It's a wrap.
The Detroit Lions wrapped up still another sub-stellar year, losing 24-19. This year's final record: 6-10. We're making progress...
The Lions have been "my team" since 1957. That's right, they won the NFL championship that year! Of course they were worthy of becoming "my team".

The coach in '57 was George Wilson. He was followed by the following great football minds:
Harry Gilmer, Joe Schmidt, Don McCafferty, Rick Forzano, Tommy Hudspeth, Monte Clark, Daryl Rogers, Wayne Fontes, Bobby Ross, Gary Moeller, Marty Mornhinweg, and now Steve Mariucci. What's interesting here, is that when these coaches were fired or when they threw up their hands and quit, not one of them moved on to a headcoaching job in the NFL after that. The jury is still out on Mariucci.

I long for the days of Bobby Layne (see photo at top), Dick "Night Train" Lane, James David, Charlie Ane, Jim Gibbons, and Yale Lary.
These guys played smash face football without a helmet mask, in fact, Bobby Layne refused to wear a facemask even when the rest of the NFL was converting all equipment. What a stud!

We've come along way from Bobby Layne to Joey Harrington (see photo below). Each had a first name that ended in "y". That's as far as the similarities go...

Progress? I don't think so.