Easy To Mock Kitna's Prediction, But Why?

The easiest thing to do is laugh. To mock. To roll your eyes. To go searching for Kool-Aid mustaches on their lips. In recent fits of boosterism and bravado, undaunted by the pearls of history's wisdom, Lions quarterback Jon Kitna and receiver Mike Furrey have put quantitative labels on their expectations for their football team this autumn. "I think we can win 10 games, at least," Kitna has said on more than one occasion about the 2007 season. One of the first people he told that to was me. I was interviewing him wayyy back in March for my former employer, when he laid it on me. The question was, "If you could say one thing to Lions fans about 2007, what would it be?" That's when Kitna, fearlessly, made the 10-win prediction. I reminded him that his words would be printed. "That doesn't scare me one bit," he told me. Not long after, Kitna repeated the assertion at Lions HQ in Allen Park, during one of those mini-camps. Then it s...