LIONS 27, VIKINGS 24HALLELUJAHLIONS SAVOR THEIR FIRST VICTORY
Today, the Lions are just another losing team.Pop the champagne!Say Hallelujah! Light a candle! Someone get Matt Millen an oxygen machine! When the final seconds clicked off the Silverdome clock Sunday afternoon, you’d have thought the Super Bowl had been won,...
NOW IT’S TIME FOR A LITTLE KISS AND TELL
I’ve waited years to tell this story. But when I saw the rock star on TV, I knew the time had come.The rock star is Gene Simmons, the driving force behind Kiss, one of the most successful bands in history. Years ago, a friend called to say Simmons, who spit...
Hold Boorish Fans Accountable, Too
For the next few minutes, your name is John, OK? And you are a coach. And you have been losing. And you are walking off the court. And this is what you hear:
“Hey, John! You suck!”
“Hey, John! I saw your wife last night and I — her!”
“Hey, John! You can —- my —, you —!”
How do you like it? What are you thinking? Are you thinking, “I make a lot of money, so I don’t hear any of this”? Or are you starting to seethe?
“Hey, John! Your mother is a — sack of —!”
“Hey, John! You look like a — load of —!”
FORGET A PLAYOFF, WORRY ABOUT LAYOFF
Now that we are finished with the insanity of college football, we can finally focus on something else: the lunacy of college football.Allowing a computer to pick your title contenders is weird enough. But sitting around for a month before you play the actual game is...
Preoccupation With Celebrity A National Ill
One of the nice things to come out of Sept. 11 was a breakup in America’s love affair with celebrities.
For a few reasonable weeks, in the aftermath of the World Trade Center rubble, the idea of who some movie star was dating seemed beyond silly.
It seemed insulting.
Morrie’s View on the War? It Would Be . . .
‘We are more alike than different.” My old professor, Morrie Schwartz, told me that.
We were sitting in his home, watching the TV news, Morrie under a blanket, dying from ALS, his body already decayed beyond hope.
The fighting then was in Bosnia. We saw awful images, death and destruction. Morrie began to cry.
“What’s wrong?” I asked.
“This is so terrible,” he whispered.
“Well, of course,” I said, embarrassed, “but you don’t know any of those people. Why are you crying?”
Leno Makes Levity Of Lions’ Misery
People try their whole lives to get on Jay Leno’s “Tonight Show.” So you could say the Lions are the envy of the nation.
The Lions don’t see it that way. JAY: Later this month, Britney Spears is playing Detroit. She’s a two-touchdown favorite over the Lions! Ba-dum-bump.
JAY: The Lions lost again. They’re 0-11. No. Wait. They’re 0-10. . . . On SUNDAY, they’ll be 0-11.
Heyy-ooo!
YOU CAN’T JUDGE THE NEW PISTONS OFF ONE BAD NIGHT
Iwent to see the “new” Pistons on Wednesday night. You know the “new” Pistons? The best shooting team in the NBA? The team that won nine of its first 13 games? The team that has everyone in the city going, “How about those Pistons?...
IT’S TIME FOR A FEW BELATED THANK-YOUS
I’m a little slow. I admit it. It took me 16 years to re-connect with my old professor, Morrie Schwartz, and that was just before he died.Now, here it is, 16 years after I took this job at the Free Press, and I realize I have never written a...Stay Connected
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