10.15.19 Bee-otch of the Day: NFL

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Name: National Football League
Age: 99
Occupation: sports organization
Last Seen: New York City
Bee-otched For: turning the Lions into kitty cats
 

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I went to bed during the halftime of last night's Monday Night Football. And as usual, the sun rises from the east and settles in the west.

And at the end of the day, the Lions lost.

Last night's battle with the Green Bay Packers was a close slobberknocker that had the Pack winning by just one point. But a huge part of the reason of course was the officiating of last night's game.

Many in Detroit claimed that the referees penalized the Lions for offenses that should have been for the Packers. One was for touching of the facemask. Lions got the penalty, not the Packers. Even Barry Sanders took to Twitter to criticize the NFL for allowing the Cheeseheads to win.

The sad reality is that the Lions' relationship with the NFL refs has been a horrid one. Remember their loss to the Cowboys in the playoffs several years ago? Remember (ugh) Chris Christie dancing in the skybox with Jerry Jones? Puke my guts out.

I have a theory, and it's the fact that the NFL hates the Ford family. In the league, there's something called the "Rooney Rule", named for the late Pittsburgh Steelers owner Dan Rooney, who insisted that team owners interview minorities for coaching jobs before interviewing whites. In 2003, Then-team owner William Clay Ford interviewed his top pick, Steve Mariucci, which pissed off NFL execs. In the end, Mariucci was fired because of his horrid record. They had a black coach, Jim Caldwell who was their winningist coach in over 50 years. But he was canned in 2018 for current coach Matt Patricia despite a 9-7 season.

In the world of football, some want to compare the lonesome Lions to baseball's Chicago Cubs and Boston Red Sox, two teams that went forever without a World Series win. The team hasn't won a championship since 1957 and only won one playoff game under Ford family ownership.

This Sunday, the Lions will go head-to-head against the Minnesota Vikings, 4-2 on the season and in second place in the NFC North. The Lions are dead last with a 2-2-1. All I can say is that Lions fans should cheer up since the Dolphins and Bengals remain winless. Plus, the season's not over. I predict that they'll go 8-7-1, but whether or not if it will lead them into the playoffs is anyone's guess this early in the season. It's up to Matt Stafford and whether or not the refs are biased or not.

But let's remember what the letters FORD stand for: Fix It Again, Tony... No, wait....

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