Detroit Lions Well on Their Way to 0-32

By Joshua Lobdell

I want everyone who reads this to think about what is the equivalent of going winless in a NFL season in their own profession. I want everyone out there to ponder that for a moment; and after everyone has an answer to what the equivalent of 0-16 is for their job, if such a disappointing embarrassing feat were reached, would everyone still be gainfully employed?

I am guessing for most of us that the answer is no. If we committed such a heinous act, like the one the Detroit Lions just finished, we would be expecting a pink slip.

Apparently all of us need to go work for the Detroit Lions. Failure is not only expected -- it is rewarded. After choking away an entire season the Lions promoted one Martin Mayhew from Assistant General Manager, to General Manager.

How could this happen?

At the very best Mayhew was the assistant architect of a team that failed to win one single game. Who knows what the very worst is? Only in Detroit, one a team owned by William Clay Ford could this actually happen.

Even the woeful Detroit Tiger team of the mid to late 1990's, people lost their jobs when the team failed to win. I don't understand how anyone associated with a 0-16 record could keep their job, much less get promoted.

Especially when we consider this is the very first day of what it bound to be a long off-season.Regardless of who is and who is not available or interested, the owner of the Detroit Lions owed his fans a detailed search. Instead he promoted from within, even though what was within is tainted. The team has not only been plagued by faulty management, but also burned by a 0-16 record that should hang off Mayhew's neck like a scarlet A.

The Detroit Lions proved today that they care nothing about their record, nothing about winning, and really don't care about their fans.

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