Ive been arou d so long that i figured i didnt need to answer thiz thread, but fuck it...its been a minute and im enjoying a cigar and glass of rye after a long day with nothing better to do....
Im not going down your list, just free ballin here...
Grew up in norcal in niner country, still hate them to this day...was orginally a raiders fan because of howie long and marcus allen...but then raiders became synonymous with gangs, so in my jr high mind i needed a team i could be proud of...so...lions...yeah, dumb choice, but 30 yrs later its too late for me now..
I think herman moore (with brett perriman) is my favorite player, but bennie blades and s rogers are high on my list...and jerry ball....oh, and joey harrington...kidding, but some on this board probably ztill think i loved him because i believed he had the talent, juzt came into a shit situation, i think the same about david carr, for what its worth...anyway...
I was a geologist that had all the time in the world to pozt since i worked on a computer all day, but i was let go because my bosses hated me standing up for what was right and i now own a from scratch deli in oklahoma city...check it out www.scottiesdeliokc.com
What else did you ask? Oh, favorite memory...eazy....tailgating with all the redzone fuckers....tech thinking everyone wanted to beat him up, golden, still my boy to this day, weve gone on other road trips together, i forget brianz screen name, but that dude passed out with mustard all over him, dave, one of the creators of redzone with tech being awesome, along with vinny and his son vieltech, oz from oklahoma (i should look him up, i still have some books he sent me)....thought id add roadtrippin it to jax for a game...bc lion serving his country well...i now im forgetting folks, but such good times...i remember leaving the tailgate and meeting some girls thqt fed me jello shot after jello shot cauzing me to miss my flight by 3 mins...then the ensuing incident with tsa where i was almost arrested for telling the dude he was a pos for trying to act like he was a badass...oh hell yeah...good times
I was a geologist that had all the time in the world to pozt since i worked on a computer all day, but i was let go because my bosses hated me standing up for what was right and i now own a from scratch deli in oklahoma city...check it out www.scottiesdeliokc.com
What else did you ask? Oh, favorite memory...eazy....tailgating with all the redzone fuckers....tech thinking everyone wanted to beat him up, golden, still my boy to this day, weve gone on other road trips together, i forget brianz screen name, but that dude passed out with mustard all over him, dave, one of the creators of redzone with tech being awesome, along with vinny and his son vieltech, oz from oklahoma (i should look him up, i still have some books he sent me)....thought id add roadtrippin it to jax for a game...bc lion serving his country well...i now im forgetting folks, but such good times...i remember leaving the tailgate and meeting some girls thqt fed me jello shot after jello shot cauzing me to miss my flight by 3 mins...then the ensuing incident with tsa where i was almost arrested for telling the dude he was a pos for trying to act like he was a badass...oh hell yeah...good times
As I sit here in the twilight of yet another Central Michigan day, the skies seem to be clearing and the sun is fading though its presence has been a most welcomed change from the catastrophically stupid Michigan winters we have here. I like a beverage and growing up around Detroit, at least with my friends, if you didn't drink then you were considered a "pu**y." Looking back on all this now at the ripe old middle age of...40... it seems so adolescent and juvenile which it is, but I took this philosophy to heart. I was the guy who would slam everything and anything, a man made of an iron gut and in my junior year of high school I began to put pints of bacardi 151 into beer bongs and down them in roughly 3 to 4 seconds flat, which left a goose bumpy burn. The key is to not think about it.
This became sort of an attraction at parties and I would always be coaxed into slamming this Devil's nectar to the delight of my idiot party going friends. There was always a beer bong around and many of friends made the best ones possible and it had to be grade A or I wouldn't do it. Ace Hardware grade tubing and screw in pipe clamps, for the record. I grew up with people like Uncle Kracker, Kid Rock and people who partied way harder than anyone I have ever seen since, if you can imagine that. I am a Wigger from way back, but you wouldn't know it now.
I grew up on Billy Sims and went to many a Pontiac Silverdome game, terrified as a kid, because all the a-holes that drank around us fought constantly. It was a battlefield not only on the field, but in the stands.
At any rate, I don't have 4 kids like some on here, because that just seems crazy to me. I have 1 son from a one night stand 3 years ago. True Story. I am not the poster child of morality, though my heart is pure and if anything there is a lot you can learn from me in a cautionary kind of way.
I grew up around Detroit, in a town called Mt. Clemens. I went to college in California and lived out there for 11 years.
I am the best at spotting talent and am always right about draft picks. One day I hope to see the Lions play in a Super Bowl, but I'm not holding out on it.
