Houston and Lions working on a 3yr deal

[boogerlovejoy]

hey booger, gtfoutta here with this BS already. stop acting like you are some ultra-over-the-top Lions fan who supports the Lions better than everyone else. i've often been the biggest kool-aid drinker on this board and before when it was the espn board, you have absolutely nothing on me.

using a player drafted in R1 so far outside his position deserves to be ridiculed for years. you don't like it, then feel free to stop coming to the sight. this is something that will follow the team for years, on par with Millen's ineptitude. if you don't see that, that is your problem, not ours.

uh oh......seems I struck a nerve.

Never acted like I am a "better fan" than anyone. Stop being so sensative, Sally.

You come on the sight bitching about the same things again and again and again and again but get your panties in a bunch when I make a couple posts about they way people act.

LOL. Pretty thin skinned for a guy who talks so much.

 

[Mitchrapp]

The team picks us? I follow the Lions because they are closest in proximity to where I live. I don't get upset when they lose. Nothing they do on a weekend impacts my life at all. I just follow the team. Maybe some "fans" are too invested in their teams.

That's you. Many of us our fans of team not in our home cities, for whatever reason. Or where you went to your first game with your Dad. The Lions chose me..

 

[boogerlovejoy]

The team picks us? I follow the Lions because they are closest in proximity to where I live. I don't get upset when they lose. Nothing they do on a weekend impacts my life at all. I just follow the team. Maybe some "fans" are too invested in their teams.

Clearly it DOES impact you in some way.

If it didn't, why come here and bitch about them?

 

[boogerlovejoy]

That's you. Many of us our fans of team not in our home cities, for whatever reason. Or where you went to your first game with your Dad. The Lions chose me..

Yep, my dad is a Lions fan. Took me to a game once in the early 90's. I remember it was when the Reebok "pumps" first came out and kids in Detroit were getting shot over them. My dad grabbed me and my buddy by the arm when we walked in and told me if anyone wants our shoes....to give them up and run like hell.

Ahhh.....the memories.

 

[tomdalton22]

Clearly it DOES impact you in some way.

If it didn't, why come here and bitch about them?

That is a good point. I guess what I meant to say is I have become apathetic about what happens on game day. If they lose a game it doesn't really change my day at all...I just don't let the losing bother me. I basically come on this board to talk shit with everybody. I find this more entertaining than the Lions!

 

[Mitchrapp]

Yep, my dad is a Lions fan. Took me to a game once in the early 90's. I remember it was when the Reebok "pumps" first came out and kids in Detroit were getting shot over them. My dad grabbed me and my buddy by the arm when we walked in and told me if anyone wants our shoes....to give them up and run like hell.

Ahhh.....the memories.

I remember my first game, My Dad, me, My best friend and his Dad. Between every timeout we'd take our little football, which we got when we came, and started running routes. Bunch of fun, and running into other fans, lol. They didn't seem to mind so much.

Edit: '73.

 

[motown1958]

My first game was at the silver dome. THE '97 wild card game against the Packers. You know the one where Favre hurls a nonsense pass to the back of the endzone with almost no time left and we lose. But Barry was magic that game. Also the wait for the buses to go to the stadium is to this day the coldest I have ever been even with thousands of drunk people surrounding you.

 

[Mitchrapp]

My first game was at the silver dome. THE '97 wild card game against the Packers. You know the one where Favre hurls a nonsense pass to the back of the endzone with almost no time left and we lose. But Barry was magic that game. Also the wait for the buses to go to the stadium is to this day the coldest I have ever been even with thousands of drunk people surrounding you.

Favre did that a lot. Luck or talent?

 

[motown1958]

The next game I went to was in DC against the redskins. We lost by over thirty points then my dad and I had to fight our way out of the stadium. good times. Skins fans are dicks.

 

[boogerlovejoy]

That is a good point. I guess what I meant to say is I have become apathetic about what happens on game day. If they lose a game it doesn't really change my day at all...I just don't let the losing bother me. I basically come on this board to talk shit with everybody. I find this more entertaining than the Lions!

I get it. I clearly like coming here to talk about the Lions too.

I guess I just don't get the constant bitching and whining by the same people about the same things over and over and over again. Then they say they are fans?? WTF??

It's like saying "I love my wife" and then bitch about EVERY mistake she makes over and over and over again to anyone that will listen. Makes no sense.

 

[motown1958]

Favre did that a lot. Luck or talent?

Both. But that ball should have never been caught. It really was an amazing catch and its funny because they pressured favre and he kind of did that whole evade and blind fire thing but the whole stadium new it was over as soon as he launched it. I've never heard a place go from so loud to so quite so fast.

 

[jde7676]

That's you. Many of us our fans of team not in our home cities, for whatever reason. Or where you went to your first game with your Dad. The Lions chose me..

I'm an Army brat and so were my parents so I've never had a home town to speak of. My family consists of all dolphin fans. I went to family renunion in Pontiac as a kid and went to have lunch at the Silver Dome where I met Herman Moore and from then on I was a Lions fan.

 

[Mitchrapp]

Both. But that ball should have never been caught. It really was an amazing catch and its funny because they pressured favre and he kind of did that whole evade and blind fire thing but the whole stadium new it was over as soon as he launched it. I've never heard a place go from so loud to so quite so fast.

I remember back in the day, Detroit about to make the playoffs - just needed Minny to lose. They were losing in the last seconds a long way from the end zone (I forget who they were playing) and the Minny QB threw a duck and Admad Rashad one handed it as he was running backwards and got the TD. last play of the game, pissed me off.

 

[evolutionkb]

5 years 25 million per twitter.

 

[Mitchrapp]

I'm an Army brat and so were my parents so I've never had a home town to speak of. My family consists of all dolphin fans. I went to family renunion in Pontiac as a kid and went to have lunch at the Silver Dome where I met Herman Moore and from then on I was a Lions fan.

There ya go, tons of fans like this. Man, Herman Moore had great hands.

 

[boogerlovejoy]

There ya go, tons of fans like this. Man, Herman Moore had great hands.

Is it just me or does he not get the love from Lions fans, and national fans, that he deserved?

The Lions will let ANYONE grab #84.

 

[Mitchrapp]

Is it just me or does he not get the love from Lions fans, and national fans, that he deserved?

The Lions will let ANYONE grab #84.

Probably right but for me and many he was one of the best. Can you imagine if he had some decent QB's?

 

[boogerlovejoy]

Probably right but for me and many he was one of the best. Can you imagine if he had some decent QB's?

What? You no likee Scott Mitchell??

Yeah, that whole offensive game plan in the early/mid 90's was questionable. Never understood why the screen pass wasn't a MASSIVE part of our offense. No FB. Mitchell/Peete/Ware were awful.....though to this day I don't think Ware was given a fair shot at maturing as a QB. He got 3 starts as a Lion....one of them good against the Bears.....and thats it.

That being said......'95 was awesome. That offense did what they wanted when they wanted. Mitchell folded in the playoffs, of course, and the rest is history.

 

[Mitchrapp]

1 year wonder on Mitchell.

 

[boogerlovejoy]

1 year wonder on Mitchell.

Dude is the definition of a one year wonder.

It was a pretty damn good year though.

Still 2nd best in Lions history, IMO (2011 Stafford #1 of course)