tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580115438716980446.post6330584761664411906..comments2024-03-22T03:17:47.335-04:00Comments on Armchair Linebacker - a New Writing blog: Burn Them AllRaven Mackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00777849609532782535noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580115438716980446.post-82184997669921985522011-12-11T04:07:47.935-05:002011-12-11T04:07:47.935-05:00I bet Gunther has plans to keep Allen in check... ...I bet Gunther has plans to keep Allen in check... would like to see him double teamed all day and on the ground crying like a little bitch - going to be sweet! Nice ink :) PeaceEricFromKentuckyhttp://www.myspace.com/free_from_babylonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580115438716980446.post-8903027464390898212011-12-10T16:15:49.705-05:002011-12-10T16:15:49.705-05:00Exactly. If they haven't gotten it by now, the...Exactly. If they haven't gotten it by now, then . . .Neilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16300561079216508635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580115438716980446.post-46810851184345156752011-12-10T03:55:40.969-05:002011-12-10T03:55:40.969-05:00this is the one they show they've grown up. Ob...this is the one they show they've grown up. Obviously, no more stupid football or they are done for 2011.<br /><br />Lions 31, Vikings 17.<br /><br />Lord AnonymousAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580115438716980446.post-8776556926455402672011-12-10T00:21:05.451-05:002011-12-10T00:21:05.451-05:00Thanks, man. Saw that you retweeted it. Appreciate...Thanks, man. Saw that you retweeted it. Appreciate it.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07438365327432474582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580115438716980446.post-17097653746791180272011-12-09T16:12:47.614-05:002011-12-09T16:12:47.614-05:00Hell yeah, Jeremy.
Also, I meant to tell you, but...Hell yeah, Jeremy.<br /><br />Also, I meant to tell you, but I dug your piece on Howard Hughes & the Lions.Neilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16300561079216508635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580115438716980446.post-19497966202618544032011-12-09T16:11:17.155-05:002011-12-09T16:11:17.155-05:00I'm happy you're happy, CJ. I just felt li...I'm happy you're happy, CJ. I just felt like this all needed to be said.Neilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16300561079216508635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580115438716980446.post-61129662949164143022011-12-09T11:05:36.074-05:002011-12-09T11:05:36.074-05:00Sometimes I hate this league. It makes me angwy. S...Sometimes I hate this league. It makes me angwy. Sometimes I just want to burn it down. Burn the whole league to the gwound.<br /><br />http://youtu.be/e-M4WXov2lM<br /><br />This is one of those weeks. No mercy. Go Lions.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07438365327432474582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580115438716980446.post-27271142068101039752011-12-09T10:02:40.673-05:002011-12-09T10:02:40.673-05:00THANK YOU.
I think this is my all-time favorite p...THANK YOU.<br /><br />I think this is my all-time favorite post in terms of...well, making me happy. I was going to find some way to dress that up as 'measuring the emotional zeitgeist of the fanbase' or something, but the fact is I've been feeling icky and irritated and alone, and now I feel better. So thank you for that from the depths of my heart.<br /><br />The worst part to me has been how much a lot of it has been internalized by the fanbase. The world will always be there to mock and chastise and troll us, and I hate to see us buying in.I love Barry Sanders even more than I already did (if possible), for his smiling refusal to comply with the trolling questions on 'winning the right way' and touchdown celebrations and the like. Can we Be Like Barry in that way, please? I get that there are serious reasons to be concerned, but let's at least write our own story rather than let Dick Stockton et al do it.<br /><br />I guess it hit me when I read Jared Allen's interview, and started laughing. I'll take the blatant smack talk (or as Stafford put it "Jared Allen being Jared Allen") over concerned punditry, smug moralising and their ilk which is what we've been force fed over not only the last few weeks but the entire season. At least, we're allowed to get mad at Jared Allen without it being further evidence of our moral decay.<br /><br />For being 'evil', I still have no reason to hate any dude on our team. It's ridiculous. I had a Steelers fan try to chide-comfort me over the team's 'lack of character and morals' and when STEELERS fans of all people think they can play that card, the world has gotten very very twisted. Smug paternalism can gtfo, tyvm.<br /><br />Anyways, great post. I'll be a million miles from anywhere for the next two games, but really look forward to reading your take on them (and hoping for 2 more wins and an intact Stafford when I get back). Awesome, awesome post. <br /><br />I'm figuring the odds of a shark swimming up to me and telling me that we need to fire Jim Schwartz is pretty low (and I am so, so thankful for that), so this really was the perfect thing to have as the last Lions thing I read for a while. Thanks!CJnoreply@blogger.com