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Of course he would. I hate seeing teams with long periods of droughts mostly because of the older fans who've witnessed the torture longer than we have. This is coming from a Blues fan who dealt with many heartbreaks before we won the Cup last year. Still not as bad as for example, Blues fans who put up with Ralston Purina and the Blues nearly moving to Saskatoon
DJ Trankilo I’m sorry Steve yzerman tipped ur heart out don’t know if u were alive but happy y’all made it over the hump from a wings fan hopefully we can get back to competing in sports cause rn we got 4 lottery pick teams
when the lions won their last title 63% of the leagues franchises weren't even thought off or in other words only 12 other franchises existed when the lions won their latest championship
@@stldweller the funny thing is that as a life long lion's fan they really have had only 2 noteworthy things happen in the past 25 years. 2 generational superstars retiring well before they were done trumps anything they've done.
@@Bork19 it worked with the Chicago Blackhawks. Bill Wirtz was a horrible owner and made the Blackhawks a forgettable franchise till his death. His son Rocky took over and now the Blackhawks are considered a model franchise again. Then again, I can't recall a time where a football heir/ess made their team better after their incompetent parent ruined the franchise for years.
@@gregpellegrin8713 Man you missed out when barry sanders made the cowboys look like little children in his only playoff win. Also, Barry Sanders is greatest RB of all time, second place is not even close to barry. This is coming from packers fan.
As a Chiefs fan nothing would please me more than to see a team like the Lions go on to see significant success. Those fans are so loyal, they deserve it.
As a lions fan when I first saw she was stepping down I was like: “Thank god she’s gone maybe now we can get an owner that cares about football.” Me seeing the lions are staying in the Ford Family: 😭😭😭🤬🤬🤬
If it makes you feel better I am a Titans fan and when Amy Adams took over the Titans back in 2016 she admitted that she didn't much about football so she hired people who did. Now the Titans have been to the playoffs 2 of the last 4 years.
@K Will 1991- Erik Kramer was quarterback, Herman Moore and Brett Perriman were receivers. Chris Spielman was playing middle linebacker, and some nobody from Oklahoma State was running the ball. I think his name was Buddy or Barry or something like that.
That team had 2 Heisman winners and one Heisman runner up. Barry Sanders on the field, and Chuck Long and Andre Ware riding the bench behind Erik Kramer.
F me to Tears. I have been a Michigander for all of my 61.7 years. The last time the Lions did anything I was still in the womb. What’s the common denominator? The Ford Family. I’m moving to SW FLA in August. Hello Tampa Bay!
Was laughing the entire time that Foxy was talking - watch the guy with the mustache behind him as he talks about how great things are going to be! =) =)
My grandfather would tell me about Bobby Layne and how great they were in the 50s, and how he knew he would see them win eventually. He died in 08. He waited 50+ years. I'm currently in my 30s I was to young to remember the playoff win of 92, so in my lifetime and basically most of my Grandfather's life we've been waiting for eventually. *checks watch* Anyyyyyyyy minute now.
@@wendypasanen5875 If you are a Lion's fan, you would absolutely want the team sold to someone that actually can help them, so i don't understand that sentiment. To be a fan you have to blindly have faith and loyalty towards an organization that doesn't give a rat's ass about you? Makes no sense.
nothing will change. when you have this level of nepotism in sports, chances are the family just looks at the team as a cash cow. winning is a plus but not needed to them. this is why the team has been pure garbage juice for so long. Detroit use to be the richest city in america with the help of henry ford, and what did his family do? moved all the factories out of the city to make a couple extra bucks, and now the city is poor. henry ford would slap his fam if he was here.
nepotism? they own the team haha they aren't going to give it to somebody else unless they sell it lol. now the owners can definitely choose to hire people that know football and stay the hell out of the way which is the only smart way to do it but passing the team down to your child isn't nepotism.
