Hey Rumblers, are you ready for some football? Of course you are! Tonight the Detroit Lions are in Maryland to take on the Baltimore Ravens in a game that many view as a preview of Super Bowl LX. As we
all know, there’s a lot of football to be played between now and next February.
Right now, the Buffalo Bills are among the best teams in the NFL, having defeated these Ravens 41-40 in Week 1 thanks to an incredible comeback in the final minutes. Baltimore rebounded last week to win 41-17 against the Cleveland Browns, a team that just dented the armor of the Green Bay Packers. It’s a week-to-week league, after all, but the 1-1 Ravens are going to continue playing the role of problem on Buffalo’s path to greatness.
The Lions are also 1-1, losing to the Packers in an ugly effort before righting the ship against the Chicago Bears with a 52-21 win. Detroit lost lead coordinators on both sides of the ball, with Ben Johnson (former OC) and Aaron Glenn (former DC) heading for first-time head-coaching opportunities. That won’t stop head coach Dan Campbell from getting everything possible out of his roster.
What’s clear is that the Ravens and Lions can both score plenty of points in a matter of minutes. The best outcome this evening would be for Baltimore to fall further in the AFC standings with a 1-2 record. Detroit is an easy team to root for any week they don’t play the Bills, given the lack of success the Lions had until 2023. As a franchise, they have four pre-merger NFL Championships, won in 1935, 1952, 1953, and 1957.
As for tonight, we’re all Lions fans! Detroit hits the field as underdogs, but dismissing them this evening would be unwise. Baltimore isn’t invincible, though it sure feels that way most of the time thanks to Lamar Jackson, Derrick Henry, and Kyle Hamilton.
Perhaps one day the Bills will honor the franchise’s first uniforms, which were obtained from the Lions by Ralph C. Wilson Jr. as he got Buffalo’s AFL team off the ground. If you’ve never seen those uniforms before, take a look:
Be sure to join your fellow Rumblers in the comments section below in this, your open thread for all of tonight’s action on Monday Night Football. As always, be kind to one another — and in all things… Go Bills (and tonight, Go Lions)!
