Detroit Lions: To End Losing Culture, a Winner Needs To Be Brought in at the Top

November 26, 2010   ·   Greg Eno   ·   Jump to comments

Leo Durocher said it, though they got The Lip's word cockeyed a little bit. Still, the spirit is there.
You probably think that Durocher, the legendary baseball manager, said, "Nice guys finish last."
Not quite.
Leo, managing the Brooklyn Dodgers at the time (1946), was talking about his cousins from Manhattan, the New York Giants. Leo noted that the Giants were full of nice guys, like Mel Ott, but that they'd finish last anyways, as was their wont in those days.
"Nice guys," Durocher said of the Giants. "Nice guys; finish last," he added.
Thus was born "Nice guys finish last."
But I digress—as is MY wont.
Lions coach Jim Schwartz is, by all accounts, a nice enough fellow. So is his boss, Marty Mayhew, who hasn't done or said anything to indicate that he's anything but a decent sort.
I'm sure the Lions players are a bunch of dudes that you wouldn't mind hanging out with. There don't appear to be any bad apples among the bunch. The police bl...

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