When the old board (circa 2004-ish) I think it was on the Detroit Lions website, if that's true. If it is that is crazy lol, but I'd like to do some shots of Scoresby, bottom shelf Scotch and tear into some idiots on here like Dr. Z, goldenlions, felix, brian, Snowdog, Judge Smails, Phalanx, wombat, LVLIONS, Sanders97, Vic Turner, LN, blog, signapore, BClions, rockbottom, dane, rusty, eric hipple, and many others. It got to be quite fun and in the summer of my youth, it was entertaining to jump on the lions message board around 3 after some partying and rip into some people. Often I would write long, wordy diatribes about this team, scrolls that no one gave two f*cks about, but I write them anyways, often having to apologize the next day. Much like my life.
I have written four novels and one true story which is being shopped around by my agent Natalie. Again, true story.
I was born and raised in Oklahoma. I spent my formative drinking years in Lake Ozark, MO. I moved back to Oklahoma when my son was born. I am a die hard Sooner fan. You Vikes are welcome for AP. I work in aerospace and I am an elected official of my local labor union. I am pro-union, and you can simply go fuck yourself if you are not. I don't care to hear your bullshit side of the story as to why. In Oklahoma, we grew up on high school and college football. My family only watched the NFL on turkey day. Growing up in this area, I have hated the Cowgirls and everything they stand for, but mostly their jackass fans. Since the choices were between Dallas and Detroit from that standpoint, I watched Billy Sims run the ball and started to root for the Lions. When they drafted Barry Sanders (greatest RB in NFL history), I was hooked. My favorite all-time player on the field is obviously Barry, but my favorite all-time Lion on and off the field is Chris Spielman. Just the mixture of broken facemasks and the truly genuine human being behind them make him hard to surpass. Stafford is my favorite current player. He won me over in the dislocated shoulder Cleveland game. This hurts Tech's heart, but even he knows that Matthew FUCKING Stafford is the greatest NFL QB to ever wear a Lions' jersey. It hurts my heart to know that ain't sayin' much.
Tech is legitimately full of shit 98% of the time, but he ain't all bad. Blog doesn't exist in my world. Felix, I gotta get to OKC sometime and check out your place. Honolulu, if you haven't chased storms in Oklahoma you haven't chased storms. I hope you get the opportunity.
bogartin or bogs, either works... got it from the origin "bowl guard"
I asked God for a bike, but God doesn't work that way. So I stole a bike, and asked God for forgiveness.
bogartin, golden, felix, vic, Sanders, Hunter MSU, Lion Nation,tech, all these guys and then some - there is no possible way to name them all, a virtual honolulu blue army that has been hanging around Lions MB's when MB's were relevant. These fucking guys have been spit balling all things Lions five coaches ago and before the hellish nightmare known as the Joey Harrington catastrophe. These guys have been on Lions MB's just after they'd grown pubes and starting dating actual women instead of dating Rosey Palms and Miss Michigan. These guys are the salt of the Earth re: all things Lions and probably know more about this franchise than the GM or owner combined. I'm not saying these guys are experts in all things Lions, because expert wouldn't be correct in its vocabulary. These mofos are more like ninja level like in their mastery, jedi like and all these guys can pinpoint problems each year like a finely tuned light saber yielded by Darth Vader after taking too many No-doz and drinking booze.
I'm saying these are loyal smart mofos and if the Lions FO had any clue, they'd call them to ask advice.
ALL THAT SAID - if this is a Minnesota board, I wish you luck. BUT consider yourself fucking lucky this isn't all Packers all the time or an MB dealing with mass amounts of Bears fans, because personally speaking, it will get ugly and you may just want to ban me now, rather than read the Linda blair like spewing that lies in front of you all. Good luck in 2019, because you are all going to need it. And I will take this as a warning myself, so spare yourself the message, because when the season starts, you better pack a lunch...
ALL THAT SAID - if this is a Minnesota board, I wish you luck. BUT consider yourself fucking lucky this isn't all Packers all the time or an MB dealing with mass amounts of Bears fans, because personally speaking, it will get ugly and you may just want to ban me now, rather than read the Linda blair like spewing that lies in front of you all. Good luck in 2019, because you are all going to need it. And I will take this as a warning myself, so spare yourself the message, because when the season starts, you better pack a lunch...
All of us have our own boards (links in the sidebar). Some members will bounce around; some won't ... but we all have our own team boards. No worries!
One of the originals from the redzone, say what you will about Tech but he has always been true to the redzone founding principles of free discussion and almost zero moderation.
A fan of the Schwartz years of elite defensive lines I'd rather watch a defensive slugging match than a shootout any day.
def is like a brother someday we will sit and drink old crow during a Lions playoff victory.
