Being a fan of Michigan sports, I have been proud to say I'm a fan of Detroit sports teams ...... other than the Lions. The Pistons, Red Wings, and Tigers have all had all of success in the last few years and in their entire histories as well. Our football team, the Lions, are the only sports team that has never had any success to be proud of. Other than Barry Sanders, we have had to nothing to be proud of from our Lions since the '50s!
The Red Wings are possibly the best hockey franchise ever, the Pistons just won their 3rd franchise championship in 2004 and went to the Finals again in 2005 (but lost to the Spurs), and the Tigers just made it to their first World Series since 1984 in 2006 (but lost to the Cardinals). Now they have added Dontrelle Willis and Miguel Cabrera in the offseason making them one next baseball season's early favorites.
Why can't the Lions get their act together and make our major sports teams complete! Can't Ford fire Matt Millen! Or can't he sell them to someone who would actually give a crap! Even one of our college teams, the Michigan Woverines, came back from an embarrassing loss to a Division II team to beat the "mighty" SEC Florida Gators! If the Lions franchise could get it together, I would be completely happy with our all our sports franchises.
Heck, even the WNBA Detroit Shock have won some championships, but yet we are still waiting on the Lions! Does anyone believe the Lions will every come around, thus making our sporst franchises complete? Then we would be able to compete with the Boston sports for the most complete all sports franchises. Don't get upset with me Boston fans; I didn't say we were better or even close. We would be close if the LIONS COULD ACTUALLY WIN!