Back in February, Chris Spielman, the Detroit Lions’ special assistant to owner Sheila Ford Hamp and team president Rod Wood, jumped on local sports talk radio station 97.1 The Ticket, and said something that created days worth of Lions chatter. Spielman noted how impressed he was with Ford Hamp’s involvement in team operations, including sitting in on free agency meetings.
That caused many to have a conversation that Lions fans weren’t used to having: Is the owner too involved with the team? Why is Ford Hamp in on free agency meetings? Is she being too meddling in a new regime?