Whether you live two miles from Ford Field or 2,000, if you have been a Detroit Lions fan long enough, chances are you have developed some coping mechanisms along the way.
You could also label these habits as game day traditions—although, at this point, one could argue they are one in the same, especially among Lions fans.
They can take different shapes through the course of the years. Maybe for a few years of your fandom you were a college student, and a staple of your game day routine was having a heavy breakfast and copious amounts of coffee to counter the night before.