Oh, ye of little faith. Actually, oh, everyone of little faith. Despite some trash-talking by his former teammates, retired Lions icon Calvin Johnson gave a solid performance on Monday night’s season premiere of ABC’s “Dancing With the Stars.”
Megatron had some promising moves, as anyone who’s seen the NFL wide receiver on the football field should have realized. But Johnson’s introductory segment focused on the pre-show buzz that he might be a mega-disaster on the ballroom floor.
It included a closeup of an online Detroit Free Press sports story headlined: “He’s going to do awful”: Lions surprised Calvin Johnson is on DWTS.