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Fan Pleads For Sheila To Keep The Band Together
WXYT-FM / 97.1 The Ticket
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1/10/2025
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00:00
Guys, thanks for having me on here. I don't want it to get lost in the sauce.
00:04
Sheila is the foundation, the fundamental reason for the instigation, all this change we all spent.
00:11
And you guys have spent a lot longer time than I have rooting for this team, hoping for success.
00:15
I don't want it to get lost in the sauce that Sheila is the reason for all this.
00:19
And you guys play the drop all the time. It's hilarious.
00:22
The first time she ever got up in front of the fans and to bring Calvin and Barry back
00:25
and put Calvin in the Ring of Honor, to get in front of those fans
00:29
when her mother and father never did for decades,
00:32
and just wear the merciless impatience of the fans as they booed her up there.
00:38
She deserves a lot of commendation for having the courage to get up there and do that,
00:43
to stick to her guns when things didn't go right at the start.
00:46
And I'm asking you right now, Sheila Ford Hamp, please pay these men as much as a head coach.
00:53
Keep them around. Last I checked on Google, there is no salary cap for coaches.
00:58
And they're the most sought-after coaches in the league.
01:00
Make them feel valued. Make them stay here.
01:03
I'm saying this from the bottom of my heart, guys.
01:05
We have a dynastic opportunity. Let's make it work. Thank you, guys.
01:08
It'd be awesome, and we'd all be on board.
01:11
It's not our money to spend, and of course, we are allowed to spend it.
01:15
I'd love to keep them, but here's what you can't maybe put a price on sometimes,
01:19
and that's what somebody's ambition is.
01:21
You don't know what their lifelong goals are and their lifelong dreams are.
01:24
And if it's to be a head football coach in the NFL, and that opportunity is there for them,
01:29
cheer them on and go get that.
01:32
Of course you'd like them to stay, and if money is the deciding factor,
01:37
then let money be the deciding factor, I guess.
01:40
But you can't stop somebody from reaching for their goals.
01:45
No, and I made her my champ at a weekend yesterday,
01:50
and I go back to the date was October.
01:54
This doesn't feel like that long ago.
01:56
It feels like eons ago, and yet on the calendar it's not that long ago.
01:59
I'm looking at a story from October 26th of 2022, okay?
02:06
And her quote is,
02:07
We've got 11 more games to go, so I just don't want to ruin it.
02:10
Push the panic button. Give up the ship.
02:12
Because I think we've got the right people in place to pull this off,
02:15
and I truly believe that.
02:17
And I wouldn't say that if I didn't believe it.
02:21
And this was her stepping in front of the media.
02:25
Another quote,
02:26
We're going to turn this thing around the right way.
02:29
This is October 26th of 2022.
02:32
And then they went 8-3.
02:34
At the time, the Detroit Lions were 1-5.
02:38
And lost the next game.
02:39
Lost the next game.
02:40
And then went 8-2.
02:41
Yep.
02:42
Then 12-5.
02:44
15-2.
02:45
And they have been an absolute juggernaut ever since.
02:48
And, you know, she,
02:51
I've told this story before,
02:53
so I apologize if it's repeat for some people,
02:56
but, you know, when she put Calvin,
02:59
I think it was when they put Calvin into the Ring of Honor,
03:02
and she went out there to introduce him,
03:04
and she got booed.
03:05
Oh, yeah.
03:06
And I was told that, you know, she left,
03:09
she stood there and took it, left,
03:11
walked underneath, and you could tell it hurt.
03:14
Now, whether that meant there were tears in her eyes,
03:16
or whether, I don't know.
03:17
I don't know.
03:18
I just was told by an observer that was there
03:20
that they said you could tell that it hurt her.
03:22
And she kind of expected it was coming.
03:25
But it was her job as the owner of the team
03:28
to go out and to properly honor Calvin.
03:30
And let's just say that this team is on the brink
03:34
of bringing her cheers.
03:36
I mean, like, perhaps never, ever before, right?
03:42
No.
