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THIS IS A REPLY TO ROBERT LITTAL'S ARTICLE WHY NOT TO PICK STAFFORD. CLICK HERE.

With all due respect to our glorious founder , the Lions would be idiots NOT to draft Matthew Stafford #1. While there is no way to know for sure if a Quarterback will be a superstar or a bust, there is plenty of evidence that the Lions will be a bust until they get a quarterback. When your quarterback roster includes Drew (why didn't Parcells love me?) Henson, Daunte (everything is different without Randy) Culpepper and Drew (I don't deserve a clever aside) Stanton as your QB rotation you have definite need of improvement.

I am no Mel Kiper Jr, but I did stay at a Motel 6 last night (all this talk about escorts had me curious, so yeah Asian/Filipino mix for the full story follow me on Twitter http://www.twitter.com/BlkSportsOnline) and if there is one thing that I know is there is no sure fire way to know if a Quarterback is going to be a Superstar or a bust in the NFL.

Imagine being a fan of what, by record, is the worst football team ever to take the field for a season in the NFL. Most people would run and hide, bury their heads in the sand in shame.

Meet "Dan." He decided to pay homage to the team by tattooing the Lion logo, along with an "0-16, 2008" below it on his right pectoral.

While most of you will laugh and make fun of him for what he did, I applaud him for sticking with his team, even though they went down in flames.

From WJBK in Detroit...

Two weeks ago, you may remember Detroit News reporter Rob Parker asking the then-Lions head coach Rod Marinelli whether he wished his daughter had married a better defensive coordinator (The 2008 Lion defensive coordinator is Joe Barry, Marinelli's son-in-law). This wasn't the first stunt Parker pulled, but it may just be his last...at least, as a reporter for the Detroit News.

More after the jump...

It's easy to recognize and commend the good but what about the bad and just plain ugly. From brawls to scantily clad nannies and sex scandals to tearful confessions and cons, there were some oh so forgettable 2008 sports moments that made your skin crawl and scream out random things that border idiotic, like Sarah Palin

WORST 8 SPORTS MOMENTS OF 2008

8.) WNBA Shock Sparks Brawl

Not to be outdone by their male counterparts,the Detroit Shock and Los Angeles Spark ensued the first ever cat fight in WNBA during a game at the Palace on July 23rd that left WNBA fans enraged, male viewers cheering and two players suspended. Already a heated rivalry between the two squads, the ongoing tension that night from an earlier play involving LA Sparks franchise player and media darling, Candice Parker and veteran forward, Cheryl Ford, fueled the fight between Parker and Detroit Shock forward, Pienette Pierson who got tangled up tussling for the ball after a missed shot by Pierson. Of course, with teammates coming to each others aid, things got even more ugly after an "accidental" push of Lisa Leslie by Detroit assistant coach, Rick Mahorn resulted in a retaliation from Sparks forward, Delisha Milton-Jones. Detroit's Pierson and Mahorn were suspended for four and two games respectively while Kara Braxton, Tasha Humphrey, Elaine Powell and Sheri Sam (also from Detroit), along with Los Angeles' Leslie, Candace Parker and DeLisha Milton-Jones all got a one game suspension. Although this incident is prime example unsportman-like conduct and is very unladylike, I must admit this "catfight" certainly breathed life into a genre that has very selective few fans.

7.)U.S. Relay Teams Drop The Baton

The Olympics held so many shining moments for the stars and stripes but the embarrassing mishaps of the gold contending (perhaps second to the Jamaican relay team) U.S. men's relay team certainly wasn't one of them. Failing to qualify for the FINALS for the first time since 1988 after a misconnect between Darvis Patton and Tyson Gay on a final pass, left the Americans watching from the sidelines as the Jamaican relay team smoked its competition by a world record setting time of 37.10 seconds. To make matters even worse, the U.S. Women's relay team suffered the same fate and failed to qualify for the finals as for the first time since 1948!

