Sunday might be the most important day in Lions history so far
Here we are. Not long ago it looked like this is a place that we would never be in. Back in 2020 after Thanos snapped his fingers and wiped out half the Lions roster, most of the front office staff and all of the coaches, you wondered how long it might take to rebuild to […]
Here we are. Not long ago it looked like this is a place that we would never be in. Back in 2020 after Thanos snapped his fingers and wiped out half the Lions roster, most of the front office staff and all of the coaches, you wondered how long it might take to rebuild to a point where the Lions could be a team that could simply be good enough to make the playoffs.
Who could have know that in just three seasons, the Lions would surpass that goal and be a team that can do much more than just make the playoffs? They're a team that can win it all if they're able to play like they played against the Broncos last Saturday.
Maybe it's a bit overstated since this is a team that won NFL championships before the Super Bowl era and this is a team that's won divsion titles before too, but this is the most important game this team has ever played before. Sunday's importance is just at another level than anything else right now.
It's because of what it took to get here and what the fans of this team had to go through to get to this moment. For fans of other teams, this is just another day. Division titles are just something you win sometimes and they're something you don't win sometimes. for Lions fans it's a 30 year hike through the worst kind of mediocrity you could imagine.
It's like Andy Dufresne crawling through five football fields worth of sewer pipe and being a free man at the end of it. Lions fans have a football field left to go and then they can get out of the shit and stand triumphantly in the rain. Actually snow in this case becasue it's cold out there right now.
The importance of Sunday goes ups o high because a win over the Vikings means so much more than just clinching their first division title since 1993 or their first NFC North title ever. They also clinch the playoffs for the first time since 2016 and they move ahead to second place in the NFC standings. They would also host a playoff game for the first time ever in Ford Field.
This is everything. This is the moment when the Lions can prove that it's real and that you're not dreaming. They can prove that they are no fluke. They are real contenders and they must be taken seriously.
So yeah, no pressure or anything.
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