lordstanley

It’s going to be 3rd and 3. Goff took forever.

Loss of Robertson hasn’t helped. But no excuse for 24 points on the defense, 31 total

Glenn has to figure out the halftime adjustments of his life.

Great , Jameson, but get in the frickin’ endzone. Ridiculous reckless hotdogging. Gave the refs time to call an illegal block on some Lions if they had wanted to.

The Lions should still win this game. I’ll breathe into a paper bag for a minute.

Huge possession for the Lions coming up. Remember the Commanders get the ball back after the half.

I never thought that Maclaurin would go 60 yards there.

Laporta, what a catch!!

Yep, only the Lions can stop the Lions offense. They had just gone 71 yards on 6 plays the previous drive followed by 56 yards on 4 plays.

Yep, and it wasn’t even that close. So much so I thought the Commanders had decided to kick since the Lions hadn’t jumped offside.

Yep, what are the chances the Commanders’ run defense would have stopped them on 3rd AND 4th down.

There was no reason to be in the gun with an emoty backfield on 3rd and short.

Nice poke by Vildor. 7-3.

Cool! So I am just going to pretend the Lions took the opening kickoff and went on a 7 1/2 minute drive for a TD.

Uh, I don’t think there is much question.

Frickin’ commercial comes back right near the end of the 3rd down play. Feel better now that the Lions made the stop on 4th down.

4-0 now. Yeah, I’m shifting focus 100% now.

Can’t lose Robertson.

I mentioned here before that I had my 9th birthday party in the lower deck in left on the Fidrych Yankees Monday Night game. The last day of school was the Friday before. Summer was starting. I was going into surgery in a week. All night I was surrounded by friends and family, some no longer with us. We expected a crowd of 20k, it was jam packed with 48k. The cheers on every out. The post-game curtain call, which was a rarity back then. From memory, almost 50 years later, I could write a 5,000 word essay on that night. Easily the most memorable day of my childhood. But ask me to write 500 words about anything I did in 2017 and I’d be stumped without checking emails or a calendar from that year. I’m so silly that whenever I watch a replay of that game I still hold out the faint hope that when the camera pans the crowd I might spot us, somehow having never noticed before. If someone offered me a chance to go back to that day for 6 hours in exchange for $100,000 I’d write a check in a heartbeat.

Chef’s hat Look at what our old bud Ned was up to tonight

Kasper, finally given good linemates, has almost doubled his season point total over the past 4 games. After 2-5-7 in his his 35 games, he is 3-3-6 in the past 4 games.

At least in Canada we don't call this a hat or a beanie or a stocking cap or some other bland term.

You’re not the only one. It’s the single worst development in my hockey viewing experience. Worse than Fox’s glowing puck. Worse than alternate jerseys. Worse than patches on jerseys. Worse than logos on the ice. If there was a choice in watching a game in color with moving ads or in b&w without moving ads, I’d choose the b&w. I mostly hate the moving ads because they’re distracting and interrupt my focus on the puck, but I also hate them because it distorts reality by showing ads geared to my own market when watching games played in an away rink. I’m not seeing the same thing people in the arena are seeing.

Bobby Wagner off the injury report, a full go for Saturday.

Impressive. Wings beat the defending Cup champs, on the road, 5-2. Florida was all over the Wings in the 3rd period 23-5 shots on goal) but Talbot stood tall