Drew Sharp of the Detroit Free Press has written what we can only back up here at OSG HQ with one of the biggest "Attaboys..." of the year...
He went off on William Clay Ford ((pictured, thanks Rashaun Rucker/Detroit Free Press)), the owner of the Detroit Lions, as the race for 0-16 comes to Sharp's hopeful conclusion Sunday against the Green Bay Packers.
A sample of his magical work...
"Ford fosters an organizational culture choked by its own rampant paranoia, chronically preoccupied with the steady stream of criticism written and said about it. He once tossed around quarters like manhole covers. But he pays his minions well now and they stay fiercely loyal, adamantly defending what those on the outside see as Ford's aristocratic aloofness.
But it's indefensible now. I'm tired of the nice-old-man-deserves-a-break argument. Ford doesn't deserve a championship simply because he's been around much longer than most of his NFL ownership fraternal brothers. He's directly responsible for one of the worst eight-year stretches in professional sports history.
If you assessed the public mood eight months ago on the greater impossibility -- the country shedding its shackles of racial intolerance and electing America's first black president, or an NFL team going winless through a 16-game parity-driven schedule, the concept of perfect football imperfection would've comfortably won the argument.
The Lions have one-upped Barack Obama."
All we ask is that the honolulu blue and silver go out and "hunker down you guys, just one more time..."
That would, indeed, be perfect...
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