Something for Lions’ fans to cheer about

Hold on… the Lions might win this ball game!

This is what was going through my head on Thanksgiving day. While smells of the cooking turkey wafted towards the living room, most Lions fans, like myself, gathered around the television with apprehension.

Leaning on the edge of my couch, turning up the volume and waiting for the start of the second half. It seemed that for once the state of Michigan had something to cheer about as the Eagles fell 45-14. The Lions have turned their image around.

Yes, the Lions have played horribly in recent years. But they recently broke their losing streak in 2013, before that they had lost 10 straight games and had no chance of victory in sight.

With a wholesale of the front office, I think the Lions are now gaining the personnel and staff in-order to make a run in the next few years.

The new offensive coordinator, Jim Bob Cooter, is the man Lions fans have been waiting for. Coming from the Denver Bronco’s coaching staff, he brings experience as he enters his seventh year as an NFL coach. Cooter is willing to establish an offensive presence on the field that I believe will allow the Lions to make a run at a championship and finish the season strong.

This team isn’t bad, in no way shape or form. They’ve just been lacking the puzzle piece to bond the struggling stafford and his offensive threats. Whenever a quarterback with Stafford’s potential has no lethal threats on the field, a team struggles.  But Cooter has a gameplan to get the struggling quarterback on track. His name? Megatron. Calvin Johnson is the missing puzzle piece in this Lions offense. He is producing the explosive plays fans want and being the most  reliable receiver in Stafford’s arsenal.

Since the beginning of football it’s been a tradition for the lions and several other teams to play on Thanksgiving.

However, it hasn’t been a tradition for them to win on Thanksgiving.

Across the state of Michigan this is a common theme, turkeys and football. Families coming together and betting on how bad the Lions will lose. But this year was a different story, and now the Lions on a winning high with their most recent accomplishment of defeating the Eagles and before that a victory over the Green Bay Packers, first time they’ve won at Lambeau Field since 1991. So for all the Lions fans out there, times are changing. There is now something to cheer about when sitting down on Sunday afternoon.