@NormanRockswell A difference exists between nepotism, and inheritance. If they sold the team in the same family at a low price or gave every front office job, and coaching job to family that would be nepotism. If you pass down something to a family member that's inheritance. I think you may want to look up the definitions of both again. The family owns the team... So, what do you suggest they do? Go oh no I don't want to let my family inherit anything and just give it away? Inheritance is not nepotism. Nepotism is not inheritance.
Detroit was the arsenal of democracy during WWII. A B-24 came off the assembly line 1 an hour. After the war, the government didn't want all of our industry in one place. Hence to moving. What happens to the Lions is anybody's guess. But the fans are not optimistic.
That's why I feel that any pro sports team doesn't need to be family owned yes they have their own money, but then you get the Lakers ownership and the lions and many other families that make bad decisions ( Bengals with no indoor facility)
Funny hearing Foxy lament that he hadn't seen a playoff win in his 25 years. I'm 40 and I've only ever seen them play two playoff games, both losses 😂😂😂
I always got the impression Martha Ford wants to win. She just didn't know how. At least she realized her limitation and brought in help with hiring Bob Quin. That hasn't worked out so far, but I respect her for giving a better effort than her husband who was notorious for bringing in friends to run the team.
And after all these years, Queen Elizabeth (huge Lions fan) only saw them win 143 regular season games and a single playoff win out of 20 appearances in their 128 seasons as an NFL team. The last time they had a solid chance to win it all, John Adams was elected president.
I am a long time Raiders fan & our Owner/coach, went home to those big Box seats, in the sky(He never really left the sidelines). A few years ago, team went to his son, & they have made moves for the last, better- part of a decade. To get here.. But this year we "win baby win".. I am dreaming big, but...." Super Bowl"!!
You hit the nail on the head with the Caldwell comment. We haven't had a decent coach in 30yrs and we get Caldwell to take a piece of crap team and make them competitive. We've been waiting like what 60yrs and they couldn't give caldwell a longer bid. And if I remember right he was given an extension earlier in the year. With all of that said it feels like the lockeroom is missing that stud of a leader.
I'm from Michigan. The last time the Lions won a championship my 66 year old dad was not yet 3. The last time the Lions won a playoff game I was 10, and now I am almost 40. The Ford family has owned this team since the early 1960s. The only playoff game they won was mostly because whoever ran this team in the late 1980s luckily managed to draft some really great players all at the same time. This is not the move that is going to turn all this around. Nothing will change until the Ford family has nothing more to do with the Lions. The only member of the immediate family who has had success in cars is Martha's son Bill Ford Jr. who was once CEO of Ford Motor Co. The rest of them including Martha's deceased husband were all just trust fund idiots.
Harvey Firestone and Henry ford word were friends all the early Ford's only came with firestone tires. And they were both based Northwest of the Ohio River. Not a shocker that 2 of their kids got married.
Wonder if she's going to pay taxes on this, or if everyone still owns the same amount of the team it's just Sheila gets named as "principle owner" but no exchange of anything happened.
Martha's mother married Henry Fords grandson. Marthas grandfather created Firestone. Henry Ford made a deal with Marthas grandfather Harvey Firestone to put his tires on Ford vehicles out of the manufacturers plants. Thats how they met.
“I’m 25 years old and never seen a Lions playoff win.”
I showed this to my dad - a 58-year-old lifelong Lions fan - and he laughed.
Of course he would. I hate seeing teams with long periods of droughts mostly because of the older fans who've witnessed the torture longer than we have. This is coming from a Blues fan who dealt with many heartbreaks before we won the Cup last year. Still not as bad as for example, Blues fans who put up with Ralston Purina and the Blues nearly moving to Saskatoon
I'm in my 60s and haven't seen them win anything.
DJ Trankilo I’m sorry Steve yzerman tipped ur heart out don’t know if u were alive but happy y’all made it over the hump from a wings fan hopefully we can get back to competing in sports cause rn we got 4 lottery pick teams
Same Hbd
james donelson dont worry we winning play off
I was about to say congrats to lions fans until I realized her daughter is just gonna continue to run the franchise into the ground
Was it ever above ground? Even with a decade of Barry they did nothing.
