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[kmag]

Why didn't they put Megatron in the end zone on the hail mary? Most teams defending an obvious hail mary will use tall wide receivers if they have them rather than shorter linebackers.

 

[keeblerdrow]

Can anyone summarize the shame that is the Detroit Lions for us non NFL fans.

I watch, on average, a half a game of football every year. The latter half of every Thanksgiving Lions game so I can spend time with my dad and uncles. Let me give you a perspective of Lions fans from a non-sports fan who as witnessed and lived among them for his whole life.

Imagine the Lions fan as a man of middle age, hunched and bowed from a life of hard work and bad fortune. He is sitting on a hard stool in the middle of a furnace. The man has a piece of hard wood in one hand, a small and dull knife in the other. He has been sitting his whole life on this stool, sharp pains lancing up his back and down his leg. He has been whittling this hard wood with this knife all that time, making something beautiful, one day. He is untouched by the flames of the furnace around him, but it is constantly consuming his sculpture every time it begins to take a form that pleases him.

He is a Lions fan.

 

[casinoman921]

Only the Lions could leave a receiver that open on a Hail Mary.

Oh well, maybe we'll get a good draft pick this year after all. And fire Caldwell.

 

[FelixOrion]

The Salty Skipper without a Bay

 

[shadowsdarknes]

Detroit came out on fire. Fizzled out.

Packers got a lot of work to go to get back into their old self.

 

[Pop-O-Matic]

Can anyone summarize the shame that is the Detroit Lions for us non NFL fans.

They have the 2nd longest playoff drought of any team in the NFL today, with the only team beating them having been deactivated for 4 years...

 

[WedgeX]

I wish I had a Cleveland Browns fan to hold me right now.

Some recent games that were way worse than this one:

2010 opener against the Bears that ended with Calvin getting robbed of the game-winning TD

Losing Stafford to injury and the lead in the final moments against the Jets in 2010

Matt Flynn having the greatest performance in Packers history in the final game of the 2011 season with half the Packer's starters benched and playing against a Lions team that was desperately fighting to win in GB for the first time in decades.

Colts scoring 2 TDs in the final 2 minutes in Luck's rookie year, including the game winner as time expired.

2012 Thanksgiving game against the Texans when they got screwed because Schwartz throwing a challenge on a scoring play, thus nullifying the review which would have showed that it wasn't a TD. Not to mention Jason Hanson missing what would have been the game winning FG in OT.

Justin Tucker going 6/6 on field goals, including kicking the 61 yarder to beat the Lions on MNF and essentially end their season in 2013.

Last years WC playoff against the Cowboys

Calvin fumbling at the 1 yard-line against the Seahawks

All of these.

Got dang it.

 

[B.O.O.M]

Just curious, what's this facemask play people keep mentioning?

https://streamable.com/hnr3

That link shows the play prior and the final both with audio.

What an epic f up by the Lions. Close call on the face mask tho

 

[JimJamJones]

Got drunk last night watching us suck in Detroit. Passed out with around 4 or 5 minutes left in the game.

Woke up today thinking we lost. Come on GAF and see we won.

 

[TheGreatMightyPoo]

*Greatest clutch play I ever witnessed!*

*Dumbest statement I have ever witnessed(ok, not quite)*

There's nothing clutch about a Hail Mary pass.

 

[MechaX]

*Dumbest statement I have ever witnessed(ok, not quite)*

There's nothing clutch about a Hail Mary pass.

It was clutch in the sense that the Lions decided to have shorter motherfuckers stay lined up behind the Packers receivers in an obvious Hail Mary play.

 

[TheGreatMightyPoo]

It was clutch in the sense that the Lions decided to have shorter motherfuckers stay lined up behind the Packers receivers in an obvious Hail Mary play.

True, the Lions are always crutch.

Look at their QB, you can't win with a dope like that.

 

[Sulik2]

The Lions always finding new ways to lose. I wish I could quit caring.

 

[whytemyke]

I went to bed at the end of the third, Lions up a TD, knowing we were going to give away that game.

Lions fans know this is a minor blip on the shitty loss radar...

 

[SyNapSe]

The only thing Detroit has to play for is draft position anyway

 

[TheGreatMightyPoo]

The only thing Detroit has to play for is draft position anyway

They need to get a QB.

And this is from someone who's a Bears and Cutler fan, haha.

Matt Stafford will never lead the Lions to anything.

 

[NihonTiger90]

Can anyone summarize the shame that is the Detroit Lions for us non NFL fans.

Imagine the worst high school football team you can think of.

They would still be better than this shitshow.

 

[NihonTiger90]

They need to get a QB.

And this is from someone who's a Bears and Cutler fan, haha.

Matt Stafford will never lead the Lions to anything.

TheGreatMightyPoo
Mouthpiece of the Holy Truth

 

[NoblesseOblige]

As someone who has lived in Michigan their whole life, what's a Lions' fan?

Just google "Lions fan" and you get ...

 

[Ray Wonder]

Why didn't they put Megatron in the end zone on the hail mary? Most teams defending an obvious hail mary will use tall wide receivers if they have them rather than shorter linebackers.

This is exactly what I was thinking. Megatron would've probably caught that shit.

 

[Sulik2]

Can anyone summarize the shame that is the Detroit Lions for us non NFL fans.

They have won one playoff game since 1957 which predates the Superbowl era.

 

[ElectricBlanketFire]

Can anyone summarize the shame that is the Detroit Lions for us non NFL fans.

 

[jmizzal]

Why the fuck was Calvin Johnson on the side lines? He's 6'5 and has played defense in these situations.

