Introduction: 

It's a good thing I like challenges because there is nothing more challenging than being a Lions Fan!  (Those of you reading this who are also fans know exactly what I mean).  But I got to tell you, I think that Matt & Marty Mooch Marinelli (hey, I have the right to change my mind, don't I?) are building a quality team, but not everyone agrees and that should make for some diverse estimates of their abilities.  I thought it would be fun to post the beliefs of fellow forum members before the season begins just to see how well we can foresee the unforeseeable, hence the prediction contest on the right.

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Contests:

 Earn the title "M-Live Forum Draft Guru":

Enter your 2006 Mock (1st Round) Draft Here

^ Enter and Win ^

2005 Winner & M-Live Forum Draft Guru = Rick Gosselin

2004 Winner & M-Live Forum Draft Guru = OrigNorm

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).

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2006 Lions Draft Contest

Be the 2006 Lions Draft Guru

View the 2006 Leader Board       Enter Contest or edit your choices

2006 Winners & Lions Draft Guru's =  Rubicon, Smokeypotamus, & TylerDurdan

View the 2005 Contest Results

Winner & 2005 Lions Draft Gurus = BobBarker & Nooner2

View the 2004 Contest Results

Winner & 2004 Lions Draft Guru = Nerv2622

Draft 2003 Contest Results - <click here>  

(Winner & 2003 Lions Draft Guru = DieHard)

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Prediction Contest (see right hand side)

Current Record 2006:  3 - 13

(Red = Out, Yellow = 1 Game from Out, Green = Still Safe, Silver = Done)

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2005 Winner = Sprawl with 5-11, 4th in Division, 7th Draft Pick (record = 5-11, 3rd in Division, 9th Draft Pick)

Year 2004's closest guess (record = 6-10, 3rd in Division, 10th Draft Pick): 

NyTrane with 6-10, 3rd in Division, 8th Draft Pick

Honorable mention to:
LAlionfan with 6-10, 3rd in Division, 6th draft pick;
donzz with 6-10, 3rd in Division, 20th draft pick;

Year 2003's closest guess (record = 5-11, 4th in Division, 6th round Draft Pick):
SanDiegoLion with 5-11, 7th draft pick
Honorable mention to:
harringtonfan1130 with 5-11, 3rd in Division, 5th draft pick;
Katmandoo with 5-11, 3rd in Division, 8th draft pick;
Spoon with 5-11, 3rd in Division, 8th draft pick;
Teenerfan with 5-11, 3rd in Division, 10th draft pick.

Year 2002's closest guess (record = 3-13): REPENT & huck at 3-13 each.

Year 2001's closest guess (record = 2-14): wolvy & the_iceman54 at 7-9 each.
(No one was even close)

Year 2000's closest guess (record = 9-7): Torey Luvullo & Mrs Xer at 9-7 each.

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Pick'em Contest

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

The private league NetRat created is NetRat's Nuts, Group: 18900, Password: poundtherock, also only best 16 of 17 weeks count.

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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 Sid created is 'mlivers' with a password: emkowisgod (if full, try 'Group: mlivers2' or 'Group: mlivers3' with the same password).  I will post the combined results from all the contests here to see who is in the lead.

 Link To Current Standings 

2004 & 2005 Winner = Boo urns

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Survival Football Contest

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

Click on Survival Football.  Join the group # 2271.  Password = madmartz

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.

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Salary Cap Fantasy Football Contest

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

Click on Salary Cap Fantasy Football.  Join the group # 4632.  Password = lewand

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Win Prizes up to $1 million by entering these contests

http://games.si.cnn.com/signup/login.asp

The public league name for both is MLive (no password needed)

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Link to listing of my Fantasy Football League Rosters

 Lions Salary Cap Information 

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

Click here to view the 2006 information, click back to return here.

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

Click here to view the 2005 information.

Click here to view the 2004 information.

Click here to view the 2003 information.

For the 2002 version, click here.

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Estimated Lions Depth Chart (Roster) for 2006

2005: Got 48 players right again!  No improvement.

2004: Got 48 players right (out of 53 of course), 4 full months in advance.  Not too bad if I don't say so myself.

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Free Agent Info

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Draft Info

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Lion Rosters & Draft Picks 

(by Shasta21): 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003

with a little of the "where are they now" included...

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Links

(newest addition is in the "other fans sites" section - "http://www.patscap.com/capsources.html")

News Sites:

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

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

Detroit Free Press (http://www.freep.com/sports/lions)

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 Detroit News (http://www.kffl.com/team/16/NFL) (now a pay site)

The Lions Insiders (http://lions.theinsiders.com)

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/)

Clips of the week, etc (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

Forums:

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

The Lion Lair Forum (http://members5.boardhost.com/LionLair/)

Choose the NFC North forum  http://www.gridironfans.com/forum/index.php

Another Lions Forum: www.lionstalk.com

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

Detroit Lions Forum  http://www.detroitlionsforum.com/forums/

Internet Broadcasts:

http://home.earthlink.net/~verylongaddress/football/

Jokes / Humor:

Look here for a laugh  (http://info.detnews.com/postgamepayne/index.cfm)

Informational Sites:

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

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

Radio Stations that carry the game  (http://radioroadtrip.com/cgi-bin/detroitlions.asp?NetworkId=44)

Joey Harrington Stats / Splits (http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/football/nfl/players/5889/passing_splits.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/Members/main.asp?subPage=Active+Player+Search

Shopping Sites:

CLICK HERE for over 3,000 authentic sports collectibles!

NFL Team Gear - Get it now at SportsFanfare.com!

