Another Week, Another Lions Win, Another Awesome Dan Campbell Postgame Locker Room Speech
I don't know if there has ever been another NFL coaching hire that has been as thoroughly enjoyable for people that aren't fans of that coach's team than Dan Campbell with the Lions. It started out with the knee cap biting quotes, continued with the IDGAF calls of going for it on 4th Down, and gets an exclamation point watching these locker room speeches every Victory Monday/Tuesday/Friday. I suppose Rex Ryan had a similar run when he was dropping f bombs and going viral for having a foot fetish. But Rex always seemed to have a little bit of fuck you to everyone outside of the Jets building, where Campbell only seems to care about the guys in the Lions building.
Regardless, I can't get enough of these Lions locker room videos. To be honest, I can't get enough of any locker room celebration videos because they are are always so much fun and would watch a full thread of them on Twitter or compilation on YouTube every single week.
The Lions are currently the gold standard of these celebrations. Just dudes telling their teammates how much they love them after kicking the shit out of another team for 60 minutes. It doesn't matter if you are a former number 1 pick that was discarded by Sean McVay, a kicker that got his big break after going viral in the UFL, or an offensive lineman puking his guts out in the garbage can like poor ol' Skip. The Lions players are tightly wound together like a fist, smash that fist into their opponents skull during the games, then pat their teammates on the back with it after the game as they hug following yet another W. That's what football is all about, men! Whoops, I'm sorry that I'm starting to write like Dan Campbell talks, but you have to understand I haven't had exciting football in my life for months now as a Giants fan and that dude has everything you want in a football coach. Grit, love for his players, and absolutely gigantic balls that don't shrivel up in the biggest moments.
Hopefully we get a bunch more of these speeches the rest of the way because God knows the people of Detroit deserve their first Super Bowl, and to be honest I'm starting to get reeeeeal worried about the Eagles making another run to the Big Game™ and I feel like I may need the Lions playing at home throughout the NFC playoffs to stop that wagon from coming into the station yet again.