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They are gonna ride the monochrome until they lose another game in them, I suspect.
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I like the all Whites.
They’ve become synonymous with two brutal beatings we’ve dispensed to the Pack at Lambeau. Rodgers blinking on the sideline realising he may never throw a ball there again and last year’s blowout.
Has a bit of fear factor.Comment
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Campbell is on record saying he looks forward to this crappy weather game when the Lions are gonna show mud and grass stains on the all White’sComment
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A little throwback to get you in the mood….
”PackerNation January 9, 2022, 10:09 PM
I know you are young and naive so I excuse your ignorance. I would advise that you are not safe hiding behind a screen. I can obtain your IP addy with one click.
Some Packers fans less stable than I would find you, slit your throat, watch you bleed out, then just walk away laughing. Tread carefully child.
I am married with children in their late teens. I was born in Wisconsin and have been a Packers fan for my whole life(Close to 50 years) I played football at Wisconsin and was drafted in the mid-90's to the NFL. Played 4 years in Miami and one in Green Bay.
You are good for a laugh.
Good luck in life. Be smart and stay safe.”
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"I hope to see the Lions in the Super Bowl before I die"
My friend Ken LComment
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Detroit Lions getting used to national spotlight. Their fans should, too.
Paywall Freep article.
Shawn Windsor
Detroit Free Press
Jameson Williams won’t play this weekend in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Maybe you’ve heard. His Detroit Lions teammates will, though. Maybe you’ve heard that, as well.
For Dan Campbell, days like Sunday are sent from the heavens, which makes sense, since the home of the Green Bay Packers was apparently sent from above, too.
“It’s one of those things that God created,” the Lions head coach said of Lambeau Field. “It’s where football began a little bit, those types of things.”
No other NFL stadium sprouts out of a neighborhood, with actual homes and trees. And the relatively bucolic setting is part of the dream. History is too; so many think of the Packers in sepia tones.
That the games are outside — in the cold ... the rain ... the snow — adds to the mystique, especially in this era where domes abound.
The Lions will play 14 of their 17 games this season under one. Now, nine of them take place in Ford Field, so maybe we shouldn't count those.
Still, there is a reason the Lions practiced outside Friday in Allen Park, when the clouds spit a little rain, and a semi-bracing wind whipped in from the west. Forecasters predict a wet day with mid-50s temperatures Sunday in Green Bay, and it’ll be cooler when the sun drops off the horizon during winning time.
That's assuming the Lions are in the game when it’s winning time — an assumption I have no problem making, and I’m guessing most of you don’t either.
That we are here, approaching the (next) biggest game of the season and it is November, is still kind of surreal, no?
This is the game of the week. The late afternoon slot. Tom Brady will be on the mic. What he has to say is another story. His presence is what matters, signifying how the network — and the league, to a degree — thinks of the Lions.
Brady has already called a Lions game and was effusive about the football he witnessed. He’s not the only national observer to sound giddy talking about this team. Frankly, it’s a tad jarring, mostly because it’s still new, this place on the national relevance stage.
Almost two years ago to the day, the Lions played the Packers at Ford Field. It was the early game on a Sunday. National folks might have been interested in then-Packers QB Aaron Rodgers, but that was about it.
The Lions were 1-6. Sheila Hamp had met with reporters the week before, when a loss at Dallas pushed them to 1-5. She wanted to tell the media, and by extension the fans, that she believed in Campbell and general manager Brad Holmes.
Her doubling down was met with skepticism, and rightly so. The decades of frustration and ineptitude before she took over may not have been her fault, but these were the Lions, and almost no one was conditioned to believe in anything other than eternal futility.
Still, she stood resolute, and she believed, and though she may not have envisioned a run to the NFC title game 13 months later or entering this season as a hipster pick for the Super Bowl, she knew something better was coming.
Well, it’s here, and two weeks after the Lions traveled to Minnesota to take on the Vikings in that weekend’s game of the week, they are about to do it again.
“This is the good stuff,” Campbell said Friday. “Like I say, we’ve got two really good teams fighting for the division and it’s on the road and it just — everything about it is the ultimate competition, and the only thing better is when you start hitting the playoffs. But these types of games are what it’s about. So, I think our guys really enjoy it, look forward to it, I know the staff does too.”
The Packers’ run atop this division for so much of the last 30 years is part of what makes Sunday the good stuff. The Lions didn’t win at Lambeau for a generation; even when they had decent teams, somebody playing quarterback for Green Bay always seemed to make a play at the end.
Yet for the second year in a row, they arrive at Lambeau on equal footing, at the very least. Actually, they did two seasons ago, too, but no one knew it yet.
That win to cap the 2022 campaign propelled this run as much as the win over the Packers earlier that season, in October, when they beat Green Bay to get to 2-7.
Funny how long ago that is starting to feel. And maybe in NFL years, which are more akin to dog years, it is. Life changes fast in this sport. Look at the Washington Commanders. And the Dallas Cowboys.
No wonder it seems like the Lions stepped onto the national stage a while ago. But it was really just a little over a year ago, when they visited the Kansas City Chiefs to open the season.
So, yes, Campbell and his team are used to the hype of a big regular season game at this point, even if this area is still doing a collective double take that this is our new football reality. Sunday is a big game. First place is at stake.
But next week will be a big game, too. And so will so many others.
They’ll keep coming, and that’s the point, the “good stuff,” as Campbell said. It's also the stuff that is necessary for deep runs in the playoffs.
“You hope for this,” said Campbell.
The prime slot. The setting. The weather. The pressure. The eyes of the football world. The history.
Not just Green Bay’s, but the history the Lions are trying to make. That it happens to be in the division, with the division standing on the line only adds to it.
“We’re looking forward to this,” said Campbell. “We’ll be in the elements, which is great. I think we’ll be all-white, so we’ll have the grass stains and everything rolling, man. It’s going to be good old football, the way it’s meant to be played.”
Physical. Metaphysical. And relevant.
The Lions are here, and belong here, and are no longer an afterthought on a field the heavens created.
Contact Shawn Windsor: swindsor@freepress.com. Follow him@shawnwindsor.
"I hope to see the Lions in the Super Bowl before I die"
My friend Ken LComment
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^Good article.GO LIONS "24" !!Comment
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"Your division isn't going through Green Bay it's going through Detroit for the next five years" - Rex RyanComment
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Originally posted by edindetroit View Post
When he called the refs to take Branch out, nearly choked on my coffee.
"...when Hibernian won the Scottish Cup final and that celebration, Sunshine on Leith? I don’t think there’s a better football celebration ever in the game.”
Sir Alex FergusonComment
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I don't find this guy very funny, but,
I had to laugh when he went through the bit where he tried to come up with scenarios where the packers could get back into the game.
The old, "well, if we stop them here and get a score then a three and out and a good drive and we are back in it..."
I think I spent most of my life as a Lions fan doing that during games. " Ok, we're only down two scores, if we get a stop here and can put a drive together and get some point etc etc..."
I feel like I am watching the destruction of our democracy while my neighbors and friends cheer it onComment
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This guy is borderline creepy and not funny.Comment
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Feel free to not watch it then.Originally posted by foxhopper View Post"Your division isn't going through Green Bay it's going through Detroit for the next five years" - Rex RyanComment
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"Your division isn't going through Green Bay it's going through Detroit for the next five years" - Rex RyanComment
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Sorry, I didn't mean to hurt your feelings. I was just giving my opinion. I forgot that is frowned on here.Originally posted by edindetroit View PostComment
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