Daily Success: The Detroit Lions Have Won A Competitive Football Game

Charlie Klein

Normally on this blog we like to highlight the particularly humourous failings of the professional sports world, and there are plenty we still have yet to cover. And yet today, instead of writing about how the Redskins failed, I wanted to take some time and give some love to the Detroit Lions for not failing, not today anyway.

Trust me, you are not the only one who is having a hard time remembering when the last time the Detroit Lions won a game. Much has happened in the space of time between December 23, 2007 and September 27, 2009. Mitch Albom's article in the Detroit Free Press provides a Detroit perspective on the historic occasion.

"After 644 losing days, 21 losing months, 18 losing Sundays, one losing Thursday, four starting quarterbacks, one fired coach, one tar-and-feathered team president and a million bad jokes about Detroit futility — after all that, the gun sounded on this last weekend of September, and our long, local nightmare was finally over.

The Lions won a game.

I swear."

Things that have happened since the Lions won their last game:

• The United States has had two Presidents
• Three different teams have won Super Bowls
• Brett Favre retired, unretired, re-retired, then unretired
• The wildcat was invented
• The Arizona Cardinals won a playoff game
• John Madden retired
• Three madden games have been released
• Rod Marinelli got fired
• The Red Wings went to two Stanley Cup Finals
• I completed two years of collegiate education
• Twitter was invented
• The iPhone 3G was invented
• The Detroit Lions have had at least three starting QB's (Kitna, Orlovski, Culpepper)
• Jeff Garcia has played for three teams.
• Mike Holmgren retired
• Terell Owens defended a quarterback
• Michael Vick was released from prison.
• Jim and Pam got together.

There are more but those are all I could come up with off the top of my head. Everyone will remember where they were the day they saw the Detroit Lions beat the Washington Redskins. I was on my dad's couch, celebrating. Detroit Lions, this Bud's for you. Roar Lions Roar, or whatever it is you guys do when you win. Maybe you don't remember the cheer either.