It's been a long time since Detroit Lions' fans could say their defense let alone the team has been walking around with a swagger. Now it would appear the Lions and their swagger have struck fear in not only the opposing team but the outside media too. Everyone outside of Detroit wants to label our defense as "dirty" or "classless" when in reality they aren't.
You say Ndamukong Suh is dirty, well then prove it. I'll give you last year's preseason hit on Jake Delhomme but other than that Suh has been a victim of his own strength. Getting flagged for unnecessary roughness for pushing Jay Cutler in his back last year was joke. Go ahead and tell me this was dirty, if you think that's dirty then football might not be for you.
Teams like the Atlanta Falcons have cried about Suh and Cliff Avril taunted Matt Ryan when he got hurt even saying Avril was kicking Ryan's feet as he cringed in pain. In the lead up to the Week 8 matchup with the Broncos, NFL.com posted a picture of Suh and Tim Tebow. The headline read "Good vs Evil", if the league if willing to give you this kind of cred might as well take it.
That's exactly what they did too as they made that game a nightmare then the controversy swirled again. Stephen Tulloch sacked Tebow and then struck Tebow's prayerful "pose" also known as "Tebowing". Let's get one thing straight, one, Tebow isn't the first player to drop to a knee and say a quick prayer. Two, Tulloch mocked the ridiculous movement not the player and if he was mocking the player that's fine too. Tebow is being paid to play this game just like Tulloch so why not mock the guy being made out to be the second coming of Christ and the greatest thing to football since the forward pass.
Tebow wouldn't be the first thing the Lions have mocked this year. Week 1, Tony Scheffler celebrated his touchdown against the Buccaneers by pretending to be a swashbuckling pirate. Week 2, Scheffler this time mocks the Chiefs by sending out smoke signals after a touchdown and Roary the mascot was temporarily blamed for Jamaal Charles tearing his ACL. Weeks 3 and 4, people took offense to Jim Schwartz's fist pump he threw after his team completed second half comebacks from 20 and 24 points down. Week 6 people questioned why Schwartz wouldn't just take Harbaugh's post game back slap and shove and let it go, here's a question, would you have been fine with it? Week 7 the Falcons cried like babies and falsely accuse the Lions of dirty play. And now Week 8, we had Tulloch and Scheffler both go "Tebowing" and Scheffler even threw in a Mile High Salute.
If this makes the Lions "dirty" and "classless" so be it but the Lions need to embrace it and run with it. They looked completely different this past week after that fire had been lit underneath them as opposed to Weeks 6 and 7 when they lost to San Francisco and Atlanta and looked to be swaggerless. People don't like change, they like having the Lions as the laughingstock of the NFL and now that the Lions are willing to hit you in the mouth and let you know about it people are scared. People outside of Detroit should get acquainted with this because these Lions aren't backing down from it.
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