I thought I would use my first post to introduce myself. My name is Mark and I live in Scotland. I hail from Edinburgh originally but now live in one of the remotest parts of Scotland. Which is kinda what brought me here. Where I live it is very rare to find someone who is a fan of the NFL so I hardly ever get the opportunity to talk with anyone about a sport I have come to really love. I thought signing up here might help to scratch that itch.
I have been following the NFL off and on for over thirty years now. All my life football(soccer to you guys Stateside) has been my passion but it has now been supplanted by the NFL. My happiest time is 6pm on a Sunday evening when I can sit down with a large pizza and a drink and take a deep dive into SEVEN HOURS OF COMMERCIAL FREE FOOTBALL on Redzone. Love it. I am also a keen Fantasy Football player and have won a few leagues in my time playing. It's actually kind of surreal thinking about the coverage the NFL gets in the UK now compared to when I first started watching over three decades ago. Back then we got a one hour highlights show each week. The show was a week behind so you would be watching highlights of Week 6 games when Week 7 was already in the books. The only live game we got was the Superbowl which I wasn't allowed to stay up and watch because I was too young at the time. After a few years I discovered that if I switched on my AM radio on a Sunday evening I could pick up the very faintest hint of American Armed Forces Radio and that there were live NFL games being broadcast on there. It was like finding money being able to listen to games in real time. The signal would drop out constantly but sitting there with your ear pressed up against your ghettoblaster trying to hear the next play was totally worth it. After a few years the TV coverage increased and we would get Monday Night Football live each week with a little bit of coverage of the play-offs too, and the Superbowl obviously. Nowadays we get Thursday Night Football live, three live games on a Sunday evening, Redzone, Monday Night Football live, all the play-off games live and the Superbowl live. So it is pretty wild how much the sport has grown over here. My dream is to make it over to the States one day and take in a game or two over there, I think it would be awesome. Detroit obviously would be my first choice to go to.
I have observed many changes in my time watching the NFL. TV coverage changes, rule changes, uniform changes, commentator changes. But there has been one constant by which I can set my watch. And that is the Lions not being very good lol. It's painful sometimes it really is. But hey, even if they aren't a great team, or even a half decent team, you still gotta love 'em. Even if the team as a whole isn't always very good they have had some electrifying players to watch down the years. Barry Sanders and Calvin Johnson being the most obvious standouts. As you can probably guess by my username, Calvin Johnson was my favourite. What a receiver. I would say the third best ever but even if I am being a bit biased he was definitely right up there with the best to ever play the position. My favourite current player is Matthew Stafford.
Anyway, that's about all I have to say for now so I will leave it there. Go Lions!
Last Edit: Dec 20, 2019 17:18:03 GMT -6 by Megatron
Post by goldenlions on Dec 26, 2019 9:47:19 GMT -6
Welcome Megatron/Mark. Sorry my response has been delayed, with all holiday stuff I haven't visited the board much. Since the team is having a bad year, it makes it easier to skip a day or two on here. I love that you are a fan from abroad. Always love a different perspective from someone outside of the US. Welcome to this message board! We are all passionate fans who post here, even if very cynical most of the time. Hope you continue to post on the board. Might be light on content with the team having a bad year, but will definitely pick up as the draft gets closer.
Take everything with a grain of salt here, we are a surly bunch and are glad to have you here.
My name is Joe. My screenname is sort of a joke because in Linux classes at Grand Rapids Community College I had to sign up for 3rd party software that assigned usernames. It sorta combined my first and last name in a funny way that I've been using ever since.
I'm from Grand Rapids, Michigan. My Sanders jersey from the early or mid-90s. So I guess I've been a fan for 20-25+ years. Some of my favorite players include Chris Spielman, Berry Sanders, Shaun Rodgers, and so on.
Far as hobbies go, recently got back into skateboarding which has been a blast. I really wanna get back into snowboarding now too. Good stuff. Otherwise I'm a pretty simple dude I guess.
I guess lastly, I've been a lurker for over a decade. There's a lot of funny stuff posted here even though the community is small. I'll try to contribute, but I mostly figured I'd just create an account with how often I come here.
My name is Joe. My screenname is sort of a joke because in Linux classes at Grand Rapids Community College I had to sign up for 3rd party software that assigned usernames. It sorta combined my first and last name in a funny way that I've been using ever since.
I'm from Grand Rapids, Michigan. My Sanders jersey from the early or mid-90s. So I guess I've been a fan for 20-25+ years. Some of my favorite players include Chris Spielman, Berry Sanders, Shaun Rodgers, and so on.
Far as hobbies go, recently got back into skateboarding which has been a blast. I really wanna get back into snowboarding now too. Good stuff. Otherwise I'm a pretty simple dude I guess.
