I’m a Tigers fan but not a Lions fan. At first I wanted to see the Lions go 0-16 for the historic nature of it. Its not my team so I won’t feel the pain associated with it. It’s be the perfect capper on the Matt Millen era.

Now, however, I’ll be rooting hard for the Lions to get the W today. I think back on the 2003 Tigers team and how mortifying it was to watch them. I had MLB Extra Innings that year. I tried to watch them, but I was busy and they were awful so I probably only saw parts of maybe 80 games. I didn’t watch a single game from start to finish that year that the Tigers won. I caught bits and pieces of wins, but every time I sat down and watched a game all the way through, they lost.

So like I said, I remember what it was like to root for a historically bad baseball team and how overjoyed I was that they managed to avoid the most losses in baseball history. I was used to them being bad, but being a historic laughingstock is something else.

Come to think of it though, I wear that 2003 season as a badge of honor these days, and it made 2006 so much sweeter. So either way, some good can come from it. Hey, they can’t be as bad next year right?

I turned in my Lions’ fan card about a two years ago. I’m no longer a registered fan, if that were to exist. I just don’t want to put up with the mental anguish that comes of seeing “your” team lose incessantly.

On a lighter note, maybe Obama can appoint a “football czar” along with the “car czar” he may appoint to oversee the bailout given to the Detroit automakers. Since William Clay Ford owns the Lions as well as Ford, I’d argue it’s entirely within the government’s authority to appoint someone to help the Lions restructure. I’d have to nominate Tagliabue for the job of football “czar”…