Jim Caldwell

And they played the whole Hail merry wrong, they were more worried about 20 laterals then the hail merry lol

 

[NEOPARADIGM]

They have won one playoff game since 1957 which predates the Superbowl era.

Also worth noting: the year they won that one playoff game, they were blitzed the next week by the Redskins, 45-0.

 

[kopitarrulez_11]

Great win for Packers...but dat facemask call to save them the game prior---I'm not so sure of that. I guess if your thumb touching the facemask is a penalty. But come on.

Congrats, Packers. I think.

I don't know why they didn't challenge the idiots the replay clearly showed he grabbed his shoulder

 

[UberTag]

Can anyone summarize the shame that is the Detroit Lions for us non NFL fans.

Bottle up the sense of disappointment that it was to be a Buffalo Bills fan from 1991 to 1994 and losing four consecutive Super Bowls... and then imagine if that was your everyday life over the span of several decades.

That is the life of a Detroit Lions fan. It's like losing the Super Bowl every time you watch your team play.

 

[TheFrza]

I don't know why they didn't challenge the idiots the replay clearly showed he grabbed his shoulder

The foul can't be challenged. It's probably something the Competition Committee will look at in the offseason, for obvious reasons

 

[Loxley]

The way that dude on the right just sinks out of frame slays me.

 

[NerdEyeBlind]

A bad call made up for a bad non-call.

Great pass but all successful Hail Mary's are lucky plays.

Spoiler

GOPACKGO

 

[Ray Wonder]

The way that dude on the right just sinks out of frame slays me.

Wow, lol it looks like he's like edited in there.

 

[DonasaurusRex]

as a long time fan i knew this was coming by half time when once again, the defense served up a shut out in the first half and the Lions offense failed to seal the deal and score ONE more touchdown in 3 quarters, Matthew Fattford spotted the opposing team a turnover , and was doing his patented "slinging" of the ball. I knew it was coming because it has happened for the past 2 years, the defense even while depleted is still above avg. But boy did we bet the whole farm for a mediocre quarterback, while simultaneously telling defensive players to really "hustle and prove you want to be on the team". I'm glad the owner cleared house , the rest will be gone soon enough and if i had my way i'd cut Fattford and his contract. Unless its an absolute blow out he cannot ice a game.

 

[Tom Nook]

Not a Lion fan but DAMN!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LMAO!!!!!!!!!


Still, that was no face mask penalty.

 

[Trey]

Nothing can top this, lol.

Calvin Johnson with the "I can't" collapse.

 

[Zen_Arcade]

After the way the Browns lost on Monday this just looks like a regular football game to me.

Bottle up the sense of disappointment that it was to be a Buffalo Bills fan from 1991 to 1994 and losing four consecutive Super Bowls... and then imagine if that was your everyday life over the span of several decades.

That is the life of a Detroit Lions fan. It's like losing the Super Bowl every time you watch your team play.

Detroit Lions fans don't even know what it feels like to lose a Super Bowl.

 

[Tom Nook]

Stephen A Smith: He's a baaaaadd Maaaaaannn!!

Rodgers watching himself

 

[CDV13]

I wish I had a Cleveland Browns fan to hold me right now.

I'm right here buddy, right here. *Reaches*

 

[RobNBanks]

The way that dude on the right just sinks out of frame slays me.

didnt even notice lol

makes the gif so much better

 

[BadAss2961]

The way that dude on the right just sinks out of frame slays me.

Calvin just lets the Earth swallow him.

 

[PeskyToaster]

Can't have the highs without the lows, boys. Super Bowl bound next season, heard it here first.

 

[bryehn]

Gotta make sure I see the First Take re-run for that Skip Bayless salt.

 

[woodypop]

The way that dude on the right just sinks out of frame slays me.

Oh, that's hilarious! (thx for pointing it out)

 

[statham]

The way that dude on the right just sinks out of frame slays me.

roofles.

 

[HiResDes]

I like Rogers and the Packers, but someone needs to post an up close picture of that alleged facemask...Twas complete bullshit.

 

[diffusionx]

On one hand: this is one of the most brutal losses I've seen.

On the other hand: it's the Lions, they were 4-7, even if they won this something else would have happened later. This wasn't exactly Bill Buckner.

I like Rogers and the Packers, but someone needs to post an up close picture of that alleged facemask...Twas complete bullshit.

In the moment, in real time, that would get called every time.

 

[Tom Nook]

Gotta make sure I see the First Take re-run for that Skip Bayless salt.

 

[PeskyToaster]

I wish I had a Cleveland Browns fan to hold me right now.

 

[spyder_ur]

In the span of three days the Browns lost via a blocked kick return when they were kicking a winning field goal in a tie game and the Lions lost on a hail mary after a botched penalty call on what would have been the last play of the game. Incredible. Never change, Browns and Lions.

Is that Ted Cruz above or am I crazy?

 

[PillarEN]

I love it. Most of my fantasy football friends are Lions fans. I get so much joy out of their misery

 

[Mass Effect]

thank you for this, OP. I was hoping to see some crowd reactions to what happened last night, but they never showed any (or I missed them).

This reaction by Lion superfans in the stadium killed me lol

https://twitter.com/barstoolsports/status/672653807206187008

lmao I was hoping someone made a gif out of this. It's going to get a lot of use around GAF I suspect.

 

[the wurm]

This reaction by Lion superfans in the stadium killed me lol

https://twitter.com/barstoolsports/status/672653807206187008

Big Cat is the best. His commentary on Detroit Don and Superfan throughout that game on twitter was hilarious.