It was over by halftime and when it was over officially, when the Detroit Lions had lost their eighth straight game to start the season last fall, a 44-6 drubbing by Philadelphia, the Lions buried the game tape.
Shovels were involved. Plenty of symbolism, too.
“It was an embarrassing loss,” head coach Dan Campbell said Monday morning from the team’s headquarters. “They let us have it, they rubbed our nose in it, and that’s — listen man, they came in and did what they — everything that they wanted to do they did to us times 10.