Karl Renner and a decade with arguably the best wr in modern times
Cmon, be realistic: do you really think that any living being could dig the lions out of their Detroit grave?
Kai Santiago Andrews Yhea someone who understands football and how run and manage an organization.
when the lions won their last title
63% of the leagues franchises weren't even thought off
or in other words only 12 other franchises existed when the lions won their latest championship
"we have some breaking news in the NFL world Revolving around the Detroit Lions"
I've been alive 27 years and never heard someone say that.
Never heard breaking news about the Lions lol? How about every time we fire or hire a coach? How about Barry or CJ retiring?
They definitely said that when Sanders and Megatron retired.
Difference between a hometown fan and a real fan
@@stldweller the funny thing is that as a life long lion's fan they really have had only 2 noteworthy things happen in the past 25 years. 2 generational superstars retiring well before they were done trumps anything they've done.
@@stldweller What was the other noteworthy time?
The Ford family still owns the team, it doesn’t matter.
oh son of a bitch...I thought we were free for half a second
She’s too old and senile, everyone hates her, she steps down and gives control to her daughter, who she tells what to do behind the scenes
Never know, same family doesn’t necessarily nothing changes. I think most cowboy fans can’t wait for Jerry to give Stephen full control.
@@Bork19 it worked with the Chicago Blackhawks. Bill Wirtz was a horrible owner and made the Blackhawks a forgettable franchise till his death. His son Rocky took over and now the Blackhawks are considered a model franchise again. Then again, I can't recall a time where a football heir/ess made their team better after their incompetent parent ruined the franchise for years.
Jake Weber sheila has probably been running it for a while. It’s just official now.
"I'm 25 years old and never seen a playoff win" :( heartbreaking
I'm a 34 year old lions fan that also hasn't witnessed a playoff win....
I feel you dude I’m 23 and a browns fan :,(
@@gregpellegrin8713 Man you missed out when barry sanders made the cowboys look like little children in his only playoff win. Also, Barry Sanders is greatest RB of all time, second place is not even close to barry. This is coming from packers fan.
I'm 36, and I feel ya!!!
You got another 25 years to go.
As a Lions fan, this DOESNT matter at all lol! Unfortunately
Next Season Superbowl
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Agreed
Dont mean anything.
As my grandpa always said, the Lions will never win as long as they are owned by the Fords
As a Chiefs fan nothing would please me more than to see a team like the Lions go on to see significant success. Those fans are so loyal, they deserve it.
Chiefs let's gooooooooo
Chiefs BABY!!! We gonna keep winning . not 1 not 2 not 3 not 4 not 5 ... 😁
@@christopherrouse5649 ahahhahaha u wish
As a lions fan i gained a lot of respect for chief fans after the game last year. Best luck on your season.
The Cubs won a world series
As a lions fan when I first saw she was stepping down I was like: “Thank god she’s gone maybe now we can get an owner that cares about football.”
Me seeing the lions are staying in the Ford Family: 😭😭😭🤬🤬🤬
If it makes you feel better I am a Titans fan and when Amy Adams took over the Titans back in 2016 she admitted that she didn't much about football so she hired people who did. Now the Titans have been to the playoffs 2 of the last 4 years.
Its like a big Frat party whenever I tune into this show.
Fr😂
Lmao pat be like
"LET ME POUND A COLD ONE!! USA! USA!"
Lions fans actually thinking this will make a difference lmaoo
Sheila has already been running it
read the comments here. All of us Lions fans are saying it's not going to matter lol. It's nice to hear Martha stepping down, but we all know.
What imaginary lions fans have you seen say that?
No she hasn't... Martha Ford was in total control, you don't know what you're talking about
Martha Ford is 94 years old, the only one as old as her is Virginia McCaskey and she's 97. It's about time she stepped down.
