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This site is dedicated to my favorite football team, the Detroit Lions.
For better or worse, I have pledged to root
for my team regardless of their actions.
They may not always win, but they are always entertaining.

The Current Estimated Cap Space Available is $5,417,330*

*Not counting cap changes that have occurred the past 1 to 4 days.

The salary cap figures were originally compiled by TJLionheart of the M-Live Forum and then converted to HTML and updated by myself.:

Neither he nor I can speak for it's complete accuracy.  

The 2007 and 2008 Cap sheets are now in spreadsheet format rather then html... if you're browser can not read it please let me know so that I can do something different if necessary.

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This next link is to an excel spreadsheet that contains the history of the Lions Salary Cap.  I started it in cap year 2000 and have it up to the year 2006 (so far)... with more information and more accuracy as you go, the salaries and bonuses are as accurate as one can possibly make them, I'd say about 99.5% accurate.  The Dead Cap Hits may be a bit further off.  I hope to be able to improve on this as each future year goes by.  Here is the link to http://www.thenetrat.com/lionscaphistory.xls

My Estimated 2007 Roster, along with some alternates and the cap for all 53, click here.

My Estimated 2008 Roster / Depth Chart, click here (early editions).

My Final Estimated 2008 Roster, along with alternates and the cap for all 53, click here.

My Estimated 2009 Roster / Depth Chart, click here (early editions).

2009 HTML Version of above XLS version

NEW!  2009 Depth Chart w/o Cap figures
Multiple Tabs

The Lions Win/Loss Prediction Contest

The Lions Current 2009 Record is 0-0

Enter the 2009 Contest During the End of August but before the 1st game of the Season: Enter Here

Entries Submitted, Click Here
(Check the tabs at the bottom, the file is sorted 3 different ways)

If you don't have excel or a program that can open the above link, try the free Open Office program available at http://www.openoffice.org or go to http://www.google.com and try google documents.

NFL Mock Draft 1st Round Contest

Be this year's M-Live Forum Draft Guru

Brought to you by: Rubicon (SQL Database), Mrs. Rubicon (ASP & Design), and to a much lesser extent, myself (NetRats don't do SQL Databases or ASP very well, errr... okay, not at all).

Sign up now for 2009:  http://gorgonshire.tzo.com/mlive/draftcontest/login.asp

Detroit Lions Draft Contest

Be this year's Lions Draft Guru

Enter now for 2009:  http://gorgonshire.tzo.com/mlive/draftcontest/login.asp

Gridiron Fantasy Football

If your into fantasy football (or would like an easy one to learn on), try: http://games.espn.go.com/gridiron/frontpage and sign up for gridiron.  The private league that I created is 'mlivers' with a password of: emkowisgod, once full sign up for the second group I created called 'mlivers1' with a password of: emkowisgod 

If more then one league is involved in any year I will post the combined results from all the contests here to see who is in the lead.

Pick'em Contest

If you want to play at picking the winning teams each week, try http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/pickem/  

The 2008 private league NetRat created is Lion's Nuts, Group: 21799, Password: poundtherock, also only best 16 of 17 weeks count.  Maximum number of contestants is set to 50.

Survival Fantasy Football Contest

Same Yahoo Fantasy page for log in http://fantasysports.yahoo.com/

Click on Survival Football.  Join the 2008 league - group # 5495.  Password = colletto!    

^ (include the exclamation point) ^

Room for 50 people

Pick one team a week, if the team wins, you keep playing.  You pick a loser, you're done.  Only can pick a team once.

Salary Cap Fantasy Football Contest

Same Yahoo Fantasy page for log in http://fantasysports.yahoo.com/ or http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/salcap/group/975

Click on Salary Cap Fantasy Football.  Join the 2008 league - group # 975.  Password = lewand

Fantasy Football Paid League

Nope, don't have one, but was planning to join or create one this year... prefer 12 or more teams.  Contact me if you're interested for next year since only one did so in 2007.  Click on the link below for more information about Yahoo Fantasy Football (which I prefer over fox and nfl.com).

Yahoo! Sports Fantasy Football, complete customization, live scoring with StatTracker®

Other Contests

Links

3 Newest Links:

05-03-09: http://www.detroitlionsden.com/

05-02-09: http://cfn.scout.com/

01-04-09: http://www.sportsecyclopedia.com/nfl/det/lions.html

Forums:

Go to NetRat's Lions Forum:  http://badnetrat.proboards55.com

Go to the M-Live forum by visiting http://www.mlive.com/forums/lions/
and here's another forum created by Lisa that I visit often:  http://members5.boardhost.com/LionLair/

Also visit these forums:

Lions Talk: www.lionstalk.com

Detroit Sports Talk  http://worldcrossing.com/WebX?14@@.1ddea43b

http://www.lionsredzone.com/forumdisplay.php?f=8

Lions Fans  http://www.lions-fans.com/

http://www.detroitlionsforum.com/forums/index.php

KFFL Forum  http://www.kffl.com/forums/index.php

  Lion Backer Forum http://www.lionbacker.com/forum/index.php

Blogs:  

Mine (NetRat's)  http://thenetrat.blogspot.com/

Hondo's Blog http://spartannation.com/?cat=12

AdamJT13 Blog http://adamjt13.blog.com/

  Robert Green's http://community.foxsports.com/blogs/bob260505

DetFan1979's Blog  http://www.detfan1979.blogspot.com/

Dave Birkett http://davebirkett.blogspot.com/  is now http://oplions.blogspot.com/

News:

The Detroit Lions Home Page (http://www.detroitlions.com)

M-Live (http://www.mlive.com/lions)

Detroit Free Press (http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?Category=SPORTS01)

