I'm actually home on a Monday night and I thought I'd watch the 49er's-Cards game as we face both these teams coming up.  I click on the TV and what do I see?!  The big, ugly, moronic face of 'he who shall not be named' spewing his incompetence for the world to see.  After the fiasco that has been the 2009 season in Detroit, a lot of the blame can be laid at the feet of this idiot, who ran the team into the ground the previous 8 years.  It made me stop and think (after I changed the channel) about the new regime in Detroit.

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MLive.com and Bleacher Report.com are reporting that the Lions are selecting Matthew Stafford as the #1 pick in Saturdays draft.

NFL.com’s Thomas George was told by a source in the Detroit Lions organization that they select Stafford regardless of whether a deal is in place by the beginning of the draft Saturday at 4 p.m

I can't verify this through any official reports but, for the most part, MLIVE and Bleacher Report are pretty reliable. I expected this and it looks like it's becoming close to official. Simon Wilcott on the NFL network is in Detroit and says that the guaranteed money has been agreed to but how it gets paid out is not. Lions want 3-4 years, Stafford (Condon) want it in two years. Everything should be finalized, or close to it, by draft time tomorrow, if not sooner. Welcome to Detroit, Matthew.

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Aaron Curry had an interview on Sirrius radio yesterday and says he'd take less money than last years #1 pick, Jake Long, to be a Detroit Lion.

This would be a freaking coup. Best player in the draft and they don't have to spend $40 mil to get him. I've been on the Curry bandwagon since day one. The Lions need to get this deal done before the Draft. I just hope it's not posturing to get Stafford to take less money.

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Jerry Green from the Detroit News has written a fantastic article extolling on the virtues, knowledge and capabilities of self-proclaimed draft guru, Mel Kiper. He goes on to say that because Mel Kiper picks Stafford at #1, the Lions would be wise to listen.

Fantastic article and funny read. Thanks, Jerry.

Mel Kiper (and Todd McShay) are complete and total idiots. Let them yell at each other and please guys, leave the rest of us out of it. No one except ESPN gives a crap what you think. If you want knowledgeable information, listen to Mike Mayock over at the NFL network.

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Way off topic but every year this impresses the hell out of me more and more. I had to share.

The family and I just got home from watching "Thunder over Louisville" which is the opening night of a two week celebration leading up to the Kentucky Derby. There was an air show all day over the riverfront (living so close to the river, I could watch most of the airshow from my yard). This evening was the Thunder fireworks display. There were over 800,000 people lining the Ohio River on the Kentucky/Indiana border. One hell of a party.

When I moved here 6 years ago I had seen several very large and impressive fireworks shows. Washington DC on July 4th, 1976 (07/04 is my birthday), Disney World on New Years Eave and several others. Folks here told me "you gotta check this out, it will blow your mind". I did and it did.

After more than a decade, the show remains the largest annual pyrotechnic display in North America. Seen by approximately 1-million U.S. Armed Forces, Department of Defense civilian employees and their families stationed in 176 countries and aboard 140 U.S. Navy ships at sea via a July 4th rebroadcast on the American Forces Network, it is the state's pride. A Discovery Channel documentary on fireworks shows says it best, "Thunder is the Grand-daddy of them all!".

This is a phenomenal fireworks show. Check out the link above for the video. The fireworks show this year lasted 28 minutes, synced to music that was blaring out of speakers around the river front. You could also listen to the music on the radio. To give you a scope for how large it is, there are 8 barges on each side of one of the bridges from Indiana to Louisville packed with fireworks. They close the bridge and load it up with fireworks as well. That bridge you see in the video lit up with explosions is almost a mile long. If you ever get the chance and you like fireworks, this is a show you've got to see.

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with Georgia QB Matthew Stafford, Wake Forest LB Aaron Curry and Baylor OT Jason Smith.

Everyone knows I'd prefer Curry overall and have been on that bandwagon from day one. I could handle either Jason Smith or Matthew Stafford (rather have Mark Sanchez, though) at 1-1 but they for sure need to get the pick signed before next Saturday. With the unveiling of the new uniforms on Monday, I kind of hoped they'd announce who they're selecting then. Very good marketing/publicity stunt.

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