By Jeff Moss
DetroitSportsRag@GMail.com
March 13, 2015
I didn’t quit on the Detroit Lions when they passed on Randy Moss for undersized cornerback Terry Fair and then drafted a WIDE RECEIVER in the next round.
I didn’t cash in my chips when Barry Sanders retired because he was sick of the incompetence of William Clay Ford, Sr.
I still watched and rooted for this franchise to succeed even after they kept Matt Millen employed for eight miserable seasons.
Hell, even though they sent me to the precipice when they called the cops on me for Tweeting out a cartoon — I suppose they figured they couldn’t get away with beheading me — I still wanted them to beat the Cowboys in the playoffs two months ago.
But I am fucking done. This franchise is dead to me. The behavior of this organization over the last 72 hours is the final straw and I hope they go 0 and 16 in 2015. I hope VP of Communications Bill Keenist chokes to death on a ham sandwich in his office.
If it wasn’t bad enough that the cowardly Lions’ front office — led by Martin Mayhew and Tom Lewand — avoided any questions from the assembled media by slipping out a side door after the Haloti Ngata press conference, what went down on the team’s propaganda website Thursday sealed the deal for me.
“See ya, suckers!!!!”
(And fuck the NFL also. This is a league that compels Marshawn “Fenech Mode” Lynch to speak to reporters after getting physically abused for 180 minutes but doesn’t say boo when Breath Mints and Millen Redux refuse to address questions about the team losing a Hall of Famer in his PRIME to another team.)
Yep, if it was not a complete slap in the face to their mentally abused fanbase to refuse to address the systemic failure that led to a first-ballot Hall of Famer — and the best defensive player the franchise has employed in generations — leaving the team in the prime of his career, what that shilling cunt Tim Twentyman pulled off on Lions.com certainly is and it has sent me over the fucking edge.
Everyone knows how I feel about this piece-of-shit former Detroit News writer who sold his soul to the Ford Family by taking a job as a propagandist for the team.
(A talentless, unethical fuckhead who started writing flowery pieces about the Lions in the News at the EXACT SAME TIME he entered negotiations to be the organization’s Joseph Goebbels, according to members of the ACTUAL Detroit sports media he left behind.)
In an “article” titled, “Explaining Lions’ 2015 Salary Cap Situation”, this carbon-based twatburger absolved Mayhew, Lewand and the rest of the three-ring circus in Allen Park of any culpability in Ndamukong Suh‘s departure.
It would not surprise me if that drunk shitbag Lewand wrote this sympathetic trash himself — in-between shoving entire courses of food down his wife’s gullet.
How bad was this piece? Well, imagine if, during the week his Ponzi scheme was exposed, Bernie Madoff had asked Paul Konisberg to post a blog on Bernard Madoff Investment Securities LLC’s website explaining why Bernie did what he did.
Multiply that by the number 90 and you will have a good idea how offensive this Tim the Size of Twentyman piece of inane puffery should be to any remaining Lions fans.
I am not providing a link to this fucktard’s article because I don’t want to give the team site any hits. I will just post photos of his bojangling and comment where I see fit ……
The restructures served a purpose? In 2012, the team went 4-12!!!! In 2013, the Lions improved to 7-9!!!! And in the year where they completely mortgaged everything for one kick at the can — including trying to motivate Nick Fairley by refusing to pick up his team friendly contract option — they fell short of a Super Bowl victory by a mere FOUR GAMES!!!!!
At no point in this “article” does Twentyman once mention the MAIN REASON they made it impossible to franchise Suh …. The ridiculous contract they handed out to mediocre quarterback Matt Stafford two years before they had to. That’s a convenient piece of information to leave out of an article explaining why the team just lost Suh.
And now, Ricky Roma’s sentiments on Twentyman …..
Back to this abortion of a column ……
No, you asshat, those signings were a necessity because Mayhew failed MISERABLY at drafting. If Jahvid Best and Mikel Leshoure hadn’t been draft busts there wouldn’t have been a need to add Reggie Bush — who wasn’t that good, either. 1,000-yard rusher? Fuck out of here with that shit.
Can you imagine justifying the loss of Suh because you idiotically kept restructuring his contract when you have NO team success to show for it, while failing to mention either the Stafford albatross or Mayhew’s horrific drafts of 2010 and 2011?
Well, yes you can because Martha Ford signs Twentyman’s checks!!!!
Ummm, Mr. Roma? ……
But it gets better …..
Handicapped? Handicapped?!???!??? Because of their ineptitude on the field, the Lions were able to draft TWO first-ballot Hall of Famers with the #2 pick in the draft!!!!! Yes, they were expensive because of the old CBA — that EVERYONE was working under — but that is a small price to pay for the best DT in the league and an all-time top five wide receiver!!!!!
Being gifted #81 and #90 is like having to solve the final Wheel of Fortune puzzle, being given the R, S, T, L, N and E and not being able to solve the word “Nestle.”
Who told you to draft Titus Young, Amari Spievey, Ryan Broyles, Best, Leshoure and other BUSTS?!?!?!?!?!?
Once again, Suh and Johnson had PROVEN that they were transcendent talents who were deserving of the money. Stafford STILL has not.
I am so sick of hearing about the “burden” the Lions were under because Suh and CalJo were expensive. That’s like being lucky enough to date Margot Robbie, only to bitch about her liking expensive dinners and fancy couture.
Well, no fucking shit.
I’d rather have that and pay through the nose for it than start a lousy seventh-round pick from Ferris State who SUCKS ….
I mean, it was bad enough to lose Suh in the prime of his career for absolutely nothing when it could have been easily avoided, but this justification by the team’s Czar of Misinformation — in conjunction with Lewand and Mayhew HIDING from Dave Birkett, Kyle Meinke, Josh Katzenstein and Michael Rothstein — is beyond the pale.
It’s an affront to you as a fan of this team. They are giving you a Cleveland Steamer, for Christ’s sake. Have some dignity and rebel against this insanity.
All of this is enough to drive a person to drink. Right, Tom? …
RT @ttwentyman: Lion ink young ascending DT Tyrunn Walker to a one-year deal. http://t.co/8q6AXCX3pB pic.twitter.com/IhhQ55ndEY
— Jeff Moss (@JeffMossDSR) March 13, 2015
They have pushed me too far this time. I want them to go 0 and 16 (again) next season. I only desire awful things for these people. It is utterly depressing that these morons in charge of running a public trust in my hometown have pissed me off so badly that I can no longer root for them.
They are the worst organization in professional sports. They have no respect for us. They treat us like peasants who will just take their crap and continue to patronize their lousy product.
Well, I am done. And if you think I am going too far by fat shaming Lewand’s wife or by repeatedly posting videos of his DUI arrest, I don’t give a fuck.
I don’t know what else to do at this point. My frustration has boiled over. This 40-year period of being belittled and taken for granted is over and I will resist by any means necessary.
And while my protests are probably the equivalent of Palestinian kids throwing rocks at Israeli forces, it’s all I can do at this point.
Until Keenist, Mayhew, Twentyman and Lewand are all broomed out of Allen Park I am going to root for more misery and losses.
And, for once in my life, I will finally get what I desire from this pathetic franchise because losing is the ONLY thing they do well.
Fuck them.