SB Nation User Blog: Lostincali

Detroit News interview with Rodriguez about upcoming season.

Lostincali — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:07:14 -0000

Detroit News interview with Rodriguez about upcoming season.

Nothing super illuminating here, but its worth the minute or two it takes to read it.

Andy Staples @ SI.com takes a look at BCS expansion

Lostincali — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 21:40:23 -0000

Andy Staples @ SI.com takes a look at BCS expansion

I thought this article was interesting considering you guys have talked about which schools the Big Ten might take/want in the event of an expansion. It covers the Big Ten but also the Big 12 and the Pac 10. It's not great, but it is an interesting read.

Don't think of me as crazy

Lostincali — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 05:47:18 -0000

I like a lot of the optimism I've been reading in some of the recent posts. I know we have all been fooled before, especially over the last 9 years. This year however, does genuinely feel different. I am hopeful for the possibility of more wins than loses in our future, even if they come slowly.

With that being said, i live in California, and rarely, if ever, make it home to Detroit during football season, but I've made sure its okay with the wife if the unthinkable happened and the Lions made the Superbowl, that I could pay just about whatever for a ticket home to Motown to watch with friends in family .

Now my question to everybody on here is this, if the Lions somehow make it there( obviously not this season, and probably not next) would you rather be at the game, enjoying it in person, or would you rather be home (or if its not your home, Detroit) to be part of the party that would take place if they actually won the Lombardi trophy?

I feel like Detroit would be crazier than I could ever remember it being after the championships I have been there for. What are your thoughts?

You guys have been busy

Lostincali — Tue, 05 May 2009 21:44:52 -0000

Looks like you guys have got a lot done in a short time here. Keep it up, it looks great.

I look forward to visiting here alot to keep up on all things Spartan related. I know the profile says Michigan Wolverines, but I still root for you guys when you're playing any other team (except for the WMU Broncos, which doesn't happen to often.)

So good luck in whatever season it is, I look forward to some civil conversations in the future.

General Sherman

Lostincali — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:11:40 -0000

I don't know if I missed this at some point, but how is it that Sherman came to be the secondary logo or guardian to this page. Is it a jab at the SEC and and how he tore up the South, the fact that he was Ohio born, is it both? Just curious. He is one of my favorite figures from the Civil War and I love that he is prominantly figured on the site, but I never quite understood why?

Anyways, keep up the good work on the page.

Another Transfer

Lostincali — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:58:55 -0000

The Detroit News is reporting the Clemons is transferring out from U of M. Apparently he is unhappy about playing in the spread offense that Rodriguez uses and would like to better utilize his talents somewhere else. The good thing is that he wants to play outside of the Big Ten, which may be out of respect for Michigan as he said that his first love is still U of M.

Clemons Transferring from Michigan

Lions Logo

Lostincali — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 18:08:02 -0000

I remember a little while back a bunch of you posted your own take on what the new Lions logo should or would look like if you had the opportunity to design it yourself. I don't know if anybody saw that the Detroit News ran a contest to design one(maybe that is where the original post here came from?) but they posted the winner on their website along with a gallery of other entries. Some of them are pretty cool, some not so much. The winning design is actually really nice except for the shade of blue it uses. Anyway I'm posting a link to the contest winner and there is a link on that page to look through the gallery of the other entries. Enjoy!

Detroit Lions Logo

Hockey at Michigan Stadium

Lostincali — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 21:25:32 -0000

Hockey at Michigan Stadium

There was a short article at the Detroit Free Press discussing the possibility of Michigan hosting an outdoor hockey game. I think it would be pretty cool if it happened, can you imagine 100 + thousand people at a college hockey game?

Anyway I posted the link below, but there isn't too much info in it, but it's worth checking out.

Rambling

Lostincali — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 03:22:49 -0000

I knew it would happen today. i knew that Detroit would not get their only win of the season in Green Bay, there was noway two streaks could end today. I have even been contemplating whether or not this would be a good thing because it might actually lead to real change for a team I have grown up loving.

Yet, here I am hours after 0 - 16 has become a reality, and it still feels like somebody sucker punched me in the gut. Somewhere deep down inside my stomach and in the parts of my brain that (evidently) don't work so well, I think I still felt that they might pull it out. Thats the only way I can explain this shocked(although I don't think that is the proper word) feeling.

As much as I want to say I have had enough, I will be back next. I will watch Ford make another bad decision. I'll allow myself to get duped by some seemingly hope filled instant in which the Lions will look like a real NFL team. and come next December I suspect I will once again have a feeling very similar to the one I have at this moment. I think my only solace is knowing that I do not suffer alone.

So to the other faithful on here, enjoy the off season and lets hope for a better Lions team next year.

Marinelli

Lostincali — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 21:19:07 -0000

I am honestly not as up to date on the Lions as most who post here are, I get only what is published nationally or in the News and Free Press online additions because I live out of state. But I have been hearing alot of things from people about how Marinelli is a good guy and a good coach and he was dealt a bad hand in Detroit and will do better elsewhere.

I don't buy it.

1. He knew what he was getting into when he took the Detroit job, if he didn't, then he is not as smart as people give him credit for. People in Detroit had been calling for Millen's ouster almost since he took over, and the press had repeatedly written about how bad of a GM Millen was, so Marinelli knew what the front office was like, stop using that as an excuse for him.

2. Injuries...I'd buy it if other teams with key injuries weren't continuing to stay in the playoff picture.

3. Nepotism, there should not be any room for it on the staff of a multi-million (billion) dollar business. Especially when Joe Barry sucks at his job.Not that I think Coletto is any better.

4. Stanton...why would he ever want to play for Marinelli...I get that he is probably not the future of this team (Iwould bank on that), but to give a guy who has the playbook for like 2 days the nod ahead of him just seems counter productive, but I could be wrong.

Anyways, I jsut had ot throw that out there, for what is worth.. which is probably not much. I just getting annoyed with all of these people from outside of Detroit say how good Marinelli really is.