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It’s Early October, Of Course You’ll Stay Up

Related Topics: Darren Helm, Henrik Zetterberg, Lion

If the Lions had blown a 24 point lead to Green Bay today, I might have been in a deep stupor by now. I'm pretty sure I would not have handled that well.

But...they didn't. And here we are.

Babcock-lite told us we'd see "60 minutes of Hell". He said it. He even had t-shirts made.

We didn't see much Hell the other night. We saw a lot of scared kids, playing conservatively, afraid to make mistakes.

We also saw:

-Karen Newman in leather, Hank Zetterberg looking as uncomfortable as I've ever seen him, lots of empty seats, Darren Helm losing the handle on not one but two semi-breakaways.