Where was I today?

I tweaked my new install of Windows 7 (liking it so far) on the laptop, went grocery shopping with the GF, picked out my birthday gift (I'm getting a fancy webcam! I'm warning you all now...) and helped clean the gutters on the house. (actually, I held the ladder and picked up the leaves, as I was not allowed to go anywhere near a roof with my bad back).  I stayed far away from the web, newspapers, the radio and TV.

All of this was my way of putting my writing on the back burner, so I wouldn't have to trash the Lions. I sure as Hell wanted to, badly..

Why take a break from all things Lions? I learned a long, long time ago to never, ever post when mad. And was I furious with the Lions and Matthew Stafford.

Could you have blamed me if I broke out the torches and pitchforks?

It took most of the day for me to figure out exactly what I wanted to say about their miserable loss to the very beatable Seahawks.

Which is...

I don't care, as I knew a game this bad was coming from Stafford.

I'm not going to get my righteous indignation on...though I could get God damn high and mighty over the on field ugliness. But is it really worth the effort, when I knew full well going into the season a rookie quarterback would have God awful days like Sunday? Maybe I wasn't expecting 5 picks worth of God awful, but I was expecting our fair share of God awful all the same.

It's going to happen with any NFL rookie. Hell, we've seen it from Brandon Pettigrew, who couldn't catch a pass to save his life in Green Bay. From Louis Delmas several times this season, in taking some utterly stupid taunting calls. We've seen it from Derrick Williams in the exhibition season, after returning kicks all through college, he couldn't catch a cold when attempting to return kicks for the Lions.

We need to remember they're rookies. They are going to be better...next year.

So, no. It's not worth getting all worked up, foam forming at the mouth, spittle flying, while cussing like the (occasionally) drunken Lions fan that I am.

I preached patience when I wrote about the cluster currently going on at the University of Michigan. I'd be a hypocrite if I didn't practice what I preached when it comes to the Detroit Lions.

Thus, I'm giving Stafford a mulligan.

We all deserve a few, why not Stafford? Yes, he's being paid a metric crap ton of cash to lead the Lions to the promised land...a .500 record. But he's also a kid in his 1st NFL season. He's not going to get "it" in his first season. Especially on a team with as many issues as the Lions.

Yes, this could happen...in our dreams.

I'm going to chalk this game up as a learning experience for Stafford, and move on. But he better not do it again.

I can  keep my righteous indignation in check for only so long.

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