NBC Blog: Lions Fans Set To Roar Disapproval if Stafford selected

[WoodysGirl]

Posted by Tom Curran: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 10:17 AM

At the public unveiling of the team's new logo Monday, Lions fans chanted for Detroit's brass to take Wake Forest linebacker Aaron Curry with the first overall pick.

And they chanted for the team to not draft Georgia quarterback Matthew Stafford.

This is probably a tribute to how hardened Lions fans are to their team selecting in the top 10. And screwing it up. Seriously, don't most fans reflexively prefer their team draft a glamour position? Even if the team remains horrible, watching the development of a player at the most pressure-packed position in sports is fascinating.

There's no way to gauge whether the people who were in Dunham's Sporting Goods in Madison Heights, Michigan Monday share a brain with those Lions fans who will travel to Radio City Music Hall on Saturday (people who, I might add, deserve either free tickets to a Lions game of their choice or intervention). But if Stafford's the choice, prepare yourselves for one of those endlessly entertaining awkward draft moments.

 

[irvin4evs]

Curry at #1? Morons.

I'm down with the play-chicken scenario and taking whoever winds up @ #3 if I'm them.

 

[ologan]

....And the "Bobby Lane Curse" will last another 50 years!

 

[Future]

Why wouldn't they want Stafford? They must be happy with Culpepper? :laugh2:

 

[Rampage]

....And the "Bobby Lane Curse" will last another 50 years!

:laugh1: thanks for bringing that up. I never heard of the Bobby Layne curse.

here is a link about it for anybodyelse that wants to know.
http://www.curseofbobbylayne.com/

 

[Monster Heel]

An inside linebacker with the #1 pick has to be the dumbest idea ever conceived. You're gonna pay this guy 35 million dollars. What can he possibly do to justify that?

 

[jswalker1981]

They need to take Stafford to be the new face of that franchise, like when Atlanta took Ryan. Get an OT at 20, and then work on defense. This draft isn't suppose to get them over the top this year, it is suppose to be a building block for the next couple of years.

 

[TellerMorrow34]

Wow...they'd rather give Curry #1 money then get a potential franchise QB at #1?

 

[SDogo]

I heard they invited all the fans that bought tickets to the last home game and every last one of the 300 or so showed up.

 

[big dog cowboy]

Lions Fans Set To Roar Disapproval if Stafford selected

Meh. It's just the Lions.