Can we all admit that Martha Firestone Ford is a badass name?🔥🔥
Agreed 😂
MFF! Awesome!
I got a Firestone Tire ad on this video 😂😂
I love when those things happen lol
Cool bro
As a Bills fan I hope for future success for the Lions! You gave us a second home when we needed it a few years ago!
you know 2020 is messed up when the lions start making good decisions
same family
Hahahahahahaha
2020 has been the craziest year of all time let’s win a Super Bowl and make it crazier
This doesnt even count lol.....BS sell it
Her daughters taking her place so nothing changes
They might actually have a chance now...wow
edit: Did more research *NVM*
The mom is 94. Sheila has probably been running the team for a long time.
When I look where we started and where we are at, makes me tear. She knows what she is doing and the leadership is champs!
Now off to the nfc championship
I’m 31 years old and my Lions have only won ONE playoff game in my lifeltime lol it’s tough being a Lions fan.
So last time they won, you were 2?
DJ Trankilo lol yep, pretty sad.
I'm 49 and still hanging on that one playoff win.
@K Will 1991- Erik Kramer was quarterback, Herman Moore and Brett Perriman were receivers. Chris Spielman was playing middle linebacker, and some nobody from Oklahoma State was running the ball. I think his name was Buddy or Barry or something like that.
That team had 2 Heisman winners and one Heisman runner up. Barry Sanders on the field, and Chuck Long and Andre Ware riding the bench behind Erik Kramer.
"classic nepotism" 🏈
@Gjr Hatz relax child
fun to see this video 3 years later.
F me to Tears. I have been a Michigander for all of my 61.7 years. The last time the Lions did anything I was still in the womb. What’s the common denominator? The Ford Family. I’m moving to SW FLA in August. Hello Tampa Bay!
April Loves Golf
Thsnks. I will.
They at least have an indoor practice facility.
As a 38 yr old life long Lions fan, never get to excited. They’ll only disappoint you
When I got the notification about this, I got so happy, but then I saw it was another Ford and gave up all hope.
Was laughing the entire time that Foxy was talking - watch the guy with the mustache behind him as he talks about how great things are going to be! =) =)
4:56 as a Michigan fan I know that this could not be more true!! Let’s go pat!😂😂
Lmfao "Martha seee yaaaa later"
It won't change much at all but it's still the best thing that's ever happened to the lions
"Make the Detroit Lions a dynasty "again."
Did I miss where they were ever a dynasty before?
The 50’s when they had Bobby Layne
Back in the 1980s they were but only boomers remember those days
Skyler McQuiston that damn curse just keeps going and going.
50s... 3 NFL championships in 6 years
@@skylermcquiston5911 pre super bowl era is fake news
My grandfather would tell me about Bobby Layne and how great they were in the 50s, and how he knew he would see them win eventually. He died in 08. He waited 50+ years. I'm currently in my 30s I was to young to remember the playoff win of 92, so in my lifetime and basically most of my Grandfather's life we've been waiting for eventually. *checks watch* Anyyyyyyyy minute now.
Jerry Jones, your move.
Hey Pat, is there a way to call into the show
Pat you should react to Marquis King trying to flex on the sport of rugby!!!
It didn’t go down well I assure you
Link?
I’m a lions fan. I just want them to sell the team
Research the word fan
Dynasty starting now
Youcancallme Funk I’m a diehard fan of them. I want to see them win and to me that means sell the team. I can like the team but not like the ownership
Hands down, no excuses, ur not a fan then
@@wendypasanen5875 If you are a Lion's fan, you would absolutely want the team sold to someone that actually can help them, so i don't understand that sentiment. To be a fan you have to blindly have faith and loyalty towards an organization that doesn't give a rat's ass about you? Makes no sense.
watching this in 2024 after the Lions just won their first playoff game in 32 years. Foxy called the turning point
Guy in the back shaking his head, lol
When he said “I’m 25 years old. I’ve never seen a playoff win”....
