If you've read this blog for any amount of time, you know I've been a fan of the Detroit Lions for seemingly eons. It's been decades, actually. It's definitely longer than I'd care to admit, as you'd think I was insane, self-destructive, or more likely, both.

Add it up, and I been pulling my hair out over the play of the Lions for close to 40 years.  Give or take a year for conniption fits where I wanted to do anything but root for the team that had become the bane of my very existence.  Yet I kept coming back for more.

Insanely self-destructive, indeed.

This my way of saying I think I've seen it all when it comes to Lions' ineptitude.

Wait a sec. I think? No, I know.

Lions fans are all aflutter/atwitter/asomething this past week over Matthew Stafford tossing 5 picks against the Seahawks. Which I have to ask, "Guys! Chill. What's the big deal?"

Stafford's 5 are nothing compared to Ty Detmer's 7 in one game! It got to the point in Detmer's horrific performance where I was rooting for BYU's not-so-finest to throw another pass up for grabs in the hope of seeing more comedic hi-jinks, and just how high (or more correctly, low) he could set Marty Mornhinweg's silly bar.

To think I wanted "Ty by the bye". Be careful what you wish for, folks...

I'm not going to get uptight over a bum kneed rookie, with all of 6 games under his career belt with one of the worst teams in the NFL, throwing 5 interceptions. Stafford's nightmare scenario came about in a nothing game against a nothing team in what's going to be a nothing season.

If you wanted a real reason to become totally bent out of shape, and ragingly loony (in other words, turn into your typical Mlive commenter), the immortal (in his own SEC lovin' mind) Gary Danielson threw 5 picks in a playoff game. Let me repeat. A PLAYOFF GAME.

"Yeah, You heard me. I want 10K on the Niners!"

If Danielson played even remotely close to average, or only threw, let's say, 3 picks, the Lions end up in the NFC championship game, changing NFL history...and possibly the future of the then up and coming 49ers. Instead, it was the beginning of the end for Monte Clark, and ruined the rest of the year.

Danielson had to have his ugly game on New Year's Eve 1983. Stafford's 5 picks didn't ruin an entire HOLIDAY for the Detroit fan base. Danielson's 5 picks caused me to...well, I'll only say I got rip roaring, rip snorting, rip everything, drunk. (I would have regardless, but it was one Hell of an excuse!)

Now we’re really talking a quarterback performance, by a veteran, no less, worth getting all asomethinged about!  It’s not worth losing sleep over what we witnessed last Sunday.

I knew going into the season Stafford was going to have problems being a competent NFL quarterback. NFL rookie quarterbacks are going to have learning pains...and 5 interceptions is Hella painful, but Stafford will learn from it. He better learn from it.

So I refuse to get worked up regarding what was (hopefully, oh my God, hopefully) a one game aberration. An outlier. A statistical fluke. A perfect storm of bad.

A typical performance by a Detroit Lions quart...no, no, no! I'm not going there.

Not yet, anyway.

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