The Detroit Lions aren’t fairly useless but. If the unbelievable outcomes of them ending out by profitable their two remaining video games (at Vikings, at Bears) mixed with the Green Bay Packers shedding out (vs. 49ers, at Vikings) occur, the Lions can have managed to sneak their method into the postseason.
But after Sunday’s loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers, Lions followers are bumming fairly arduous. Most perceive the long-shot odds are in all probability not price getting looking forward to, others don’t even wish to see this staff within the postseason given their present low stage of play.
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Regardless, the Lions nonetheless have two video games left to play. It’s a chance for them to develop, compete, and present a way of delight of their work. For Lions followers, nicely, it’s subjective what they will get out of those ultimate two video games.
And with the this week’s recreation inconveniently on Christmas, I wouldn’t be shocked if some followers simply determine to decide out. So as we speak’s Question of the Day is:
Will you be watching Lions vs. Vikings on Christmas?
My reply: Well, clearly I’ve to. But if I wasn’t tethered to the sport by occupation, I’d actually have a tough time deciding whether or not to look at this recreation. For one, I don’t just like the NFL on Christmas, and I boycotted it final yr. I believe it’s pointless greed, seeing as this vacation already had an expert sports activities league attempting to “own” it.
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On a special stage, I believe it inconveniences 1000’s of individuals on this nation’s most beloved holidays. I do know few are going to have sympathy for the gamers who make hundreds of thousands of {dollars} having to play on Christmas when hundreds of thousands of working class individuals need to do the identical. But there are a ton of different individuals concerned within the NFL course of who’re removed from making exuberant wages that now should be compelled to be away from household and family members for…. what? A trio of mid NFL video games that might have introduced simply as a lot enjoyment at 1 p.m. ET on Sunday?
However, I’ll admit that even my ethical objections to this recreation being on Christmas, I at all times definitely would have watched it in any case. No matter how long-shot the percentages are to make the playoffs, if there was something on the road—and even when there wasn’t—I’ve watched primarily each Lions recreation of the previous 25 or so years. I don’t plan to cease now, simply because my 8-7 soccer staff didn’t meet preseason expectations.
What are your ideas on watching the Lions on Christmas? Will you be tuning in, or will the staff’s failures—plus your obligations on the vacation—draw you away from the TV? Share your solutions within the remark part.