6.)Kimbo Slice Exposed As Farce

Like Mulder from the X-Files we want to believe in the greatest American hero, that wayward underdog, that rises against all odds to realize the American dream. This is especially true in sports, so when word spread like wildfire about back alley brawler putting men down with one punch on Youtube, MMA fans had someone to believe in and the networks had a new poster child to exploit. Kimbo Slice's journey as a street fighter to ESPN cover story was truly nothing but a testament to how the wheels of the capitalist cash machine turn. After losing washed up fighter Ken Shamrock to an eye injury and CBS color commentator, Frank Shamrock (Ken's brother) to disqualification due to a broken arm, the Elite XC finally found a "suitable" replacement in Fort Myers native, Petruzelli, an average mixed martial artist all of 205 lbs and a 2-2 win-loss record since 2004 Kimbo was "sure" to beat. Only the surefire win backfired in a 14 second KO Ryu style! Haduken!
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5.)From America's Sweetheart to Jailbird

Only a short four years ago, track star Marion Jones was America's sweetheart and three time Olympic gold medalist. She was the epitome of the female athlete: charming, strong yet humble gracing the covers of Vogue and Sports Illustrated within in the course of a year. What a difference a year can make, now the biggest athlete to fall victim to Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative scandal, Jones is flat broke and faces jail time after admitting to steroid use before her 2000 Sydney Olympic run up until after the 2004 Athens Olympics. Jones vehemently denied use of any performance drugs for years after she initially fell under suspicion but finally came clean in a well put together confession of lying and cheating that later broke down into a tearful apology worthy of an Oscar.

The title "Laughingstock of the League" has been taken to new lows this past Sunday as the Lions' officially crossed the line into 0-15 territory in their 42-7 loss to the New Orleans Saints, making them the first team to reach utter mediocrity since the 1976 Tampa Bay Buccaneers set the bar at 0-14. With Green Bay left to face is it any wonder that Lions' fans are horsing around in a feeble attempt to keep from crying a river? Hey I'm no bandwagon jumper! I'm the most loyal chic you will ever meet especially when it comes to my sports teams. As a citizen of one of the most die-hard sports towns in the country (Redwings, Tigers, Pistons ring any bells?), no matter how rough and rugged, down and out our franchises have been, we still ride with them to the end. Call it delusional, call it dreams of grandeur, call it whatever the hell you want--to me nothing is worse than a fair-weather member of "Sportsnation."

You know that "fan" that covered from head to toe with his "favorite" teams' sports memorabilia from face paint to fitted cap to jersey, when they're in the playoffs he's the first one gloating, "That's MY team!" However when the losses hit the fan and there's no trophy in sight, nobody knows his teams' name. "Who the (insert previously favorite teams' name here)? Oh, those losers? " You know who you are. Rob Parker, I'm talking to you. Apparently, Mr. Parker, a Detroit News columnist and ESPN First Take analyst, made the joke to end all bad jokes when he asked Lions' coach, Rod Marinelli whether his daughter wished she had married "a better defensive coordinator" during a recent press conference. Talk about open mouth, insert foot! Parker is currently feasting on a ginormous size 15. No, not the Lions' 15 losses but the 15 seconds it took him retract his statement in the guise of it being an attempt to "lighten the mood later in the press conference."

Ok so this pains me as a native Detroiter and Michigander more than anyone could possibly know. Regardless of my nonchalant behavior toward the subject and my many quips about the Lions being on time out with me, I still feel sorry for the winless bums. If having one of the highest unemployment rates, a rapidly sinking automotive industry, a scandalous jailbird ex-mayor, and young people fleeing the city faster than the Israelites exodus from Egypt wasn't enough, we have a sorry excuse of football team totally inept from winning against even the Houston Texans!!! How much can a girl take?

The situation is beyond bleak and unlike the Big Three pleading "Please sir, can I have some more" to the federal government, no amount of goodwill from NFL commissioner Robert Goodell will sway Detroit from the path of 0-16 except a good old fashioned WIN!!! Already 0-10, the Lions are poised to join the ranks of the 1976 Tampa Bay Buccaneers as the only team in NFL history to NOT WIN a regular season game. That's almost as impossible as staying undefeated the whole season, if not more so.

"We're almost paralyzed here," says Tom Wilson, president of the Detroit Pistons before Sunday's loss to the Carolina Panthers added insult to injury. "Everybody is scared in this city. They're 0-9 and, if after Sunday's game they're 0-10, they'll have the entire front page of the newspaper, in a town with the Stanley Cup champions ..."