Detroit Lions!!

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(01-20-2025, 11:59 AM)Awful Llama Wrote: That may explain some of their popularity here.  When have they ever really caused this team any misery?  Kijana's injury, maybe?  And that was more a turf issue.  Apart from that, not much.  Personally, I've been a Detroit fan since the mid-80s, as I've stated numerous times here.  I went to many a Thanksgiving Day game at the Silverdome, and many Minnesota games with a buddy who's a Vikings fan.  My family contains both Browns and Bengals fans, but we put that aside and cheer together for the Lions. So, my support for them is genuine, just as it is for the Bengals.  

Hope that explains my motives, anyway.   If not, let me know, I'd rather light a candle than curse your darkness.

I get that, I've half cared about the Chicago Bears as an NFC team for decades too...my friend who is a Packers/Steelers fan had a better time of things for a while there for sure.

I'm not sure I'm cursing the darkness so much as finding it interesting the way people react to dynasties now.  Not too long ago the Chiefs were a franchise with 0 SB appearance since the 60s who hadn't done anything and were a change of pace from the Brady/Belichick dominance, and now they're enemy #1.  Could that happen if the Lions or Bills go on a run?  I assume so.  Picturing Dan Campbell acting like a horse's ass in the same insurance commercial that plays 20 times per game can and will send people over the edge.

I think dynasties are looked at differently in this age of oversaturation and 24/7 coverage and bombardment.  I say this as someone who was a kid in the 90s but was rooting for the Suns or the Jazz or ANYONE while it seemed like everyone else absolutely loved Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls winning 6 titles in 8 years.

So yea, it's odd that I went from being someone who was more likely to root against the team that wins too much to finding it amusing that it's mainstream to spent the past 25 years agonizing over the Patriots and Chiefs winning.  Keep in mind even as a kid I half jokingly rooted for the Coyote to catch the Roadrunner, for the guy with the Iraqi flag to beat Hulk Hogan and for the Bengals (I'm from outside of Pittsburgh) to beat the Steelers.


Hot take, the Commanders are about 2 more good seasons away from people accusing the NFL for being rigged for them so they can shove their "woke agenda" down our throats because they want them  to win now that they changed their name.