I felt that, with me also being a 25-year-old fan of dogshit.
nothing will change. when you have this level of nepotism in sports, chances are the family just looks at the team as a cash cow. winning is a plus but not needed to them. this is why the team has been pure garbage juice for so long. Detroit use to be the richest city in america with the help of henry ford, and what did his family do? moved all the factories out of the city to make a couple extra bucks, and now the city is poor. henry ford would slap his fam if he was here.
nepotism? they own the team haha they aren't going to give it to somebody else unless they sell it lol. now the owners can definitely choose to hire people that know football and stay the hell out of the way which is the only smart way to do it but passing the team down to your child isn't nepotism.
@NormanRockswell A difference exists between nepotism, and inheritance. If they sold the team in the same family at a low price or gave every front office job, and coaching job to family that would be nepotism. If you pass down something to a family member that's inheritance. I think you may want to look up the definitions of both again. The family owns the team... So, what do you suggest they do? Go oh no I don't want to let my family inherit anything and just give it away? Inheritance is not nepotism. Nepotism is not inheritance.
Definitely agree with Henry Ford slapping his family if he was here though.
Detroit was the arsenal of democracy during WWII. A B-24 came off the assembly line 1 an hour. After the war, the government didn't want all of our industry in one place. Hence to moving.
What happens to the Lions is anybody's guess. But the fans are not optimistic.
That's why I feel that any pro sports team doesn't need to be family owned yes they have their own money, but then you get the Lakers ownership and the lions and many other families that make bad decisions ( Bengals with no indoor facility)
This is the equivalent of Bob Nutting stepping down for the Pirates. Sorry Lions.
1:02 “stepping dahn” nice
Funny hearing Foxy lament that he hadn't seen a playoff win in his 25 years. I'm 40 and I've only ever seen them play two playoff games, both losses 😂😂😂
I was at their last playoff win... I was 8. I'm now 35. FML!!!
Sheila Ford married into the Hamp family. The Hamp family invented clothes hampers.
Imagine wasting the years of Calvin and Barry sanders
Seeing this almost a year later and so far she’s doing a great job
“”””Announc”””” Lol
Tuesday June 23rd, a day that will live in Lions lore, indeed the dynasty did begin this date in history! 🦁🦁 ONEPRIDE!
As a Packers fan I love the Ford family. Same old same old
When you're having a good day and get reminded families like this exist
Yeah. It ruins it.
Detroit vs Everybody. 1 playoff win in 60 years! Never been to the Super Bowl! Go Lions!
@Joe Madej To where?
There's rich and there is Firestone-Ford rich. Lmao. Lil Chappelle show reference kinda
The Typography on this headline🤧
I always thank The Fords for keeping the bottom secure so The Halas’ don’t seem so bad.
Nothing will change. In fact Sheila is the one who pushed for Patricia and Quinn to be retained for this season.
I always got the impression Martha Ford wants to win. She just didn't know how. At least she realized her limitation and brought in help with hiring Bob Quin. That hasn't worked out so far, but I respect her for giving a better effort than her husband who was notorious for bringing in friends to run the team.
And after all these years, Queen Elizabeth (huge Lions fan) only saw them win 143 regular season games and a single playoff win out of 20 appearances in their 128 seasons as an NFL team. The last time they had a solid chance to win it all, John Adams was elected president.
Matt Patricia will be coaching the Dolphins D next year under Flores
The lemon doesn't fall far from the lemon tree.😕
1:08 was epic as hell
Why does Pat keep using @mysportsupdates as official news?
Jeff Bezos: "anyone got change for a trillion?"
Was Paris Hilton unavailable?
Is a bout time she stepped down she never gave a dam about this team
This is where I come for football and any sports news. DaDaDa, DaDaDa!!!!
Firestone and henry ford were the best of friends, Pat
So when do the Lions move to Oakland??
Not happening. They are locked into an iron clad lease with Ford Field till 2037.
No real Lions fans actually think this will change anything. Sheila needs to do the right thing and sell the team.
