Regarding Bill Simmons’ dumb tweet about Detroit

I normally stay away from chastising media members and journalist for stupid articles and opinions. But watching the Pistons/Celtics game last night while pecking away at my computer, I came across this tweet from ESPN.com writer Bill Simmons.

Allow me for a second to preface the following couple of paragraphs.

Bill Simmons is a talented journalist and probably the best sports writer in America today. I also realize that Twitter is as informal as it comes and when you have as many followers as he does, you’re bound to piss off a handful of people.

But Simmons’ Detroit bias is well-known. In fact, I don’t expect him to be fair and balanced when he lived through the 80s Celtics/Pistons clashes. Speaking as somebody who lived through that from a Detroit perspective, I couldn’t dream to write about Boston objectively.

But this tweet was so amazingly stupid, it hurt my brain.

Coming into this season, the Pistons have missed the playoffs twice since the mid 90s. Twice. They reached the Conference finals 6 years in a row and have a NBA title in the last decade.

Compare that to the Detroit Lions who have ONE PLAYOFF WIN IN THE LAST 50 YEARS. They have won two games in the last two seasons combined. The fan base is so beaten down that most Lions games this past season were blacked out. Having not sniffed a playoff berth in over a decade, the fans have decided to just stop spending money on their team.

I was at Ford Field for the opener this past season and it’s fair to say that the fans around me were more interested in that chick fight than the game itself.  I’ll even go as far as making this absolutely absurd but true statement

Of the 25 most depressing things that have happened in my life, the Detroit Lions account for about half.

That should give you an idea of how bad things are for Lions fans and how thankful we are that the Detroit Pistons are 10x the franchise that shitty team in Ford Field could ever be.

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