Words By Malik V.
As I walked out of Candlestick Park after the Niners’ come from behind victory over the ‘Skins, I took a moment to reflect on the few ups and many downs of the fifth straight losing season I made it through. “Things could be a lot worse”, I said to myself optimistically. And just to help me out, the Detroit Lions made that thought a tangible reality.
0-16. Just saying it makes me laugh, because it’s so damn unfathomable. But that’s what the Lions do. They make the impossible possible. Just not in a good way. A year after the Patriots videotaped their way to the first 16-0 regular season, the Lions became perfectly imperfect by not recording a single W the whole year. Wire to wire losers.
I’ve seen a couple teams go 1-15 before, and a part of me has always rooted against them, just so I could be a witness to a team going 0-16. It never quite went down like that though, because there would always be one game in which the team would catch a break and sneak in a victory. It always seemed like the law of averages or some other chance event would prevent a team from not winning a single game, but not even unbiased chance showed any pity for the Lions.
For whatever reason, I do feel a little bad for the Lions and their fans. The sadist in me wanted to see them go 0-16, but now that it’s happened, it doesn’t feel as cruelly sweet as I thought it would. That’s probably because Calvin Johnson and his teammates actually played hard and didn’t bitch or pass the blame to the league or the refs for their historic predicament. They put the blame on themselves, and tried their best to put a good, or even mediocre product on the field. Maybe they can take some sort of satisfaction in that, but I doubt it.
Since I’m not in the D, I don’t know what kind of response this is getting. I wouldn’t be surprised if Lions fans aren’t as pissed as outsiders might assume them to be. I’d bet that most Lions fans stopped giving a shit around week 5 or 6. I don’t have to be from Detroit to know that the sports scene isn’t really anything to boast about right now though. The Pistons are slipping and the Tigers were disappointing last year. If I was a resident of Detroit, these tough times would almost make me wanna hum that old familiar tune…
Loosies
Yung LA- All Of The Above
K-Os – Astronaut
K-Os – The Avenue
K-Os – Zambony
Keena Feat. The Cool Kids – Loose Wires (Remix)
Stat Quo – The Wind (Prod. By Focus)
Stat Quo – Deliver Me (Produced by Lyr1kz)
Young Buck – Swag On ‘Em
Young Buck Feat. Sosa Da Plug & Tha Outlawz – Fly
Murda Mook Feat. Jadakiss – Best Rapper Alive
Truck North – Norf@Work
Truck North – ‘09 Mentality
Truck North Feat. Wale – Flyer Than the Rest
Termanology Feat. Sheek Louch,Joell Ortiz,Bun-B,Saigon & Freeway – Say It
MC Lyte – Brooklyn
DJ Khaled Feat. Kanye West & Jay-Z – Go Hard (Remix)
J The S Feat. Emilio Rojas & Donny Goines – My Thing
Loosies
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