NFL '14 Season Thread

[SirHumper]

The Detroit Lions are one of the NFL’s most storied franchises, as they entered the league in 1930 as the Portsmouth Spartans, and became the Detroit Lions in 1934. The Lions were a very competitive team back in the 1950’s, and have four championships to date. But they have never been to the Super Bowl, and have mostly been futile for the past 57 year’s, with just one playoff-round win in 1991 a 38-6 victory over the Dallas Cowboys.

In 1958, the Lions traded their star quarterback Bobby Layne to the Pittsburgh Steelers. Layne responded to the trade by supposedly saying that the Lions would "not win for 50 years. For the next 50 years after the trade, the Lions accumulated the worst winning percentage of any team in the NFL. They are still one of only two franchises that have been in the NFL since 1930 that have not played in a Super Bowl (the other team is the Cleveland Browns, although the first Browns team did win the Super Bowl after the 2000 and 2012 seasons as the transplanted Baltimore Ravens). The Lions, for those 50 years, were 1-10 in ten postseason appearances; their lone playoff win came against Dallas following the 1991 regular season. In the last year of the 50-year curse, 2008, Detroit went 0-16 and thus became the first team to lose every game of a 16-game season.

Coincidentally, in the 2009 NFL Draft, right after the curse supposedly expired, the Detroit Lions drafted University of Georgia quarterback Matthew Stafford first overall. He came from Highland Park High School, the same high school as Layne, and lived in a house on the same street as Layne's. In 2011, Stafford's first full injury-free season, he led the Lions to their first playoff berth since 1999 but still failed to win a playoff game when Drew Brees and the New Orleans Saints defeated them

The local Kool-Aid drinkers keep saying it looks like the Lions just might pull it off this year! ... but the Lions always go down to defeat and disappoint their loyal fan base. It’s the same old Lions, year after year after year.,,,,, It’s so bad that the Michigan State Police are cracking down on speeders heading into Detroit. For the first offense, they give you two Detroit Lions tickets. if you get stopped a second time, they make you use them.

My fearless 2014 Detroit Lions forecast:

The Detroit Lions fail to win a Championship for the 58th consecutive year.

 

[feller469]

^^At least they are consistent.

 

[Red001]

as long as the Packers and Bears do not fall completely apart the lions will always be looking up at those two teams

 

[SirHumper]

Donald Trump remains in the running to buy the Buffalo Bills.

And so are NHL Buffalo Sabres owners Terry and Kim Pegula, a person close to the process confirmed.

Michael Cohen, Trump's executive vice president and special counsel, confirmed in an email to the AP that his boss was chosen to advance to the next round of bidding. Cohen said he was informed of the decision by Morgan Stanley, the banking firm overseeing the sale of the team for late owner Ralph Wilson's estate. The Bills most recently were valued by Forbes at $870 million but are expected to sell for at least $1 billion, partly because NFL teams rarely go on the market.

Trump is bidding on his own he is prepared to make an all-cash offer.

 

[BCT]

Gotta love the new emphasis on illegal contact. Fuck this pre- determined shit. Dictator Goodell has a goal, Peyton will win and win this year. The seasons already been decided just hand the fucker the trophy and save our time.

 

[Neutron66]

Gotta love the new emphasis on illegal contact. Fuck this pre- determined shit. Dictator Goodell has a goal, Peyton will win and win this year. The seasons already been decided just hand the fucker the trophy and save our time.

Everyone said the exact same thing last year. Remember how that ended?

 

[BCT]

Everyone said the exact same thing last year. Remember how that ended?

They tried and that's why they changed the rule this year to ensure it, I'm sick of arguing with dumb fucks like you that can't see what's in front of them, this game is ruined.

 

[ThatRedWing]

They tried and that's why they changed the rule this year to ensure it, I'm sick of arguing with dumb fucks like you that can't see what's in front of them, this game is ruined.

Paranoid much? If the NFL had its way it would have Rodgers/Romo and Brady/Manning in the Conference title games every year. The last I checked Rodgers has the most recent Super Bowl win of the four and Romo hasn't even sniffed a title game. Brady hasn't won a Super Bowl in ten years. I would be more likely to buy a conspiracy if it ends up being Cleveland/Detroit in the Super Bowl to push the "Any given Sunday/Season" mantra.

