ATTENTION: Pat Caputo, Drew Sharp, Eric Pate (who cares), and any other moron who doesn't get it.
I AM PISSED OFF at the way the local media is dismissing the fans and the walkout. They accuse the Fords of being elitists, but they are just as bad. They act as if they have the market cornered on rational behavior.
We are not dumb enough to think that the walkout will have any effect on the Lions. That's not the point...if the media would bother to look into our motives they would understand that the walkout is meant to symbolize to the National sports scene that we aren't a bunch of idiot sheep who accept whatever the Ford family slops onto a football field. For many of us it will be our farewell, and a substantial walkout would be a collective mooning of William Clay Ford. Also, by going home early we are realizing that it is much more important to be with our families than to watch the pathetic Lions play a meaningless football game. Given the product on the field it is obscene that Lions fans end up in the stands on Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve.
And let's get another thing straight, we didn't specifically buy the tickets so that we could walk out in the middle of a football game...we made our mistake back in May when we paid the invoice for season tickets. Many of us won't make that mistake again.
The Detroit Lions are owned by an incompetent individual who has been incompetent his whole life. He wasn’t trusted to participate in the operation of Ford Motor Company, so the rest of the Ford family gave him the Lions to occupy his time. For four decades the incompetent old man has stubbornly made a joke of Detroit’s professional football franchise. He has all the answers and refuses to consult anyone of substance on how to build a successful professional franchise. So where does that leave Detroit’s NFL football fans? It leaves us as the butt of every joke about our team. Don’t listen to the arrogant media! Take a stand on a personal level. Even if you feel like you’re the only one walking out on Sunday you can leave with the knowledge that you know what’s right…and what Ford has done to our football franchise sure ain’t right.
Eric Alessandri
Saturday, December 23, 2006
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4 comments:
You expect something different? They are in the position to be softball cowards. Only the few who have the guts to say anything actually become successful (Jim Rome), others with balls (John Lund) get let go.
They won the last game and now they don't get the first pick in the draft. IDIOTS
The Sporting News Radio you guys did was pretty good. Clear, consise and to the point. This isnt about Millen, it's bigger than that.
The local media can't see past this for some reason. And when they do, they just blame the fans.
That's not a solution.
Local media has no guts. Otherwise they would ask the tough questions when they have Millen or Ford standing in front of them. Killer sounds so tough on WRIF, but then again he isn't in front of any players or Lion's management. Killer should change his name to Kitten
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