Training camp is on the horizon. The smell of football is on the air, and it’s not that musky just yet. It’s the first of many stations of “the return of football,” where we force baseball out of the way and tell the basketball nerds to be quiet with their psychotic free agency ramblings that amount to absolutely nothing; the One True Sport is on its way back.
This is the year the Detroit Lions have to prove a great deal many things: divisional expectations, playoffs expectations and just the general principle of hanging with The Big Boys.