As I left the Taste of the Lions on Thursday night, one fan asked if I’d attended the event in the past.
Then, after I told him I had, he asked, “Where were all the stars?”
I said I had actually been thinking something similar as I walked the concourse at Ford Field, but I mentioned that some of the top players — Matthew Stafford, Golden Tate and Ziggy Ansah — were in the VIP section.
“Yeah, I still thought I’d see more stars,” the man said.
This story — and not the woman who asked me “is that (Ndamukong) Suh” while pointing at Rob Sims — provided yet another reminder of why few people, if anyone, will be picking the Lions to be contenders in 2016.