Thomas Long ; agreed or whatever Ford child they pass it down to just wants the pay day and cashes out, unlikely though.
'Sheila, who is this ghastly man!'
I really hope she wants to win. Sick of losing
Wish for for a Lions playoff win in one hand and take a crap in the other and see which one fills up first.
Lions take drastic steps to improve
"Okay, like I guess you can use analytics this season guys, let me just start the dial up."
Finally
Now just sell them
The Team is owned by Ford Motor Company through the family.
I work for Firestone. I didn’t know they were with ford😂
I need an actual game in the Super Bowl to be convinced
I am a long time Raiders fan & our Owner/coach, went home to those big Box seats, in the sky(He never really left the sidelines). A few years ago, team went to his son, & they have made moves for the last, better- part of a decade. To get here.. But this year we "win baby win".. I am dreaming big, but...." Super Bowl"!!
Foxy is not a Lions fan. Because we Lions fans all know nothing changes until the Fords sell the team. It's in the Bible for petes sake...
"Thou shall not win playoff football in Detroit" -Football 3:2
@@TheHuskyK9 "Thou shall not win playoff football with Ford as owner." Fixed that for you.
"Michigan State stinks" 😂
Fr tho?
Go Blue!
Go green biatch
GO GREEN!!! 2025 GRAD
You hit the nail on the head with the Caldwell comment. We haven't had a decent coach in 30yrs and we get Caldwell to take a piece of crap team and make them competitive. We've been waiting like what 60yrs and they couldn't give caldwell a longer bid. And if I remember right he was given an extension earlier in the year. With all of that said it feels like the lockeroom is missing that stud of a leader.
Let's not gloss over the BURN @ 3:28 🤣
When the Lions have a good 2020
I'm from Michigan. The last time the Lions won a championship my 66 year old dad was not yet 3. The last time the Lions won a playoff game I was 10, and now I am almost 40. The Ford family has owned this team since the early 1960s. The only playoff game they won was mostly because whoever ran this team in the late 1980s luckily managed to draft some really great players all at the same time. This is not the move that is going to turn all this around. Nothing will change until the Ford family has nothing more to do with the Lions. The only member of the immediate family who has had success in cars is Martha's son Bill Ford Jr. who was once CEO of Ford Motor Co. The rest of them including Martha's deceased husband were all just trust fund idiots.
Steven K. Hamp was the vice president of the ford motor company.
Who else is coming back after Detroit won 55 and 56
Lol she steeping DAHN...is that like Jersey slang for down ....lol
Harvey Firestone and Henry ford word were friends all the early Ford's only came with firestone tires. And they were both based Northwest of the Ohio River. Not a shocker that 2 of their kids got married.
Love that pick of hawk on the shitter
The Detroit Lions: Property of the Fix-Or-Repair-Daily family!
Fix Or Replace Daily.
SELL. THE. DAMN. TEAM. PLLLEEEAASSEEE!!.....SHESSH
Pat's shirt explains this all
I too attended State and always respected UofM and routed for them growing up, but pat you gotta lay off us bro 🤣
I'm in Detroit, same family, same results
Bears and Bulls owner next please!
Back in the day, all ford vehicles came with factory firestone tires.
Until the tires started blowing up, and your explorer was on its roof.
Still a better Ford product than the Lions
Hi Pat 👋🏼
Wonder if she's going to pay taxes on this, or if everyone still owns the same amount of the team it's just Sheila gets named as "principle owner" but no exchange of anything happened.
Transitioning from Bill to Michael Bidwill made a difference for the Cardinals. You never know.
Yeah
But as a Steeler fan im glad to have the Rooney family
Success is a hell of a drug.
Martha's mother married Henry Fords grandson. Marthas grandfather created Firestone. Henry Ford made a deal with Marthas grandfather Harvey Firestone to put his tires on Ford vehicles out of the manufacturers plants. Thats how they met.
Came back to this today and I think Sheila is trending in the right direction.
From Detroit.... Same owner...