The 0-16 Lions have officially done it. This is 0for08, FanHouse's eye on the Detroit Lions and their quest for a winless season.
It had to end this way.
That is, to say, if this is actually the end.
The Lions are addicted to bad football. I've tried coming up with a justification for so many years of substandard play as well as faulty personnel moves on and off the field, and I've come to the conclusion that they're simply addicts. It doesn't make them bad people, it simply means that they've embraced what we deem destructive as suitable to their way of life. They are a gigantic failure of an organization comprised of hundreds of individual enablers.
This isn't to trivialize or poke fun at addictions of a much more serious nature -- addictions come in all shapes and sizes, from manageable to fatal, from heroin to Starbucks. This is a unique variety, and the Lions are deep in it. Those close to the team, as is always the case with addiction, have suffered the most, and they've tried all they could -- walkouts, websites, effigies -- to pull the Lions out of their hole. But the thing about addicts is that they have to recognize their problem, and that only usually comes when they've bottomed out, when they've fallen so far that they have to choose to embrace recovery.
As the first team to finish a season 0-16, it seems obvious that this Lions era has officially bottomed out. But do they think so?
The Lions Have Bottomed Out, Now an Intervention Is in Order originally appeared on NFL FanHouse on Mon, 29 Dec 2008 09:00:00 EST . Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
