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3 Day Minicamp, Tigers Vs. Lions

There have been two recent Detroit Free Press articles that have caught my attention and I believe are worthy of comment. In a today’s paper,
Nicholas Cotsonika discusses the minicamp which begins today and will be open to the media. In lieu of the recent grievance filed by players on the team against the Lions, this minicamp will obviously be heavily scrutinized. I look forward to reading accounts of the three day camp and wonder if the recent grievance will have any lingering effects on how this camp is organized and ran.

Also of interest, as mentioned by Cotsonika, will be team offensive coordinator, Mike Martz. Martz, who has made no comments to the local media but did have a brief recent Sports Illustrated interview, remains an unpredictable wild card who will garner continued fascination with his eccentric, “outside of the box” persona. Hopefully, amidst all of this it will be apparent that the team is responding to and making improvements because of Martz’s guidance.

Drew Sharp recently speculated whether or not a prolonged run of success by the Tigers could possibly turn once passionately angry Lion’s fans into a more apathetic and disengaged bunch. On some levels I agree, that most fans will follow the Tigers if they continue to remain in the playoff race as the Lion season approaches.

Yet, I think that Sharp is ignoring the fact that those same fans generally flock towards the other successful local teams and don’t pay much attention when the team is in the dumps (like the past 15 years of the Tigers, for example). I also believe that the Lion’s and their fans have a distinct and unique inseparable relationship, along the lines of say, the movie “Fatal Attraction”. I believe that as much as many of us would like to be able to avert our gaze from the horrific car wreck that has been recent Lion’s seasons, many of us are completely unable to. I am a huge Tiger’s fan and my hope of hopes is that by some near miraculous turn of events that both teams could be engaged in synchronous meaningful and exciting games. That would be a rare feat.