Absolutely Heartbreaking Loss Mired By Penalties, Injury

There are a number of different ways to look at the Lions heartbreaking overtime loss to the Jets today. The 2-6 Lions, who have been competitive in each of their games, with one of their losses, being an example of absolute robbery (The Bears), and all but one of them (the Minnesota loss) being within one touchdown score, right up until the end of the game. The Oxford English Dictionary defines optimism as having “hopefulness and confidence about the future or successful outcome of something; a tendency to take a favourable or hopeful view.” That being said, the Lions have been dogged by their continued sloppy, undisciplined play all season. If you have been paying close attention, it was obvious that eventually such a heavily penalized team was going to grasp defeat from the jaws of victory. As a Lion, you bitterly hate having this kind of loss happen while playing against one of the league’s best teams, on your home field, when many doubted your ability to...