OT: A List of Obscure / Favorite Lions

Submitted by matty blue on January 23rd, 2024 at 9:27 AM

i'm not one for creating board posts, but at the gym this morning i was thinking about how long i've been a fan (a.k.a. "victim") of this team, and how much fun i'm having with this team right now.

then i was remembering that greg landry was my first favorite football player.  then charlie sanders, and altie taylor, and lem barney (i got his autograph, once), and mike lucci (oh, man i LOVED mike lucci), and steve owens, and...

okay, old farts and less-scarred younguns.  your list of lions.  no barry sanders, no calvin, no stafford, just your list of Guys.

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browolverine

January 23rd, 2024 at 12:21 PM ^

Billy Sims - a great back who is 8th ALL TIME in rushing yards per game (85.1).   Barry Sanders is 2nd (99.8) and Jim Brown is 1st (and the only back over 100/ypg at 104.3).    

Joined: 10/01/2014

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browolverine

January 23rd, 2024 at 12:31 PM ^

Jerry Ball: First team All-State in high school in Texas at 6'0" 235 lbs. then played at 330 lbs. while making three Pro Bowls at nose tackle for the Lions.  Just a great athlete and great football player. 

Joined: 10/01/2014

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Zoltanrules

January 23rd, 2024 at 12:56 PM ^

Mike Lucci and him plugging Vic Tanny's Health Spa.

Errol Mann - I went to my first Lions game in 1970. They played the Packers at Tiger Stadium in a close contest. Errol Mann had a chance to make a short FG. He promptly doinked one off the cross bar and some drunk yells, " Hey Errol I can f'ing piss farther than that!.  As a youngster, I thought that was the funniest thing I had ever heard laughing all the way home. My Mom didn't think it was so funny when I repeated it to her....

Joined: 08/23/2009

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Reno Drew

January 23rd, 2024 at 1:16 PM ^

Loved middle linebacker Paul Naumoff, mostly because he lived in our neighborhood was my basketball coach in either 5th or 6th grade in Rochester Hills. He was one of the best coaches I had- everyone played, he designed all sorts of crazy trick plays and the goal was to have fun.  Kind of the opposite of how you'd think a Detroit Lions linebacker would be as a coach. https://www.detroitlions.com/news/o-hara-remembering-paul-naumoff

Never got to see him but my dad took care of Gil Mains so we had some stuff he signed around our house

Joined: 10/16/2012

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NittanyFan

January 23rd, 2024 at 1:27 PM ^

He barely played in the NFL (one year, 1989 with the Lions) ---- Keith Karpinski, he was a good decade+ ahead of me but we both went to the same Detroit area HS (Warren De La Salle) and then college (PSU).  Also shares my first name.

Joined: 12/04/2012

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Cromulent

January 23rd, 2024 at 3:05 PM ^

Dexter Bussey. Absolute class act. We drafted Billy Sims and made Dexter the #2. Never complained, stayed professional and prepared. 

After retirement stayed here to raise his family. This was fortunate for me. 

Soon after meeting my wife we got serious. For first time I had to consider whether our families would mesh. Out and about in her neck of the woods one afternoon she points to a house and informs me “that’s where Dexter Bussey lives”.

i tell her Dexter was perhaps my dad’s all time favorite Lion, and why. She looks at me and says Dexter is *her* dad’s favorite Lion too. 


My concerns began to ease. 

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