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listen unbelievable The Unbelievable our our fans are I mean this was crazy we came out I told our our players before we came out and I said man do you understand th this is the best environment you're going to you're going to find in a preseason game for sure and we're not even to the regular season yet guys so uh you talk about home field advantage you can only imagine what this is going to be like in two weeks from now on Sunday Night Like This is uh this is the best like our fans are the best and that's we just got to keep doing our job we got to keep winning and give them give them something to cheer about cuz they're going to do their part that was amazing I mean it it really was they say you like to take the home crowd out of the game and you know winning against the home team will do that the flip side is the better the home team does the louder they tend to get and that was that preseason game against the Steelers it was from what I could tell watching it on TV pretty damn loud it felt like regular season big third down play when Russell Wilson made the throw to George Pickins and I think cemented his status as qb1 for the Steelers but the Lions fans love this they've been waiting years for it and they are all in with it sold out regular season tickets for the second year in a row which is significant because they jacked up the prices after the 2023 season supply and demand finally applies in Detroit to something other than cars yeah it's exciting for the Lions exciting for Detroit mike always root for those teams that have never won a Super Bowl I just want everybody to experience that and there's a handful of them now in the NFL and this is one of the teams obviously I love Dan Campbell too but this is one of the teams that I'm going to be rooting for this year to to get it done and win their first well you weren't rooting for the Vikings to win their first Super Bowl back in 1975 when Drew Pearson shoved down Nate Wright because the Cowboys already had their Super Bowl they won Super Bowl yeah six was it six it was six Super Bowl five wait a minute Super Bowl six four two three four five six yes you're right six one five how about that take that I've been wrong about the last five or six things we've disagreed on it feels good to win one for a change all right Matthew Stafford it would feel good for him to win one for a change in Detroit he lost a lot there while he was with the team he went back as a member of the Rams and lost in the postseason here he is on feeding off the booze that he expects from the forward field crowd yeah I feel the crowd 100% um motivating factor love it uh you know I'm I'm one of the guys that walks into the you know opposing Stadium everybody has their headphones on I don't I want to hear all of it I want to smell it I want to feel like it's football and um that's part of football especially going to an away game so that uh that stuff you know just motivates me that hat with the black logo looks a little Honolulu blue ish frankly for the LA Rams and the Lions have new jerseys that don't really look Honolulu blue they look like the Seahawks throwback jerseys that they're going to wear this weekend so I'm disappointed that a town so far from Honolulu that adopted Honolulu blue as the football team's cers is deviating from the Honolulu blue I know that's very important to the outcome of the game this weekend Mike this is one of the rare win-win trades in NFL history Stafford won a Super Bowl his first year with the Rams and then those three draft picks and golf have the Lions as one of the favorites this year so it this trade worked out for both teams they got what they wanted out of it and I'm surprised that the Rams were able to rebuild as quickly as they did they went Allin in that Super Bowl year and then I thought well it's going to be a while before they ever have a chance to go back but they've done it very quickly despite not having some of those draft picks and they're right in it they they have an opportunity and they draft so well at the receiver position that it keeps that offense firing at a high level they'll be there again this gonna be a good game win-win with the caveat because the Rams were offloading their trash onto the Lions they tucked a first round pick into the trade package to get rid of the Jared go contract so it's been far more of a win I mean it's been small win big win small win for the Rams because they got a Super Bowl but they kind of sold their soul in the process and who knows how they're going to be this year with Aaron Donald and injury issues already have popped up for the Lions even though they haven't gotten to a Super Bowl it's got that Vibe of they're laying the foundation for sustained success they picked up two first round picks and a third round pick and a quarterback that felt like he was going to be a placeholder for a couple of years and it's like well wait a minute wait a minute no this is this is our guy and 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