Fire Millen!

[Dante2004 0]

I certainly didn't start this, but as a fellow Lion fan that would like to see the team win again sometime soon, I thought I would pass it on. This is from the "Fire Millen" Myspace.com page.

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PRESS RELEASE

Contact: Herbert Nicholl Jr FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Email: lionsfan40@yahoo.com 9 A.M. EDT, December 11, 2006

Walk-Out Announced for Detroit Lions Game

Detroit, Michigan December 11, 2006: Numerous Lions forumite Herbert Nicholl Jr (www.geocities.com/lionsfan40/page5.html) has officially announced an "Walk-Out" as a means of protest of the Detroit Lions December 24, 2006 football game against the Chicago Bears. This protest is in direct response to the refusal of Team Owner and Chairman William Clay Ford to fire President and CEO Matt Millen. The Detroit Lions under President and CEO Matt Millen have failed to live up to the standards of a professional football team and have the worst record of any team in the National Football League since his hire on January 9, 2001.

As a means of protest, Honolulublue is asking fans to walk out or no show the December 24, 2006 Detroit Lions' home game. Walking out serves the following purposes.

Send the message that enough is enough and that change at the top is needed. President and CEO Matt Millen has had six seasons to turn the team around and promised that he wanted to win and wanted to win now, he has failed to do so. Has drafted multiple busts every season since taking over as President and CEO. Has hired/fired three different coaches, and none have shown success. The Detroit Lions under President and CEO Matt Millen are 23-70 overall and are 5-41 on the road. No General Manager in NFL history has been able to keep his job this long with a record of such futility as Millen has.

This protest calls for the fans of the Detroit Lions to "walk-out" of the Christmas Eve game with eight minutes and fifty seven secondsremaining in the second quarter. Everyone should meet in the main atrium by "The Roar and More" and with three minutes and fifty seven seconds remaining, everyone that is there start chanting in unison our rallying cry, "Fire Millen!" Then at halftime, everyone involved, orderly and politely walk out of the stadium to show Team Owner and Chairman William Clay Ford their disgust with his inaction. This action is directed at the management of the team and not the players on the field which I will continue to support.

For more information on the "Walk-Out," please contact me at lionsfan40@yahoo.com

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[kovalchuk71 212]

The walk out is stupid. YOur still paying for your tickets and the team is making money.

[RadioGaGa 162]

The walk out is stupid. YOur still paying for your tickets and the team is making money.

The sound overpowering the "Fire Millen" Chant will be the owner laughing all the way to the bank.

[prenny207 1]

sure the tickets have already been purchased. rather then a walkout, it should simply be nobody show up. NOT a single person attend the game, it will at least send some signal to the owner. 60,000 people not purchasing food/drinks/souveneirs... that is where it would hurt the owner. i will add that if management/coaches can be fired for not perfoming, i think that ownership that can not produce a winning product for over 40 years should be forced to sell. it is embarassing to the league and more so the town. hey, at least they run their team like their company...

[Oberon 0]

People walking out en masse, chanting "Fire Millen!" - how will this be different than any other Lions game?

[kosydar 0]

Keep in mind its Harrington's fault that the Lions suck to this day.

[PH_Hockey2 4]

Keep in mind its Harrington's fault that the Lions suck to this day.

Thats not all true, You can't place all the blame on Harrington. I mean Harrington is having a decent year for the Dolphins. A lot of it had to do with coaching and management. It tells you something when a QB goes form throwing no TD passes on Thanksgiving and then throwing 3 and whipping your former team's ass.

[mack 44]

People in Detroit are just overreacting. All they need to do is draft a couple more WRs and treat their best player (once they get one) like an indentured servant and they'll be right as rain.

[capes921 0]

Keep in mind its Harrington's fault that the Lions suck to this day.

exactly, give him an offensive line and a little bit of time to get used to the NFL before he's getting ran over every game. Harrington said it himself on the radio after the Thanksgiving game "A lions quarterback and red wings goalie are the hardest positions in all of detroit"...both get a bad rap when the people around them aren't chipping in.

[kosydar 0]

I was being facetious. I've grown up in Eugene and been a Duck forever, I was a huge Joey fan long before he ever played for the Lions. Its just ridiculous how much people blamed him for everything that was wrong in Detroit.

[willy0314 0]

why dont you guys just brown bag it like the fans did here in buffalo last year. It sent a pretty clear message to Mr wilson, he came out in a press conference and basically said so himself.

[LkptTiger 1]

...and, essentially, nothing has changed.

The Sabres are better, though.