New Orleans Saints’ Tom Dempsey the Unlikeliest of All Sports Heroes
Published on: 5th November, 2010
Did you hear the one about the guy with half a foot and no right hand who walked onto a football field? The Detroit Lions are used to being the NFL’s punch line. In recent years, a struggling comedian, if he feels the crowd getting ugly and turning on him, only has ...MSU’s Mark Dantonio Returning Greatness to Spartan Football
Published on: 20th October, 2010
It's amazing how often the saviors of college football programs arrive, and you didn't know it at the time. When the University of Michigan tabbed him in 1969, Glenn E. "Bo" Schembechler was the head coach at Miami of Ohio, a school so unheralded they need to remind you what state ...Mark Dantonio’s Heart Attack Unlikely to Change Coaches’ Lifestyles
Published on: 22nd September, 2010
What happened to MSU football coach Mark Dantonio was sobering, but about as surprising as tomorrow’s sunrise. What should be causing chin rubbing and head scratching is why this doesn’t happen more often. The heart attack that Dantonio suffered following Saturday’s thrilling victory over Notre ...NFL: Many Happy Returns, But Not for Detroit Lions in the 21st Century
Published on: 17th September, 2010
First, let me say that I know it’s not a job for the faint of heart, or for anyone who prefers his body with all his bones connected and his stuffing inside, where it belongs. You don’t have to tell me that returning kicks in the NFL is sport’s version ...Matthew Stafford: Detroit Lions’ Best Quarterback Since Bobby Layne
Published on: 11th September, 2010
The football helmet was suddenly an airborne missile. It was flung across the locker room, narrowly missing its target—the head of the defiant quarterback who just helped orchestrate a defeat of numbing magnitude. The helmet bounced off the wall, its hurler steaming mad, loaded for bear. The Lions of the 1960s were ...Tate Forcier’s Pity Party Should Make Him an Ex-Michigan Wolverine
Published on: 8th September, 2010
The beaten down quarterback sat all by his lonesome, a towel draped over his head, perhaps in shame. It was as if a force field was around him, because there wasn’t a teammate within 10 yards of him on either side. On the sidelines, ...Matthew Stafford + Detroit Lions = (FINALLY) No QB Controversy
Published on: 10th July, 2010
Take a good look at Matthew Stafford. Better yet, take a photo and store it in an airtight frame and lock it up in your safety deposit box. Take a good look, because not much longer will Stafford have the boyish good looks that he currently possesses. The young NFL quarterback comes ...Detroit Lions Run Scared When it Comes To Albert Haynesworth
Published on: 1st July, 2010
At the climax of the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, as the Soviet ships turned around and headed home, U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk uttered the famous words that summarized what just happened, when the world was led to the brink of nuclear war but averted it at the ...2010 NFL Draft: Detroit Lions GM Martin Mayhew Strikes Again
Published on: 23rd April, 2010
NFL general managers, beware: you can’t stop Martin Mayhew, you can only hope to contain him. Mayhew, the Lions’ football brainiac, reminds me of those chess experts who can play multiple opponents at once, because he’s staying one move ahead of his brethren. His latest heist was the trade ...Merlin Olsen: The Schizophrenic Football Player
Published on: 13th March, 2010
Merlin Olsen always fascinated me. I considered him borderline schizophrenic. On the football field, Olsen was part of the Los Angeles Rams’ Fearsome Foursome defensive line that swallowed ball carriers whole. He, Lamar Lundy, Deacon Jones, and Rosey Grier gave no quarter on Sunday afternoons. You’d be better off running through ...Featured Sponsors
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