You have to go back to the beginning here. You have to go back to Dan Campbell’s opening press conference a few years ago when he was named as something of a surprise choice to coach the Detroit Lions.
You have to go back to the beginning here. You have to go back to Dan Campbell’s opening press conference a few years ago when he was named as something of a surprise choice to coach the Detroit Lions.
You remember, right? Because it’s awfully hard to forget.
“This team is going to kick you in the teeth,” he said that day, Jan. 21, 2021, “and when you knock us down, on the way up we’re going to bite a kneecap off. And we’re going to get up, and if you knock us down again, we’re going to get up and bite off the other kneecap.”
He forgot to mention the fact that if you are a Lions fan, and you have been waiting more than 66 years for a savior to drag you out of the football desert, and you bought in to what Campbell was selling, and you invested every ounce of your being in this fun, ferocious and mostly fearless football team …
Well, thanks to him on the biggest day in Detroit’s football history since the Eisenhower Administration …
He was going to bite YOU on the kneecaps.
He was going to kick YOU in the teeth.
He was going to elbow YOU in the stomach.
He was going to stomp YOU in the … well, every other place where you’d prefer to never get kicked, as the Lions’ dreamscape of a season went straight into the wood chipper Sunday at Levi’s Stadium, the 49ers stunning them, 34-31.