 

[D-rock]

I can somewhat understand the friendly dislike of people on a team from a rival or disliking a team run by jerks, and I can see disliking a player because they are a scumbag in real life, but the irrational player hate is something I have always found funny in sports. At the very least if one is going to hate on a player they should at least have some logical basis for it, and baring that should at least admit it's nonsensical.

 

[Jagger69]

I can somewhat understand the friendly dislike of people on a team from a rival or disliking a team run by jerks, and I can see disliking a player because they are a scumbag in real life, but the irrational player hate is something I have always found funny in sports. At the very least if one is going to hate on a player they should at least have some logical basis for it, and baring that should at least admit it's nonsensical.

Potentially the case if The Donald buys the Bills. I sure hope that doesn't happen. Frankly, I can't see the other NFL owners wanting him to join their club. Remember. he was the ringleader of the USFL antitrust lawsuit group against the NFL back in the 1980s. Some of those owners have long memories.

 

[Neutron66]

They tried and that's why they changed the rule this year to ensure it, I'm sick of arguing with dumb fucks like you that can't see what's in front of them, this game is ruined.

Wow. You're really a dipshit, aren't you?

You can't fix pro football. No matter how hard you try, you can't guarantee a receiver won't drop a pass or a running back won't fumble the ball.

Have fun in your stupid conspiracy world though, if it makes you feel good.

 

[Neutron66]

Potentially the case if The Donald buys the Bills. I sure hope that doesn't happen. Frankly, I can't see the other NFL owners wanting him to join their club. Remember. he was the ringleader of the USFL antitrust lawsuit group against the NFL back in the 1980s. Some of those owners have long memories.

I can't see Trump closing that deal. Even without the USFL, no one in the NFL wants that cocksucker owning a team. They know that if it happens, Trump will IMMEDIATELY think he's the most important guy in the league and he'll sue anyone who dares say otherwise. I'd almost rather see Bon Jovi move the team to Toronto if it means keeping Trump out of the league.

 

[Kiristo]

Seems likely the former Sabers owner is going to buy the Bills.

 

[BCT]

Wow. You're really a dipshit, aren't you?

You can't fix pro football. No matter how hard you try, you can't guarantee a receiver won't drop a pass or a running back won't fumble the ball.

Have fun in your stupid conspiracy world though, if it makes you feel good.

Go fuck yourselves you stupid sheep. It's very easy to fix it just takes one ref making a few calls. It's a multibillion dollar business do you think they would leave it all up to chance? Not a shot.

 

[Neutron66]

Go fuck yourselves you stupid sheep. It's very easy to fix it just takes one ref making a few calls. It's a multibillion dollar business do you think they would leave it all up to chance? Not a shot.

lol You're funny. I'm sorry your team (whoever they are) sucks so bad you feel the need to create a massive conspiracy theory to explain why they lose. That's really the common thread with most conspiracy theorists. They're just sad little people who are so pissed they don't get their way, they have to invent a gigantic conspiracy theory involving thousands of people just to make themselves feel righteous. It's been proven time and again.

 

[zeeblofowl_1969]

My team doesn't suck and I believe there's corruption in the officiating no where near the level of full on cheating there is in the NBA.

 

[BCT]

lol You're funny. I'm sorry your team (whoever they are) sucks so bad you feel the need to create a massive conspiracy theory to explain why they lose. That's really the common thread with most conspiracy theorists. They're just sad little people who are so pissed they don't get their way, they have to invent a gigantic conspiracy theory involving thousands of people just to make themselves feel righteous. It's been proven time and again.

Keep believing everything you're told bitch.

 

[BCT]

It's been proven time and again.

When was it proven? Now you're just talking out your ass. BTW I'm a packers fan and Rodgers deserves more hype than POS Manning.

 

[sean miguel]

Is anyone else not hyped about the upcoming football season? I watched Skip Bayless go on about Josh Gordon's personal problems on ESPN this morning and I was like fuck this. I called comcast and cancelled my sports package. At least I'll be spared a season's worth of Johnny Manziel drama.

I still get Animal Planet so there's the Puppy Bowl.

^ that's what I've been missing.

I've realized it's not sports so much I hate, it's sports journalism. Fuck ESPN. I'll just have to follow the local Seahawks, Huskies and Cougars from now on and maybe grow to like them and only tune in at kickoff. Chris Petersen is head coach at UW now. Maybe he brings that Boise State magic with him. Paint the field purple and let's do it.

 

[Neutron66]

Keep believing everything you're told bitch.

Keep believing whatever your tiny mind makes up, dipshit.