I guess lastly, I've been a lurker for over a decade. There's a lot of funny stuff posted here even though the community is small. I'll try to contribute, but I mostly figured I'd just create an account with how often I come here.
Welcome! Grand Rapids, the home of Justin Amash! Since the quarantine started, two of my sons have improved there skateboarding and guitar skills. I think Chris Spielman was the greatest Lion of all time because he elevated the players on his team with his work ethic and leadership.
UK Lion here. I'm from, and live, in Sheffield in the UK. Been an NFL fan since the 80's, when I'm afraid to say I was a Bears fan (my Dad visited Chicago on business and brought back a Bears T-shirt when I was about 5).
Became a proper fan in the late 90's when I started playing for my university team (university football in the UK is very different to the US, so don't get the wrong idea - if we got enough people coming to watch to form a chain crew, we were pleased). This coincided with my parents moving to the US, and living in Detroit, so I made the mistake character building decision of becoming a Lions fan.
First game live was the last one at the Silverdome - watched Chicago stop us making the playoffs with the last kick of the game, which ushered in the Matt Millen era. Other live game highlights include one (I can't remember which) where the crowd boo'd the Lions onto Ford Field before the start of the game! Brutal.
Enjoyed the Jim Schwartz era, and especially that Monday night game where the crowd noise caused something like 5 false start penalties on the (?)Bears. Was great to see some pride return to the arena, and have FF become a tough place to play. Watching a playoff game was super.
Found the Caldwell years a mixed bag. We weren't exciting, but at least you felt like there was a chance we could win every game.
Think Quinn was the wrong choice, and Patricia even worse. Give me those 50/50 Caldwell years, and a loss in the WC round, back compared to ... this ...
Going to be a long season this year, I think, and then one or two more of rebuild. But what better people to spend it with moaning about how bad this team is than you lot?
This seemed like a good place to make my first post here, and I have enjoyed reading some of the intros of others. I was on the original site when it started and am familiar with a number of people here, and I check in on them every few years to make sure nobody died. I have delayed in starting an account here until now, but I thought how nice it would be to catch up with all my old chums, particularly on Thanksgiving, a day which holds such fond memories - especially 2006.
A little history: I am not really a Lions fan, although I did like Barry Sanders as a kid, and I remember watching every week in 1989 when they started something like 2-9 and then rattled off five wins in a row, but didn't make the playoffs (they did once in awhile back in those days). I grew up a 49er fan, as I still am to some degree, but I follow college football more. I am from Oregon and like most Oregonian football fans, I follow local guys when they make it to the NFL, regardless of the team. That led me around 2002 to Lions boards because they drafted Joey Harrington, and I became a very enthusiastic fan of the Lions, until I saw how Joey was treated in Detroit, and how his approach to football and life was such a bad fit there. He is still pretty popular among Oregon fans, although there have been bigger stars in the years since he played at the U of O. The player that has all of our attention now is Justin Herbert, and he appears to have landed in a pretty good situation in L.A. I would personally like to thank Detroit for not drafting him. I like to think they took pity on him in memory of Joey.
Anyway, it's nice to see that Tech and Golden and Hunter and Felix and Def and the rest of y'all are still around. Hope everyone is staying safe, and enjoy your Thanksgiving!
Wow, good to see you, Phalanx. Been a long time. Im sure you saw it, but there was actually just an article about Joey the other day, talking about some things that happened here and the Miami TDay win...it was a good read if you havent seen it. One of the local Det papers i believe.
Wow, good to see you, Phalanx. Been a long time. Im sure you saw it, but there was actually just an article about Joey the other day, talking about some things that happened here and the Miami TDay win...it was a good read if you havent seen it. One of the local Det papers i believe.
Hi Felix,
I confess that the article you reference came up on my feed on yahoo and was the reason I looked all of you up again, although as I say, I do so every year or two. Except for the bit about hearing back from Billy Joel (which is a pretty cool part of the story) the article wasn't actually new material - it was modeled after an interview Joey did several years ago. It is an interesting study in NFL quarterbacks and what makes them successful though. I have always thought if Joey had sat like Aaron Rogers, he would have done better, but unfortunately for him, he was chosen too high in the draft to sit. It has been quite a change to see Justin take the NFL by storm; everything is just so much easier for him. So maybe there is something to the idea that a huge 6'6'' frame and a rocket arm are traits that will always play in the NFL.
Anyway, nice to see you. I don't follow the Lions much anymore, but I notice they lost by quite a bit today and everyone is calling for the coach to be fired. It's nice to know that while so much of life changes, some things can always be depended upon to remain the same.
Im a big believer in sitting QBs too...I know there is too much pressure a lot of times, but it just seems that QBs that sit seem to have so much more success...even recently, Mahommes sat a year...