I cant beleive I cant wait to see this weekends ga

[Mitchrapp]

Mitch[/color]]And back in the 70's, 35 games back, game 162 I was still listening to Ernie and the Tigers.

hmmm, sounds like the 75/76 season.. I remember Ron LeFlore getting on base, stealing 2nd and having Rusty Staub knock him in...Thats all the team had

Basically the whole decade. Obvious they weren't 35 back every season. But baseball in the summer is just awesome.

 

[tsmith7559]

Mitch[/color]]

hmmm, sounds like the 75/76 season.. I remember Ron LeFlore getting on base, stealing 2nd and having Rusty Staub knock him in...Thats all the team had

Basically the whole decade. Obvious they weren't 35 back every season. But baseball in the summer is just awesome.

not from 70-74...they had a good team. 1972 won the East Conference and lost to the A's in 6 games.
but after 74, almost all the 68' tigers were gone and even Willie Horton was traded. 1978 was the birth of the 84' tigers withe Tram, Whitaker, Parrish, Morris,etc

 

[doinwork83]

Judy is my cousin

Are you serious? Im sorry to hear that lol. Every other Zehnder ive met would give you the leiderhosens right off their ass if you needed them.

p.s. i swear everyone from Frankenmuth has some form of Zehnder blood in them lol

 

[tsmith7559]

nah...just BS'n ya

 

[bavarianinnman]

lol yah everyone in frakenmuth is related

 

[doinwork83]

nah...just BS'n ya

dirty

 

[MalFunkShun]

Judy is a bitch, no doubt... when I would manage weddings at the Lodge she would jump in and give a speech like she was giving a blessing.

The rest of the family is very very nice though.

Wow we got OT...

 

[turok]

Watched, listened to or attended Lions games since the '70 season, which was in a large way, a forbearance of many, if not most of the Lions' seasons to come. The season of Dempsey's record-setting 63 yard game-winning FG, hitting the crossbar and bouncing over as time expired. Still can remember watching the game on TV, and the TV camera shaking, as the Saints' fans went wild in jubilation. Then later the Lions losing vs the eventual first "NFC" champion Dallas Cowboys in the postseason, 5-0, when Greg Landry got sick and puked during the game b/c of stress, and Bill Munson taking over for the Lions' final and ultimately futile final drive,completing pass after pass, but ultimately falling just short of the redzone as time expired.

The next season brought the depressing early-season game @ Tiger Stadium vs the Bears, when Chuck Hughes became the first ever NFL player to die on a gridiron during a game. Then a few years later, the infamous non-trade of Lions' WR Ron Jessie to the then LA Rams for their RB Cullen Bryant, who flatly refused to report to play for the team, and successfully challenged the trade, so the Rams wound up retaining Bryant AND Jessie, which, IMO, was the first quite blatant example, of the Lions being the "Rodney Dangerfields" of the NFL, not getting nor very often deserving/earning any respect in the NFL.

The only season that I didn't watch or listen to the Lions games at all, not even one single down, was in '07.

However, I watched or listened to every single Lions loss in '08, b/c although going 0-16 quite obviously isn't anything to brag about, it was a chance to perhaps see a piece of infamous NFL history take place, and I wanted to see if the "football gods" were going to "gift" us long-suffering Lions' fans with the ULTIMATE humiliation.

I still firmly believe that having a domed stadium is mostly a negative, not a positive for NFL teams who have them. I also believe that the Lions' teams season to season, would have been more successful overall, especially on the road over the years, had they built a home facility whose field was exposed to the elements, instead of the Silverdome, and later, Ford Field. Perhaps having a retractable dome would have been a good compromise, although more expensive to build and maintain.