SO MANY moments that I want to capture before they fade! Here’s 3 and would love to read yours!
65,000 fans genuinely united in that stadium. When you face the Lions, you also gotta face their fans!
The cold-blooded call on 2nd and 9 to throw to ARSB and end the game! Effin’ fearless!
That Campbell smartly took the penalty that backed the Rams up 10 yards and out of FG range on their last possession. That was game-winning coaching in the playoffs (not “take the wind” coaching)!
What are things you never want to forget about this game!
Being in person, it was the chanting of Jared Goff. That will stick with me forever. It was as though the transition from Stafford to Goff was made manifest through the energy of 65,000 people, or, at the very least, we let the goddamn world know where we stood.
I literally got out of my seat, walked over to the Fanatics store, and bought a Goff jersey. That did it for me.
The game … the game was anxiety fueled. The only other moment that’s comparable is 65k people not understanding football because the moment was so intense we lost our collective bearings. I think Dan Miller was the only one who understood it at the time.
I don’t think it was necessarily losing the bearings, so much as it was waiting for some bizarre penalty or ruling mixed with disbelief that it was really happening at all
I did the math in my head two plays before the 2 minute warning. I was literally yelling “WAIT!!! WAIT!!!” until the clock hit 2:40 and then said “OK YOU’RE GOOD!!!” because I knew snapping the ball before 2:40 would’ve made us use another down. For some reason, I assumed our third kneel down was only going to take 30 seconds off of the clock, unlike the first two kneel downs I accounted for at 40 seconds, which was going to put us at 1:50 of time used. The clock was at 1:54 after the play, so I thought we were going to run the ball on the next set of downs. When we started taking knees I just assumed we were going to call timeout with about 5 seconds left and then punt it, because there was no way they’d get into FG range in 5 seconds.
Then I did the math again when the clock was at about 1:30, and I realized it was over. I immediately starting losing my mind in excitement.
2nd-and-7, I think. DMo gets the screen for about 3, jukes the defender, and surges forward for 11 and the first crucial 1st down on what will become the game-winning, victory-formation drive. Huge play, of course, but so good to see that guy, who embodies that Detroit grit/hard-knocks/blue-collar/lunchpail mentality as much as anybody (though a newbie) - to see THAT guy make a monster play… did my heart good.
"I’ll just say it like this, alright? Hey, you’re good enough for f–king Detroit, Jared Goff.”
Oh my. The NFL is a league where head coaches, in particular, say the right things about other teams and coaches. Dan Campbell isn’t any different, and I generally think that Dan actually thinks those things. He genuinely respects the league, respects his peer coaches, all of that. It’s not BS. But for him to punctuate’s Jared’s great night not simply w/the game ball or words of praise, both of which he DID, but w/a sweet dig at the Rams… That’s a coach saying: if there was any doubt, JG, YOU’RE our guy; you’re MY guy; and F-anyone who said you weren’t good enough. I LOVE it. And you bet Jared and the rest of the team love Coach even more for it. too.
“Ja-red GOFF! Ja-red GOFF!”
65,000 Lions fans chant my QB’s name before the game. Jared’s teammates pick it up as he enters the victorious locker room postgame. After what that young man has been thru, and the astounding strength of character he’s shown throughout, I don’t know that I’d be prouder of him than if he were my kid.
I think my favorite memories so far are:
Dan/Brad locker room celebration.
Goff and his wife pregame with the chants going in unison. That one got me today, perhaps more than anything the last 24 hours.
Yep, me too…it was sureal, I had no idea what had just happened, then it slowly sunk in and I may have started to whimper villanous tears of joy a little
I loved it when Foxy smashed the ball over the return man’s head every time with so much hang time on it that the gunners are literally waiting for it to come down. Hilarious.
Love every time the RBs either bully with Monty or juuuust ■■■■■■■ juice them with Gibby. In awe of Ra too. He makes some plays that people are not supposed to make too.
This! You know they will never forget.
Goff already had it in his head he was going to win. From that moment on, I don’t think he was going to lose.
I think that moment is going to win us a Super Bowl.
