I know most of you won’t be watching the Super Bowl today and that’s fine. But we’ll be watching here at Casa MOTUS. You see, it’s a long tradition – watching as a former Detroit Lion performs magnificently and leads a new team to triumphant victory.
This time around it’s former Lion quarterback Matthew Stafford who will, quite possibly, lead the Rams offense to a Super Bowl championship in his first year as their QB. While I don’t relish giving LA officials any reason to celebrate their pathetic city, I’m here to tell you that Matthew Stafford deserves a Super Bowl ring.
He was Detroit's No. 1 pick in the 2009 NFL Draft, played hurt for his first two seasons before emerging as a reliable QB and a class act. He played for the Lions for 12 seasons, 12 long, dismal seasons like nearly every other Lions season in memory - the Lions have one playoff win since 1957, and now own the NFL's longest playoff win drought at 30 years.
The last time the Lions were #1 the Super Bowl didn’t even exist
The Lions have never been to a Super Bowl and never will, according to Raj, as long as they are owned by the Ford (yes, that Ford) family. The franchise is run more like a vanity business - existing more for ego gratification than success; as a result winning isn’t everything, in fact, it isn’t even a priority.
It’s worse than the curse of the goat
The team has repeatedly chewed up good athletes and spit them out, wasting their talents on perpetually mediocre teams with one or two good players because ownership never spends the sort of money needed to assemble a really good team. As a result they go through infrastructure ‘rebuilding seasons’ every few years but never actually Build Back Better™. Their non-winning strategy has either wasted or destroyed many a good athlete (e.g. Barry Sanders).
1999: they gave Barry Sanders a mural, but never a ring
This is the best any life-long Lions fan can hope for: to see one of their favorite Lions lead another team to victory. So while diehard Lions fans find us deplorable, we true loyalists have sworn our allegiance to Matthew Stafford who proved himself both loyal and true during his 12 years with the Lions. We’re not abandoning him now.
Even if he wears a different jersey and lives 3 time zones away.
And if you have no interest in football whatsoever this is for you:
HONK HONK!!
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