News Feeds http://www.detroitlionsden.com/

NFL.COM Lions Page (http://www.nfl.com/teams/DET.html)

Detroit News (http://www.detnews.com/lions/index.htm)

The Sporting News (http://www.sportingnews.com/nfl/teams/lions) (Now Fox Sports)

KFFL News (http://www.kffl.com/hotw/nfl) 

The Lions Insiders (http://lions.scout.com/index.html)

Sports Illustrated (http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/football/nfl/teams/lions)

ESPN (http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/clubhouse?team=det )

HBO (http://www.hbo.com/infl/)

USA Today  http://www.usatoday.com/sports/football/default.htm

The Lions Underground (http://www.lionsunderground.org)

A Site with many links and other info (http://football.about.com/)

Twominutewarning.com (http://www.twominutewarning.com/det.htm)

Lions.rivals.com (http://lions.rivals.com)

http://www.lionbacker.com/

Allsports.com (http://www.allsports.com/nfl/lions)

1America.com (http://www.1america.com/nfl/lions.htm)

The Lions Redzone http://www.lionsredzone.com

Players Sites:

Cliff Avril DE

Andre Fluellen DE/DT

Kevin Smith RB

Drew Stanton QB

Other Fans Sites:

Lions Den http://lions.mostvaluablenetwork.com/

Scott's Detroit Lion Page (http://home.twmi.rr.com/detroitlions)

gebu40's Detroit Lion Page (http://www.geocities.com/gebu20/detroitlions.html)

Miguel's Unofficial Patriots Cap Pages http://www.patscap.com/capsources.html

   The Fire Millen site http://www.firemillen.com/

Draft Sites:

Scout.com  http://profootball.scout.com/a.z?s=127&p=9&c=12&nid=83&lnid=124&yr=2009

  Mel Kipers Page   http://www.melkiper.com/pub.html

http://www.walterfootball.com/draft2009.php

My Favorite Draft Site http://www.thehuddlereport.com/

  Consensus Draft Service - a Great Draft site  http://condraft.com/rankings/top-100/index.html

QI Sports http://qisports.com/nfldraft.html

Draft Tek  http://www.drafttek.com

Walters Football http://walterfootball.com/

The Scout's Notebook http://www.scoutsnotebook.com/modules.php?name=mockdraft0708

Draft Ace http://www.draftace.com/draft2009/mockdraftround1.htm

Football Futures  http://www.footballsfuture.com/2009/nflmockdraft.html

http://thefootballexpert.com/mockdraftdatabase.html  (list of many mocks)

East Coast Sports http://www.eastcoastsportsnews.com/09draft.html

Draft King http://www.draftking.com/nfl/2009/mockdraft.shtml

FootballExpert (Cox) http://thefootballexpert.com/coxmockdraft.html

FFToolBox (Ricky) http://www.fftoolbox.com/nfl_draft/2008/2008_nfl_mock_draft.cfm?writer=13

NFL Draft Countdown http://www.nfldraftcountdown.com/sub/mockdraft.html

Great Blue North http://www.gbnreport.com/

Also check http://www.google.com/Top/Sports/Football/American/NFL/NFL_Draft/

College Football News http://cfn.scout.com/

Free Agency Sites:

 Scout.com Ranked http://profootball.scout.com/a.z?s=127&p=9&c=12&nid=83&lnid=83&yr=2009

  The Red Zone   http://www.theredzone.org/2008/freeagents/

  http://www.footballsfuture.com/freeagents.html

  ESPN 2009 Free Agents (need insider status to get rankings)

  Ranked Free Agents   http://www.draftdaddy.com/nfldraft/freeagentdefense.cfm

  KFFL   http://www.kffl.com/static/nfl/features/freeagents/fa.php?y=2009

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The 2007 Free Agent Worksheet (includes who signed with whom, who stayed unsigned, and other information, click here for the file).  Courtesy of Matt Williams.

Fantasy Football Sites:

FF Spiral Fantasy Football Site  http://www.ffspiral.com/

Fantasy Football Mock Drafts 24/7  http://fantasyfootballcalculator.com/

Real Time Fantasy Sports http://www.rtsports.com/

Depth Charts all 32 teams http://www.rotoworld.com/content/Depth_NFL.aspx?sport=NFL

Informational Sites:

Info on all players, all teams, all years http://www.pro-football-reference.com/

Draft History Info (http://www.drafthistory.com)

Stats, stats and more Stats http://www.footballoutsiders.com/about.php

Stats / Splits (http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/football/nfl/players.html)

  http://www.nfl.com/stats  Updated during the game, great stats info on QB, RB, WR, and even Kickers.

NFLPA.ORG, Site to look up players   http://www.nflpa.org/Resources/ActivePlayerSearch.aspx

  http://asp.usatoday.com/sports/football/nfl/salaries/teamdetail.aspx?team=11&year=2007

The curse of Bobby Lane  http://www.curseofbobbylayne.com/

  Ask the Commish - Cap, Franchise Tags, and other info http://www.askthecommish.com/salarycap/

  RotoWorld http://rotoworld.com/content/Home_NFL.aspx

Advanced NFL Stats  http://www.advancednflstats.com/

  http://www.sportsecyclopedia.com/nfl/det/lions.html

Let me know if you have something to add:

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Lions Humor?

What happens when you have

1) nothing to do
2) a sharp knife
3) a large lime
4) a patient cat
5) too much tequila
6) and it's football season?

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Someone sent me this by email, I don't know who to credit for it.  

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Will the Lions look good this year?

Or will they have a slightly different look about them?

(every time I look at this poor cat I crack up laughing)

For information on this type of "Lion Cut" shave, visit http://www.snopes.com/photos/lioncut.asp