddies his game gloves. We all had the time of our lives, pretty much solidifying my eternal Lions love.
 
The Silverdome was huge to a little kid. Like Collasus of Rhodes 8th wonder of the world huge. To sell out the Silverdome and avoid blackouts companies used to buy out huge blocks of tickets. In 1991 I was 10. I went to a game that year with my buddies from school whose dad was a huge Lions fan. He got the tickets from Kmart which had bought out a block of blackout tickets, face value? $7.00. The tickets were so high up in the dome we probably would have had a better view from Inks TV set. So being kids we just walked down and sat in the first row behind the Lions bench. No one said anything. Barry rips off a huge run and comes back to the sideline and drinks half a cup of Gatorade and puts the cup back on the table. I ask one of the sideline security to bring me the cup and finish off what's left. After the game was over Luther Ellis gave one of my buddies his game gloves. We all had the time of our lives, pretty much solidifying my eternal Lions love.

Cool. The silverdome was big. I was always mad a game wasn't on when they only sold 70k tickets, which was more than most stadiums held.

My first game was actually at Tiger stadium.. Only saw the one game there.
 
It was fun tailgating for Lions games. Drink beer, grill out, play catch with a football...things you are supposed to do before a game. The Silverdome was perfect for that!
 
It was fun tailgating for Lions games. Drink beer, grill out, play catch with a football...things you are supposed to do before a game. The Silverdome was perfect for that!

With the emptiness at the time when my friend and I and our Dads, I was like 12 at the time, we would have a mini football with us. Every stoppage of play we'd get out of our seats and play catch. That was fun.
 
Cool. The silverdome was big. I was always mad a game wasn't on when they only sold 70k tickets, which was more than most stadiums held.

My first game was actually at Tiger stadium.. Only saw the one game there.

Same here that routinely happened. We'd be waiting to see if the game was blacked out or not and we'd have sold like 77k tickets! I never had the chance to watch a Lions game at Tigers Stadium that would have been awesome.
 
Just to give us a little look back in time... this list represents the mind of kids graduating in 2015, who were not alive when the Lions last won in Green Bay....

Andre the Giant, River Phoenix, Frank Zappa, Arthur Ashe and the Commodore 64 have always been dead.

Their classmates could include Taylor Momsen, Angus Jones, Howard Stern's daughter Ashley, and the Dilley Sextuplets.

There has always been an Internet ramp onto the information highway.

Ferris Bueller and Sloane Peterson could be their parents.

States and Velcro parents have always been requiring that they wear their bike helmets.

The only significant labor disputes in their lifetimes have been in major league sports.

There have nearly always been at least two women on the Supreme Court, and women have always commanded U.S. Navy ships.

They ?swipe? cards, not merchandise.

As they?ve grown up on websites and cell phones, adult experts have constantly fretted about their alleged deficits of empathy and concentration.

Their school?s ?blackboards? have always been getting smarter.

?Don?t touch that dial!??.what dial?

American tax forms have always been available in Spanish.

More Americans have always traveled to Latin America than to Europe.

Amazon has never been just a river in South America.

Refer to LBJ, and they might assume you're talking about LeBron James.

All their lives, Whitney Houston has always been declaring ?I Will Always Love You.?

O.J. Simpson has always been looking for the killers of Nicole Simpson and Ronald Goldman.

Women have never been too old to have children.

Japan has always been importing rice.

Jim Carrey has always been bigger than a pet detective.

We have never asked, and they have never had to tell.

Life has always been like a box of chocolates.

They?ve always gone to school with Mohammed and Jesus.

John Wayne Bobbitt has always slept with one eye open.

The Communist Party has never been the official political party in Russia.

?Yadda, yadda, yadda? has always come in handy to make long stories short.

Video games have always had ratings.

Chicken soup has always been soul food.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show has always been available on TV.

Jimmy Carter has always been a smiling elderly man who shows up on TV to promote fair elections and disaster relief.

Arnold Palmer has always been a drink.

Dial-up is soooooooooo last century!

Women have always been kissing women on television.
Their older siblings have told them about the days when Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake and Christina Aguilera were Mouseketeers.

Most have grown up with a faux Christmas Tree in the house at the holidays.
They?ve always been able to dismiss boring old ideas with ?been there, done that, gotten the T-shirt.?

The bloody conflict between the government and a religious cult has always made Waco sound a little whacko.

Unlike their older siblings, they spent bedtime on their backs until they learned to roll over.

Music has always been available via free downloads.

Grown-ups have always been arguing about health care policy.

Moderate amounts of red wine and baby aspirin have always been thought good for the heart.

Sears has never sold anything out of a Big Book that could also serve as a doorstop.

The United States has always been shedding fur.

Electric cars have always been humming in relative silence on the road.

No longer known for just gambling and quickie divorces, Nevada has always been one of the fastest growing states in the Union.

They?re the first generation to grow up hearing about the dangerous overuse of antibiotics.

They pressured their parents to take them to Taco Bell or Burger King to get free pogs.

Russian courts have always had juries.

No state has ever failed to observe Martin Luther King Day.

While they?ve been playing outside, their parents have always worried about nasty new bugs borne by birds and mosquitoes.

Public schools have always made space available for advertising.

Some of them have been inspired to actually cook by watching the Food Channel.

Fidel Castro?s daughter and granddaughter have always lived in the United States.

Their parents have always been able to create a will and other legal documents online.

Charter schools have always been an alternative.

They?ve grown up with George Stephanopoulos as the Dick Clark of political analysts.

New Kids have always been known as NKOTB.

They?ve always wanted to be like Shaq or Kobe: Michael Who?

They?ve often broken up with their significant others via texting, Facebook, or MySpace.

Their parents sort of remember Woolworths as this store that used to be downtown.

Kim Jong-il has always been bluffing, but the West has always had to take him seriously.

Frasier, Sam, Woody and Rebecca have never Cheerfully frequented a bar in Boston during primetime.

Major League Baseball has never had fewer than three divisions and never lacked a wild card entry in the playoffs.

Nurses have always been in short supply.

They won?t go near a retailer that lacks a website.

Altar girls have never been a big deal.

When they were 3, their parents may have battled other parents in toy stores to buy them a Tickle Me Elmo while they lasted.

It seems the United States has always been looking for an acceptable means of capital execution.

Folks in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City have always been able to energize with Pepsi Cola.

Andy Warhol is a museum in Pittsburgh.

They?ve grown up hearing about suspiciously vanishing frogs.

They?ve always had the privilege of talking with a chatterbot.

Refugees and prisoners have always been housed by the U.S. government at Guantanamo.

Women have always been Venusians; men, Martians.

McDonalds coffee has always been just a little too hot to handle.

?PC? has come to mean Personal Computer, not Political Correctness.

The New York Times and the Boston Globe have never been rival newspapers.
 
My first game was actually at Tiger stadium.. Only saw the one game there.

Mine too. It was Coach Harry Gilmer's last game and they lost. The crowd pelted him with snowballs mercilessly.

It was awesome.
 
Mine too. It was Coach Harry Gilmer's last game and they lost. The crowd pelted him with snowballs mercilessly.

It was awesome.

Little bit before my time (born '65) but that would have been funny. I do remember the time I went it was very cold.
 
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