[Jack Jones]

I am from Michigan, home of the Lions. For anyone who doesn't know about it the Lions stink. I don't mean rotten eggs I mean like students on a 14 hr bus ride to Atlanta with broken AC stench. You don't hear them complaining about how some team (I don't know football) wins all the time. In fact, you hear them have the attitude of, "We are going to keep trying." You know, I bet they know they can't win the Superbowl right now but I bet that doesn't affect how they play or train. I bet they watch what other teams do and try to emulate it. I bet they don't sit around on the football forums griping about how the Packers (know nothing about football!) only win because have more money or because they have more people. Why the heck do I see that in FIRST?

I don’t think the Lions situation is at all similar to that of an aspiring FIRST team. Their regular season does not entail being paired at random with two other football teams. Their playoffs do not consist of three wild card teams going up against two conference winners and a lesser team of their choice. They never see the Viking fans wearing cheese hats way early in the season to drive home the foregone conclusion that together the Vikings and Packers will dominate the NFC North.