The Detroit Lions Win Playoff Games Now?

It was a madhouse, Ford Field. A haven in the bitter cold where 67,000 supporters could publicly cast out demons in unison after 30 years, 65 years, or however long they’d personally suffered from the Detroit Lions’ affliction. For countless millions of people watching at home, they served as avatars. In snow-covered homes, three or four generations came together to witness what they had given up on.

When the beloved prodigal son came home, he was met with fierce opposition rather than welcoming him back. The situation could not have been scripted any better by the greatest authors. It could not have come at a more ideal time: a thrilling one-point victory that allowed them to only have to wait one week between playoff victories after 32 years of waiting.

The future is important to Lions supporters, but more importantly, the terrible past has been put behind them. We can move on and feel like legitimate members of the most prestigious and profitable institution in American sports. Right now, Dan Campbell and his genuinely endearing group of overachievers are having fun with house money while playing football, which has the potential to escalate this whole bizarre experience even farther into lucid dreaming.

Better columns on this will appear today, but for now, I just want to state the obvious and the truth. Similar to Michael Scott, I currently have a very full heart. And it’s nearly impossible to fathom that it could become any fuller. Maybe it’s not that sophisticated or flowery yet.

Campbell, of course, is the avatar for this feeling. It’s one measly postseason win yet he’s already an all time great Detroit coach. Low bar, sure, but he manifested this into existence, knowing exactly what it would mean.

As he has done for the past year and a half, he was speaking to his squad in the victorious locker room. Being the shame charismatic, wouldn’t-you-just-die-to-go-to-war-with-this-guy aura he’s developed because it comes effortlessly. He was calling out Brad Holmes, the man who turned a construction site that had been repeatedly condemned into a winner. Jard Goff heard him tell him that he was good enough for Detroit, which is a line that will sell thousands of T-shirts and make some guys cry a little.

Absolutely. That took place. It might occur once more in a few days. How much electricity was in that? the most electrical. So intense that it’s unsettling to think of another victory. or participating in the conference final. or the match following the conference final.

But Lions supporters can do that as of right now.