Other than that…
Man, am I hungry today. It’s barely 11AM, and I feel Ethiopian. I don’t even have the strength to brush the horseflies from crawling up my face. That’s how hungry I am.
This after a gorge fest yesterday for the Lions game with my family. On the menu: calzone, chicken wings, peanut chicken on a stick, Nutter Butters, peanuts, pepperoni rolls, egg rolls, garlic bread, cold lasagna noodles*, and turtle ice cream pie.
*Cold lasagna noodles are so good that all three of us brothers could have just those for an entire meal. I made a pound of these, and they were gone by halftime.
Anyway, the food coma yesterday was preferable to actually watching the game that was on TV. It was a predictable Lions collapse. I could have told you that they’d lose by double digits and look bad in the process versus Green Bay the second they walked off the turf in Atlanta last week. Add to that a motivated Packer team whose offensive coordinator suffered a heart attack (or something), and they were due.
Big time.
I did put my money where my mouth was to some extent too, taking an additional seven points on the Packer’s line in a teaser with six other teams. I got +9.5 on Green Bay, and was happy to take it. Unfortunately, I missed that bet due to Bengal incompetence. They had the ball, down 17, marching into Cleveland territory with only a minute left to play. One meaningless TD would have won me $40.
Freaking Browns.
My other two bets were ruined as well. One was tanked when the Titans/Texans failed to break the over of 45.5, and the other when Miami didn’t beat Buffalo.
To this day, I’ve never won a sports bet online.
Back to my Lions though. Two major Internet columnists, Peter King and Len Pasquarelli, both took the Lions to task – one overtly, and one not as much.
Pasquarelli’s column really irked me, as he absolutely rubbed the Lions’ noses in a perceived mistake they made not keeping Ruben Droughns around. The same Ruben Droughns who wasn’t good enough to get carries behind James Stewart. God, that makes me mad. It’s one thing to maybe question the Lions’ ability to nurture the talent they’re drafting, which is a legitimate complaint. It’s completely another to take the Lions to task for not keeping this guy around, who was unable to ever crack a non-descript group of backs in front of him. Pasquarelli puts it, ever so gently, like this:
(Note to Lions, who ranked 32nd in rushing yards in 2002, and No. 28 in '03, and whose three tailbacks combined for all of 18 yards on 11 carries in Sunday's loss to Green Bay: You screwed up.) So, you think Droughns might look good in a Lions uniform right about now, bubby? You betcha.
Kiss my ass Len, really. This is one of those “out of nowhere” situations, not a personnel mistake. Dick.
King slighted the Lions this week in his top 15 list, placing Houston and San Diego above Detroit. Just to recap, Detroit beat Atlanta, who beat San Diego. Oh, and Detroit beat Houston too.
It
was a terrible performance, but this is a team above .500 right now. They won’t make the playoffs, but they’ve got a few more wins in them I think.