Lions beat the Cardinals! I can't tell you the score though, I left my seat early in a quest to find a Shaun Rogers jersey... No luck!? The defense definitely is forgotten among the gridiron hero's. What a turn I've taken this year. I was a huge pollyanna fan from when we first got our season tickets back in the Silverdome days.

This year has been so bad, I've finally lost my enthusiasm. Penalties, interceptions, missed scoring opportunities - hah, I wasn't let down this time. I was now of those smug spectators that just sat in my seat the whole game, with a grin on my face thinking 'So what else is new?'. Well, they did win at home and THAT is new & normally I'd be screaming 'Lion's Rule' or some other phrase with all the other die-hard raucous fans.

But I wasn't impressed with the win, even though winning this game kept them alive for the playoffs. It was the Arizona Cardinals afterall with rookies playing the major positions. We should have creamed them... Another bright spot was that Joey Harrington looked like he actually TRIED to get a first down running!! Talk about excitement.

Perhaps because of the lackadaisical demeanor of the Lions as a whole, it has made me more attuned to what is going on in the stands around me. And I've decided it would be a good thing to record them for posterity. Notably:

• The donut won AGAIN!! Woohoo, free donuts for everyone in the lower bowl. Coffee had the lead but had a caffeine heart attack or something right before the finish line.

• Roary (Lions mascot)- I want a t-shirt!! Forget about the 'Family Fun Zone' shoot the t-shirt gun at section 140 for once!

• But Roary was kind enough to come stand on a chair near us and try to get the crowd riled up. I think more fans were excited to see him then the play of the Lions.

• There was a heavier lady sitting a few rows down that got up to boogie to some 80's flashback song and fell on the guy behind her and then on her butt! Heh, it was funny.

• The guy that sits behind me apologized for his friends behavior the week before at the Indy game.

• My niece got into an argument with the season ticket holder next to us over Jason Hanson. C'mon now, you can't be ripping on Jason he's one of our leading scorers!! Don't worry Jason, Stefani had your back!

• Why aren't there any Shaun Rogers Jerseys??!!

• The concessions stand was once again out of dehydrated/rehydrated, gooey, nasty, yet somehow tasty onion sauce for our hotdogs - AGAIN. We decided that next game we'll have to grab some as soon as we walk in and save it for later.

• We didn't make it on the Jumbotron (or whatever it's called) - AGAIN.

• The 'First Down' dude SUCKS. He must be drunk to be able to do that every week with a straight face. I mean does he really thinks he looks cool? I think he must because when I was watching him do his little arm chopping spiel on the sideline and he noticed that the camera man wasn't broadcasting it, he looked hurt.

• 'First Down Dude' also sings the Lions 'fight' song. You know the one...'Forward down the field, a Lions team that will not yield (snicker, snicker)... the best thing about his singing is the group of fans that sit behind him and act like dorks in the background while he singing. I must add that I liked our old singer better.

Back to the Lions. You know how some mothers in the wild eat their young? Well that's what the Lions fans do to our quarterbacks! Kramer, Ware, Mitchell (he deserved it), Batch, McMahon and now Harrington. We have had a quarterback controversy for as long as I can remember, and due to the radio stations, sports writers and fans it seems like we have a new freaking quarterback every couple of years. Joey's (or JoMo, as some fans affectionately call him) head is now on the platter.

I admit I don't like the 'prima-donna' type quarterbacks. Give me Brett Favre or Daunte Culpepper or someone that would be comfortable playing linebacker as a quarterback anyday over our Joey. I have come to the conclusion that THAT is the real issue here in DEE-Troit, where the natives get upset when our title of 'murder capital of the world' is taken from us. We LIKE our 'bad' reputation as maligned as it may be. We like to be the 'bad asses', especially with our sports teams. Who can ever forget the Bad Boys in the Piston years, Rodman & Laimbeer or Gibby & Rozema with the Tigers or Probert, McCarty and Vladdy with the Wings?

Much can be forgiven if our QB is a bad ass too. That is what McMahon has that Harrington does not. The intangible. The anticipation. The excitement. If you beat us, well at least our QB took out your linebacker! Hah! A good example of that was today after Jason Hanson kicked. The ball was returned and it looked like it was going to be returned for a touchdown.

It was the runner against our kicker. Our little Jason Hanson, the only thing in the way of a sure touchdown for the Cardinals. I must say it is an embarrassment to be taken down by the kicker because it happens so rarely. Hanson has done it on more than one occasion! Hanson dropped him, he also received a standing ovation afterwards and he is beloved by the fans. Well, except for the one sitting by my Stefani.

We LOVE our Bad Boys, unfortunately the Lions have never had one... No Romanowski, no Turley, No Sapp, but we do have Shaun Rogers and I WANT his jersey dammit!