Keeping things in perspective:
The Lions have been terrible for a long, long time. Perhaps that’s why I’ve been almost hoping to see the 0-16 record ever since our first huge blowout loss (for the record, that was Week 1 to the Falcons, when I lost twenty real dollars to the sports book at the Las Vegas Venetian). Ordinarily, fans don’t want to see their teams lose. But being a Lions fan is different. We’ve been so bad for so long, I feel like I’ve developed some odd coping strategies. Rooting for disaster, so that we’re not just bad but epically abysmal, seems kind of logical to me.
So right now, at this moment, when my team has reached a historic low that matches the worst performance for any team in any sport, I feel vindicated. Lions fans have for years talked about the inexcusable mistakes made by the front office. Things got so bad that a social movement sprung up years ago to fire Lions General Manager Matt Millen. The calls of outraged fans were finally heeded this year, but it was obviously too late.