03:43
And, look, you know how I feel about her as an owner,
03:46
that I absolutely 100% believe
03:48
that she's the catalyst of what happened.
03:50
Because it's an extreme departure
03:53
from what had happened prior to her taking over.
03:58
You know, the fact that she's a woman I think matters
04:02
because it breaks all the stereotypes that were out there
04:05
that, oh, great, so the daughter's going to take over the team.
04:09
Great.
04:10
You know, and the fans want the Fords to sell the team
04:12
for this, right?
04:13
No.
04:14
She took over because she had genuine interest
04:18
in running the Detroit Lions.
04:20
That's what she wanted to do.
04:22
And all she's done since then is prove to everybody
04:27
just how dedicated she is and how serious she is
04:29
and made the right decisions and who she surrounded herself with,
04:32
who she hired, and then, you know,
04:34
trust those people to present her with options
04:37
of who then should be the next hires.
04:39
And it's worked out brilliantly.
04:41
And she deserves a ton of the credit.
04:43
When you get the big slice of pie or cake
04:46
and you want to divvy it up,
04:47
then I think she gets the biggest slice
04:49
because she's the one that started it.
04:51
Okay.
04:52
Here's more.
04:53
And again, this is from The Athletic.
04:54
This is what she said that day.
04:56
I know this is difficult.
04:57
All right.
04:58
So they are one and five.
04:59
It's year two.
05:01
I know this is difficult.
05:02
Our rebuild is hard.
05:04
We really believe in our process.
05:06
We really believe in we're going to turn this thing
05:08
around the right way through the draft.
05:10
It requires patience.
05:12
It's frustrating.
05:14
Am I frustrated?
05:15
Absolutely.
05:16
Are the fans frustrated?
05:17
Absolutely.
05:18
But I think we're really making progress.
05:20
You know, you've seen it.
05:21
It's just this was a huge teardown and then turnaround, you know,
05:25
and we really were only a third of the way through the season.
05:28
We got 11 more games to go.
05:29
And then, I mean,
05:31
it's so funny looking back because what she said is now what we're all,
05:37
what we're all saying and what I guess everybody hoped is that, yeah,
05:40
we've got a draft Ninja who's crushed it.
05:43
It does take patience.
05:45
And they did turn it around.
05:47
And, you know,
05:50
we were doing shows for all that time and the great,
05:53
one of the great parts about Dan Campbell is that he's one of one right
05:58
now.
05:59
You see, there was a, there was a,
06:02
a preseason speech that the head coach in Arizona made and people are like,
06:10
Ooh, this is his Dan Campbell moment.
06:12
And I'm like, are they really doing that?
06:14
Are people really doing that?
06:16
And they are, they're looking for,
06:19
for who's the next Dan Campbell and some writer in Arizona tried to comp
06:26
Jonathan Gannon to Dan Campbell.
06:28
And people are now, okay.
06:30
Who's who's the next Dan Campbell because he was one of one.
06:33
We got calls at the time saying nobody's done it like this,
06:38
that you can't have this football caveman running a team.
06:45
Who's done it.
06:46
Who's one that with a guy like this and the best we could,
06:48
I remember we'd be the best we came up with.
06:50
It was kind of Ditka.
06:51
Right.
06:52
And, and,
06:53
but Ditka was such a hard ass like Ditka wouldn't smile.
06:56
Dan Campbell smiles.
06:58
He laughs.
06:59
He cries.
07:00
He does it all with his team.
07:01
It's it's he's,
07:03
he is one of a kind,
07:05
absolutely one of a kind.
07:07
You can't come up with a comp.
07:09
And,
07:10
and like we go through these people call the time as I didn't believe or
07:13
this,
07:14
that,
07:15
and the other,
07:16
and they still have work to do.
07:17
Let's be clear.
07:18
You,
07:19
nobody needs to apologize or feel bad for that because we'd seen different
07:22
things tried over and over and over again.
07:24
And being skeptical of the lions,
07:25
it's okay.
07:26
It's okay.
07:27
It's okay.
07:28
And it's great now to see,
07:31
to see what's going on.
07:33
It's just it's just remarkable.
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