Yesterday, while watching my favorite sports shows, I heard that a group of Lions fans (all 5 of them) planned to stage a walkout during the second quarter of their slaughtering... er, game against the Bears. If this sounds familiar, then you remember they did this last year against Cincinnati. Look how much that accomplished! I understand how mad some Lions fans are that their team hasn't won a title since 1957 and has just one playoff win in that span, and if you want to express your feelings, then i guess so be it. But also realize that this is exactly what Millen and the Fords want you to do. They realized long before we did that people will pay to watch bad football, and because you show a pulse, they will continue to shovel that down your throat. So do the smart thing; show no passion for the Lions. Let them wallow in their own failures and stop supporting them with your money. Maybe then you might get some results.

P.S. For those who suggest Matt Millen should be fired, I agree. But there's nothing he can do that will convince the Fords to dump him. So get ready for "The Disaster: Year 7"!

After another horrific display by the Lions against the Vikings (I think Roy Williams dropped another one), one where they turned the ball over six times in a 30-20 loss, their record dropped to 2-11. While this is great news for the "Fire Millen" backers and those who want Brady Quinn (or Troy Smith for some of you), something bothers me. Even though I live in Detroit, the Lions should not have any right to AUTOMATICALLY show their home games with no competition from anyone else. Lions games have become low brow comedy with all the turnovers and poor defense, and here's a more practical reason besides to show better games. If you take away the instant cash flow these games generate, perhaps the Fords (who must be in competition for the "Greatest Bonehead Owners" award) would take this team seriously and make desperately needed changes. Fox should consider this whenever a bad matchup like next week's thriller against Green Bay occurs and "flex" it right out of there!

As the NFL season winds down, there are many interesting subplots. The Giants and Broncos are fading, the Cowboys and Chargers soar, the Jets surprise, and many others. But a (less than) stellar fight is being waged for the #1 pick in the draft between my hometown Lions and the Raiders. The winner likely will draft media darling Brady Quinn to "solve" their QB troubles. Does anybody in Quinn's (or anybody's) camp want to go to those teams? I see an Eli Manning situation being pulled off again with whoever "wins" the pick and Quinn if he goes #1. Is it time to radomize the draft order to lessen the likelihood of this occuring? Or is the current method sufficient? I think its time to institiute a lottery system for the worst 5 teams to insure that teams that consistently lose don't always keep getting premium picks. Comments?

Today, I watch my favorite sports shows and observe another story of perhaps the worst NFL team today (even worse than the Lions!) as Raiders coach Art Shell claims that someone within the organization is ratting him and the team out to other league execs. After watching this disaster of a team, replete with an uncaring Randy Moss, an unhappy Jerry Porter, a Bed&Breakfast guy running an outdated O, to name a few, what good is a rat on a sinking ship? There are claims that the Raiders may be the worst team in sports today, but where do they rank among the truely rank? Here's what I think are the tin standard of the four sports I care to watch. Note this is alltime, not just recently.  Send your opinion of who you would put in your pantheon.

NFL: Cincinnati Bengals (1991-2002): The pre-Marvin Lewis and post-Super Bowl era. Plenty of bad picks (Klingler, Carter, Wilkinson) and bad attitudes equals sustained ineptitude.

MLB: Tampa Bay Devil Rays (1998-present): Good arguments can be made for Kansas City, but at least they have won in the past. Only one non last place finish in team history is all you need to know.

NBA: The Braves/Clippers (1976-2006): The true standard of failure, this franchise defined how to screw up a team. The best of the worst: Ron Harper compared playing for them to incarceration.

NHL: New York Rangers (1997-2006): This one was tricky, but I put the Rangers here because they became the Knicks of hockey; they spent tremendous amount of money to get "premier" talent, only to realize that talent was overated.

I'm welcome to any opinion.

With all due respect to traditionalists, the idea that the Lions and Cowboys are exclusive to Thanksgiving NFL Football is ridiculous. Sure, they've added a third game, but that's at night, after most people have filled up on turkey and all the trimmings and are ready to sleep. It doesn't help that the hot story for the games is "Joey Harrington returns to Detroit". The matchups are abysmal as well; you need only look at the combined records of the four teams (excluding the cable matchup), a sterling 15-25. I live in Detroit, and I believe that there should be a flex rule similar to the one used for Sunday nights that would allow a better matchup in those games. If not that, then rotate the teams every so often so that teams that refuse to win like the Lions don't send fans running for the remotes to change to "It's a Wonderful Life"! Thanks.