Posted on 02/13/2022 7:06:46 AM PST by NOBO2012
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!!
Posted from: MOTUS A.D.
Post season game days are great for going downtown, or to one of the nearby state or nat’l parks. Or to the beach. No lines. None of the people you wouldn’t ordinarily want to share space with are around.
Sounds priggish but there it is.
No one deserves a ring without first earning it
This will be his best chance ever.
The nfl hates you. Wtf.
People still do this?
The nfl hates you. Wtf.
I wonder if the super bowl,will feature the black “natio al anthem” and will kneel during the proper national anthem?
I will be tuned in to Live Streaming from Ottawa Canada. It is more exciting! It is historic. It will be drama unfolding. Justin, JUST DROP THE MANDATES.
Battered wives.
Enjoy watching the pansies in tight and shiny pants.
Hope the pants you like wins.
...and you are right...
...I won't be watching.
Opening ceremonies include a flyover of an A-10C Thunderbolt II, an F-16, an F-22 Raptor, and —— wait for it -— an F-35 - flown by a female pilot -— at an NFL game! Freepers will have their panties in a triple twist!
Who Dey!
I'm pulling for young Joe "Cool" Burrow in this game tonight, but I'm picking the Rams because of Stafford.
It's possible that Stafford's escape from the Ford family's little hobby team and his instantaneous success could embarrass them enough to actually try harder and ...
But I'm going to hold my breath.
Wonder what the Monday wife beating score will be?.
They are NPC’s. Simple as that.
It may well be that what the NFL has done does not offend them a’tall. If they thought about it at all, they either say “Ok with me”, or “As long as I’m left alone you can do what you want to THOSE people.”
Imagine that you are looking out your window late at night and see a bunch of thugs burning a cross on the lawn of you next door neighbor, and you do nothing. If you are ever in a tight spot, do not look to these for any sort of help.
Amen.
I was once an enthusiastic NFL fan. Not that long ago. But I too will not be watching the Super Bowl and I haven’t watched a single game in two years.
You made your point, twice.
I’ll tell you why. I couldn’t really care less and I hate seeing the self-righteous libelous chastisement painted on the end zones and sidelines for every game.
My mother loves football, mostly NFL. While OTOH she constantly pontificates about America and how it is in grave danger, she has nothing much left in her life.
She is basically alone after my father died before this scamdemic. She has a hard time emotionally and isn’t very together about handling finances, etc. the country seems to be falling apart which she loves so much, and NFL was like her only enjoyment.
Mom is almost 85 and has little else, including little else to do. She loved the Baltimore Colts and adored Johnny U. Our 50th anniversary present to her and dad was a wonderful seat on a wonderful day at a Ravens-Steelers game at home. She has a hard time letting go, and she has almost nothing else.
That’s one person’s reason.
I’ll give her that.
Now, go screw your head up a ducks bum.
I’m expecting it, having seen the nasty, race dividing leftist tactics of the last 30 years.
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