Pride of Detroit
A winning or losing season is decided by dozens, if not hundreds, of inflection points. If one play call, penalty, fumble, drop, missed tackle goes the other way, it potentially changes the entire outcome of a game. Similarly, a franchise’s direction also has plenty of moments, decisions, and signings that drastically alter the course of the reality we’re living in.
As a Detroit Lions fan, there are probably hundreds of moments you wish you could change. With so much failure in this team’s history, the past seven decades have been filled with bad decisions, poor plays, unlucky moments, and mismanagement.
Today, let’s pretend you have the power to change ONE thing from Lions history. Today’s Question of the Day is:
My answer: So many things immediately jump to mind.
I wish Jim Caldwell would’ve gone for it after the picked up pass interference flag in Dallas. I wish the Lions would have never hired Matt Patricia. I wish Kindle Vildor would’ve caught that interception. I wish Aidan Hutchinson, Marcus Davenport, Alim McNeill, Carlton Davis, Derrick Barnes, Alex Anzalone, and Malcolm Rodriguez hadn’t gotten injured in 2024. I wish the Lions would’ve drafted Aaron Donald instead of Eric Ebron.
But maybe more than anything else, I wish we could’ve gotten more years out of Barry Sanders.
I don’t know if the Lions would’ve seen any more team success if Barry had played two or three or four more seasons, but what I do know is he would’ve provided us with another three minutes worth of highlights, broken a few other records, and just provided teenage me with another dozen precious memories.
Either that or keeping Matt Millen as far away from this franchise as possible.
