We interrupt your regularly scheduled programming to bring you some breaking news: the Detroit Lions suck.

All joking aside I would like to take a brief moment to reflect on my sorry excuse for a football team, the Detroit Lions, who stand on the brink of the first winless season in the NFL since the league expanded to a 16 game schedule in 1978. Yes, I am a Lions fan. No, I am not willing to switch allegiances to the Raiders or the Niners. Yes, I am rooting for an 0-16 season.

It took me a long time to fully embrace 0-16. All the way up to 0-14 I was rooting for a win each week. But the last two weeks something clicked. We are guaranteed to be one of the top 5 worst teams in NFL history regardless of what happens today so we might as well go all in and grab an undisputed #1. I don’t expect to ever get into arguments with Steelers fans, Patriots fans, or Giants fans over the best teams and franchises in NFL history, but I do expect to get into plenty of arguments with Raiders fans, Cardinals fans, and Seahawks fans over the worst.

So here is to the trump card. Here is to embracing the misery. And here is to the Red Wings and the Pistons; thank god for small miracles — I could have grown up in Cleveland.

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