The Detroit Lions are a Motor City tradition at the holidays. We all gather around to watch them play in their annual Thanksgiving Day match-up with hopes that they will find a way to save their season. Then at Christmas we start trying to decide who will be our surrogate team for the playoffs since the Lions won’t be participating.
In a way, being a Lions fan is like getting coal in your stocking 365 days a year.
Yet as the Lions current season of disappointment winds down, we do what we always have to do as a sort of self therapy; we look ahead to the draft and free agency with hope.