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Detroit Lions

Nude driving is worth one game suspension


We don’t know why it took this long but the NFL has finally handed down a one game suspension to Lions d-line coach Joe Cullen for “conduct detrimental to the league”. Cullen was arrested twice within a week for drunk driving and “driving on the street without any clothes on. (NUDE).” Police were called when Cullen pulled up to a drive-thru naked behind the wheel. Man, a naked pasty old guy at your drive thru window deserves some sort of hazard pay.

Cullen was also fined $20k by the league which seems a little excessive considering the man is just a position coach and not making millions like the various members of the Cincinnati Bengals who got arrested this year. TO gets a $35k fine for “accidentally” spitting in DeAngelo Hall’s face and Cullen gets $20k for nude driving. This isn’t right. One is degrading and puts a black eye on the league. The other is just plain funny.

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[Detroit Free Press]: NFL suspends, fines Lions assistant Cullen

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LA Lakers

Nov 7 in Sports HIstory: Magic Johnson announces he has HIV


In 1991 Magic Johnson shocked not just the basketball world but the entire nation by announcing that he was HIV-positive and would retire immediately from basketball. (video here) At the time, relatively little was known about HIV and AIDS and it was assumed that Magic would soon be gone. (At his press conference, Larry Bird/Basketball Jesus wept.) However, 15 years later, Magic is alive and well.

Even though he was retired, Magic was voted into the All-Star Game in 1992 and won the All-Star MVP award. Magic’s basketball career continued briefly when he won gold with the 1992 Dream Team.

In 1943 the New York Giants and the Detroit Lions played to a 0-0 tie, the last scoreless tie in NFL history. The Giants were terrible that day, only getting into Lions territory once and finishing with three passing yards. The Lions on the other ahnd managed to get into field goal range three times but Augie Lio missed from 32,50 and 25. Now if only the Raiders could play the Raiders on Monday night, we’d have our first scoreless tie in 63 years.

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Detroit Lions

What happens when Fire_____.com is obsolete?


Today, we stumbled upon FireMillen.com and their attempt to organize a “Baltimore Orioles-esque walkout” for the Bills game. Personally, we think the Bills game (10/15) is way too soon and way too low profile for a protest. We suggest they go with their other idea and stage a protest for the Thanksgiving Day game. Sure the matchup of Lions-Dolphins is going to send more people to sleep than the trytophan in the turkey but at least it’s a national game.

FireMillen.com is also suggesting that people wear any color to the games other than the Lions blue. However, if you don’t tell people what color to wear, you end up with a mishmash of colors in the stands and it just looks like a normal apathetic fan base (you know, like Falcons games) instead of a protest of the pathetic job that Matt Millen is doing with the franchise. This brings us to the fans of opposing teams in the NFC North. Shouldn’t they band together and make sure Matt Millen doesn’t get fired? When you can count on an exec to produce two easy wins for your team a year, you want to make sure he’s there for a long time. (It’s the same reason NFC East fans love Daniel Snyder.)

Finally, we have to wonder what becomes of websites like FireMillen.com when Matt Millen eventually gets fired. (Because if he isn’t fired soon, you know he’s got photos of William Clay Ford doing something illegal to Roary the mascot. ) It seems you would have to wait around for someone foolish enough to hire him. If someone else hires Matt Millen, we’ll lose all faith in billionaire owners but there’s still hope for the owner of FireDustyBaker.com

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Baltimore Ravens

Sep 14 in Sports History: Jamal Lewis predicts record


In 2003: Jamal Lewis of the Baltimore Ravens broke the single-game NFL rushing record with 295 yards in a 33-13 win against the Cleveland Browns. Lewis carried 30 times for a ridiculous average of 9.8 yards per carry and scored on touchdown runs of 82 (on the second play from scrimmage) and 63 yards. Another 60-yard TD run was nullified by a holding penalty. Lewis went on to rush for 2,066 yards in the 2003 season, second most all-time behind Eric Dickerson. Lewis’s performance in Baltimore surpassed Corey Dillon’s 278 yard effort in 2000. Most impressive though was that Jamal Lewis predicted his record setting day during the week leading up to the game.

In 1994: Although it was a foregone conclusion to many, baseball owners voted 26-2 in favor of officially cancelling the remainder of the season as a result of the then month-old players strike. It was the first time since 1903 that there would be no World Series. The strike did not end until the following April. (baseballlibrary.com)

In 1930: The Detroit Lions franchise played their first NFL game (as the Portsmouth Spartans). They defeated the Newark Tornados 13-6. Although they started 3-0-1, they would finish their first season 5-6-3. They officially became the Lions in 1934, when they also began the tradition of playing on Thanksgiving Day in Detroit. The Lions have an all-time record of 485-542-32 (with a 21-60 record under the Matt Millen regime). (Courtesy of the ESPN Pro Football Encyclopedia)

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Lions coach charged with nude driving


These days, a coach getting arrested for drinking and driving is pretty commonplace. They should just start putting it at the bottom of boxscores. But Lions assistant coach Joe Cullen decided to raise the bar a little and got arrested on August 24 for “driving on the street without any clothese on. (NUDE).” Thank god the police officer clarified that one for us. Curiously, there was no citation for being drunk, just nude.

A week later, Cullen was arrested for DUI with a BAC of .12. Now, a .12 is just a regular night out for some folks and hardly drunk enough to go around driving naked so it’s possible Cullen was at Eddie Sutton levels of drunkeness when he was driving naked. But since the police officer didn’t charge him with drunk driving for that incident, we have to wonder if whether Cullen just likes driving in the nude, which is more offensive to us than a .12 BAC.

It seems Joe Cullen has a bit of an alcohol problem as he was arrested for public drunkeness in a restaurant in Mississippi in 2005 and was fired from Ole Miss.

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[Detroit Free Press]: Lions assistant coach arrested for nude, drunken driving
[Detroit Lions Site]: No mention of Nude Driving as a hobby