IMPOSSIBLE DREAM....Detroit Lions fight to keep history of futility in Tampa, CB vows to walk back if they win!!!

GREEN BAY, Wisc.- British abolitionist, Baron Thomas Foxwell Buxton is best known for saying, "With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable." Surely he must have known the Detroit Lions. Hopefully they will use this quote as their battle cry heading into the game today against the Green Bay Packers. With a loss they will achieve a new modern day record for NFL futility, 0-16.

Earlier this week, Lions cornerback Travis Fisher said he wouldn't fly back with the team if they found a way to get the win in Green Bay. "If we win, I ain't catching the plane back home," he said with a laugh "I'll walk back to Detroit." (AP)

Not since the 1976 expansion Tampa Buccaneers went 0-14 has any team failed to win at least one game in a season. In the 16 game era, no team had ever gone 0-15, until last week. But the Lions set a new low with their pitiful peformance last week in the 42-7 drubbing against the visiting New Orleans Saints and their fans shouldn't expect much more today. These Lions have been hibernating for most of the season. The last time the team actually won a game was two days before Christmas last year. Somehow, they found a way to plummet from potential playoff contenders after a 6-2 start to perrenial doormats losing seven of their last eight games and stumbling to a 7-9 record overall.


Now they have to find a way to win in the tough cold treacherous weather conditions of Wisconsin in December.


The temperature at game time is 22 degrees and anticipated wind gusts of up to 23 mph throughout the day.

In this remarkable year we have seen so many things that have inspired us to hope for change in our lives and society.

THE NOT SO GOOD
We have endured natural disasters on all of our coasts, from the wildfires of California to the hurricanes and tornadoes in South Texas and all along the Atlantic coasts. We are experiencing the greatest economic decline since the Great Depression, unemployment rates are at all time highs, our homes are losing value and our cars are worthless and millions of Americans are without healthcare and millions more suffer in poverty.

THE GOOD TO COME FOR AMERICA
We have elected a black man President and we've witnessed the end of the Bush administration.

THE HOPE FOR THE FUTURE ....
If there is any hope left in what has been awe inspiring 362 days so far in 2008 let us all hope that the Lions and the city of Detroit will be able to look back in the years to come and say that despite of over-whelming odds against them on this day and the tremendous adversity the faced, and say that they did not go quietly into the night. They fought back and said NO to making history for futility and just won baby!! You can do it LIONS!!