TeamStore.com 

Shop Your Favorite Sports at OnlineSports.com 

50 different colors, design your perfect Quad Tech Earguard WWSPORT.COM

  Join SPORTSBETTING.COM Now!

Other Fans Sites:

Lions Blog 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

Draft Sites:

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

Fantasy Football Sites:

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

Let me know if you have something to add:

Got a Lions Web Site to Share?  Email the Link to Me.

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LionBacker Topsites List

Opinions & Commentaries

2006 Wins: Packers, Rams, Bills, Jets, 49ers, Cardinals, Dolphins, Vikings, Bears

2006 Losses: Seahawks, Bears, Vikings, Falcons, Patriots, Packers, Cowboys

Total Prediction 9-7

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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

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Contact Me

Please Contact Me by Email Only

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The 2006 Contest is closed, please enter next year:

To be included: Email your prediction for the lions this year before the first game of the 2006 season (see above).  Email address are kept strictly confidential and will never be used for anything.

NetRat: 9-7, 2nd in Division, 20th Draft Pick.

Mrs. NetRat: 10-6, 2nd in Division, 16th Draft Pick

TheSoonerPride: 7-9, 3rd in Division, 13th Draft Pick

TheeDr: 7-9, 3rd in Division, 14th Draft Pick

BlackGuard: 7-9, 2nd in Division, 15th Draft Pick

Proof: 7-9, 3rd in Division, 7th Draft Pick

BlueLionsFan: 7-9, 3rd in Division, 15th Draft Pick

Fordson85: 6-10, 2nd in Division, 13th Draft Pick

KarlSweetan: 6-10, 3rd in Division, 12th Draft Pick

Megcor: 9-7, 2nd in Division, 16th Draft Pick

Jekil: 6-10, 3rd in Division, 8th Draft Pick

rj2ko: 4-12, 4th in Division, 3rd Draft Pick

Nytrane: 6-10, 3rd in Division, 9th Draft Pick

Rubicon: 7-9, 2nd in Division, 13th Draft Pick

Flintownbob1: 7-9, 3rd in Division, 12th Draft Pick

Cincy23: 5-11, 3rd in Division, 5th Draft Pick

Spoon: 6-10, 3rd in Division, 8th Draft Pick

Sandman: 10-6, 1st in Division, 25th Draft Pick

TJLionheart: 5-11, 3rd in Division, 7th Draft Pick

Wolvinator: 5-11, 3rd in Division, 5th Draft Pick

rickguy45: 7-9, 3rd in Division, 14th Draft Pick

RoadKing: 7-9, 3rd in Division, 18th Draft Pick

CrookidBiz: 6-10, 3rd in Division, 13th Draft Pick

mnmn: 8-8, 2nd in Division, 16th Draft Pick

QBCoach: 9-7, 1st in Division, 22nd Draft Pick

GVWLION: 9-7, 2nd in Division, 18th Draft Pick

alum02: 6-10, 3rd in Division, 11th Draft Pick

donzz: 5-11, 3rd in Division, 6th Draft Pick

Mose: 7-9, 3rd in Division, 13th Draft Pick

LeftyLion: 7-9, 3rd in Division, 13th Draft Pick

Shade: 5-11, 4th in Division, 6th Draft Pick

NDSUKurt: 8-8, 2nd in Division, 14th Draft Pick

TyroneBigumz: 7-9, 3rd in Division, 16th Draft Pick

Glions: 9-7, 1st in Division, 21st Draft Pick

Hercules88: 8-8, 3rd in Division, 16th Draft Pick

Nuf: 11-5, 1st in Division, 27th Draft Pick

Morlok: 8-8, 2nd in Division, 18th Draft Pick

Stoney6: 3-13

MTLionsFan: 6-10, 3rd in Division, 9th Draft Pick

REPENT: 3-13, 4th in Division, 1st Draft Pick

Marinated: 7-9, 2nd in Division, 14th Draft Pick

ScaredSheep: 10-6, 1st in Division, 21st Draft Pick

MisterDuck: 9-7, 1st in Division, 21st Draft Pick

TylerDurdan: 7-9, 1st in Division, 17th Draft Pick

Angelus: 7-9, 3rd in Division, 11th Draft Pick

badtorey: 6-10, 3rd in Division, 11th Draft Pick

LionsFan57: 8-8, 2nd in Division, 18th Draft Pick

Cutback: 8-8, 2nd in Division, 16th Draft Pick

LionFanInLA: 6-10, 3rd in Division, 11th Draft Pick

DCgrrrl: 8-8, 2nd in Division, 18th Draft Pick

CALionFan: 9-7, 1st in Division

freelion: 8-8, 3rd in Division, 15th Draft Pick

TPC: 4-12, 4th in Division, 3rd Draft Pick

Tigereyescsy: 10-6, 1st in Division, 26th Draft Pick

sprawl: 6-10, 3rd in Division, 16th Draft Pick

conversion02: 7-9, 3rd in Division, 16th Draft Pick

SLICK: 8-8, 2nd in Division, 14th Draft Pick

Waywardlion: 7-9, 3rd in Division, 11th Draft Pick

SgtRock: 10-6, 1st in Division, 24th Draft Pick

Arges: 4-12, 4th in Division, 6th Draft Pick

styx: 4-12, 4th in Division, 4th Draft Pick

mdlion: 11-5, 1st in Division, 27th Draft Pick

LionDen: 8-8, 2nd in Division, 18th Draft Pick

ChicagoLion: 12-4, 1st in Division, 29th Draft Pick

SanDiegoLion: 5-11, 4th in Division, 7th Draft Pick

Milty: 11-5, 1st in Division, 28th Draft Pick

Tom Kowalski: 9-7

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