| 09 September 2010
When asked about the Lions' ongoing 20 game road losing streak (the last road win was against the Bears in October 2007), Gosder Churlilus decided to grace the world with a guarantee!
"I don't like to make guarantees, but I promise you we'll end the streak," Cherilus said Wednesday.
What guarantee? I know of no guarantee!
What do you mean, "It's on the record?"
Gosder, Gosder, Gosder. If you don't like to...why did you? Why? WHY?
This is wonderful. Just f'n wonderful.
Before I go off on another Lions guarantee, let me answer a question. Will the Lions finally win away from Ford Field this season? Sure, and it might even be this Sunday in Chicago. There's also very winnable road games in Buffalo and Tampa Bay. So a road victory is not out of the realm of possibility...it's even likely!
But why make a damn guarantee? Why? WHY?
If there is one thing any Lions fan knows, guarantees NEVER end well with this franchise. Actually, they tend to go down in infamy. Just ask Jon Kitna and Lomas Brown.
Two of the more recent guarantees made by Lions players, such as Kitna's 2007 "we'll win more than 10 games" (the Lions lost seven of the final eight games, finishing 7-9 and pissing away a sure playoff spot) and Brown's boasting "There is no question in my mind that we're going to win this game" before a 1995 1st round playoff game with the Eagles (the Lions fell behind 51-7, ultimately losing 58-37, a game that was never in doubt), blew up in their faces with all the force of a class 5 hurricane.
Kitna and Brown will never live their guarantees down. Fans may try, but they will never forget them...or let the Lions forget.
Unfortunately, thanks to a Matt Millen drafted, highly overpaid tackle who has never lived up to expectations, and barely beat out an aged Jon Jansen for his roster spot, the predictions keep on coming.
Once again forcing the Lions to keep writing checks their asses can't cash.
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