The Football Gods Hate Detroit
I’d feel bad for Detroit but I don’t even think the fanbase was all that torn up about the recent loss to the Ravens. Just felt like par for the course that they’d have a questionable call result in a ridiculous game-winning kick. It was like Lions fans just collectively went “yup” and took another swig of their absynthe. Lions fans know how to handle this. I can’t tell them how bad I feel for them. They don’t care. My words and my suffering are nothing to them.
I will say that I think Campbell has shown signs of being a good coach down the line once the roster isn’t a pile of shit anymore. Goff sucks and is a stop-gap. The defense is a screen door. The offensive line exists as a theoretical. But they got fight in them. They almost came back against the 49ers in a game they were being destroyed in for 3 quarters. They held down the Packers for a full half before the grip got loose. They broke the Ravens down to the wire and only lost due to the league’s most legendary kicker making a kick so long nobody had ever officially made it before. They are scrappy and they are going to pull off a few surprising wins this season, just you watch. Whether or not any of that means jack shit in the long run, well that’s for the future to know.
Justin Tucker remains a load of bullshit, but I love that he made a kick so barely that if he had kicked it from half a yard further back, he would have missed. Hell maybe even just a quarter-yard back might have been enough to change the angle of the bounce.
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God damned Justin Tucker always ruining my day. Fucking Fuck Fuckity Fuckin’ Ravens Fuck! I hate ‘em! I hate ‘em all!
Got to love how YA Tittle is still bleeding from the head, even in the afterlife.
I just noticed that. This truly makes my day.
The Lions will win next week, Mark my words.
I’m going to admit, I mixed up Bobby Layne with Dick Lane and my initial thought was “Why did Dave make Night Train white?”
I did the same thing when I googled for reference. I typed “Bobby Night Train Lane” and got confused when google gave me mostly a black guy as the result, before I remembered that was Dick ‘Night Train’ lane and Bobby Layne was different
Why is Tucker a load of bullshit?
Did u see what he did! That’s some bs in a good way!
I think it’s funny that even 13 years after the supposed “Curse of Bobby Layne” expired, the Lions are still sucking and ruining players. I’m a Packers fan and I don’t hate the Lions, they’ve been bad for so long.
I’m impressed by the way the Lions are playing this year. They aren’t good, but they’re disciplined and refuse to concede anything to superior teams. If Dan Campbell can maintain this sort professional pride through an entire losing season he’ll be a pretty good head coach.
Sort of like the texans
Honestly for me the 4th and 19 hurts more than the delay of game and the field goal. Once they converted on 4th and 19, the rest felt inevitable.
That field goal reminds me of the one in Eyeshield 21 where the ball bounced off the crossbar on its way in. Tucker’s kick had a higher bounce though so I can imagine all the Lions fans going “YAAAAAAY!” to “NOOOOO!!!” within a second.
That kick probably had inches of leeway. The crossbar is only 6in or so thick
Are we sure Ben can’t play anymore? I watched the Steelers season opener against Buffalo and he looked fine in the second half. Not the Big Ben of old, but his arm still looked alright. It seems more like the Steelers non-existent o-line that’s killing them to me
That was before he injured a pec. Honestly, the Steelers have been hurt worse by all the injuries on the defense. This season, it feels like the games will either be close and it all comes up to whether or not Ben can make up the difference, or they will be blowouts in favor of the other team if the defense is gone. We’ve seen all three so far.
Wait, he injured himself again? Yeah he’s done
Jerseys with long sleeves! I’m a sucker for artwork of old timey football players. Well done.
As a football fan, Tucker’s kick was beautiful and insanely accurate given the distance (almost hit right in the middle of the crossbar!) and I’m glad I got to witness a bit of NFL history live. As a Lions fan, I was kinda speechless for a minute, then I had to laugh for another minute because it’s the Lions, what else is new. I agree with Lionsfan above though, if they’d just stopped the 4th and 19 it would’ve ended right there. That part stings more than the kick.
Also, “Applebees is trash” and “God Hates The Lions” are officially recurring tags now.
Please make this a thing like the IR Bar. Thanks.
Weird thing is even if the refs hadn’t missed the delay of game I feel Tucker would have just said well I got to add another 5 yards to the kick and he still would have made it
That kick was ridiculous, straight out of Eyeshield 21. Musashi made a kick that doinked the crossbar twice before going through to win the Christmas Bowl against Teikoku – but even that was only(!) 6 yards shorter than Tucker’s kick. He was the last of the Bats to fulfil the nickname Hiruma gave him of the “60-Yard Magnum”.
Speaking of doinks, I don’t know where the mic was when Jason Sanders hit the post against the Raiders, but it was BLOODY loud…