Fan Pleads For Sheila To Keep The Band Together

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00:00Guys, thanks for having me on here. I don't want it to get lost in the sauce.

00:04Sheila is the foundation, the fundamental reason for the instigation, all this change we all spent.

00:11And you guys have spent a lot longer time than I have rooting for this team, hoping for success.

00:15I don't want it to get lost in the sauce that Sheila is the reason for all this.

00:19And you guys play the drop all the time. It's hilarious.

00:22The first time she ever got up in front of the fans and to bring Calvin and Barry back

00:25and put Calvin in the Ring of Honor, to get in front of those fans

00:29when her mother and father never did for decades,

00:32and just wear the merciless impatience of the fans as they booed her up there.

00:38She deserves a lot of commendation for having the courage to get up there and do that,

00:43to stick to her guns when things didn't go right at the start.

00:46And I'm asking you right now, Sheila Ford Hamp, please pay these men as much as a head coach.

00:53Keep them around. Last I checked on Google, there is no salary cap for coaches.

00:58And they're the most sought-after coaches in the league.

01:00Make them feel valued. Make them stay here.

01:03I'm saying this from the bottom of my heart, guys.

01:05We have a dynastic opportunity. Let's make it work. Thank you, guys.

01:08It'd be awesome, and we'd all be on board.

01:11It's not our money to spend, and of course, we are allowed to spend it.

01:15I'd love to keep them, but here's what you can't maybe put a price on sometimes,

01:19and that's what somebody's ambition is.

01:21You don't know what their lifelong goals are and their lifelong dreams are.

01:24And if it's to be a head football coach in the NFL, and that opportunity is there for them,

01:29cheer them on and go get that.

01:32Of course you'd like them to stay, and if money is the deciding factor,

01:37then let money be the deciding factor, I guess.

01:40But you can't stop somebody from reaching for their goals.

01:45No, and I made her my champ at a weekend yesterday,

01:50and I go back to the date was October.

01:54This doesn't feel like that long ago.

01:56It feels like eons ago, and yet on the calendar it's not that long ago.

01:59I'm looking at a story from October 26th of 2022, okay?

02:06And her quote is,

02:07We've got 11 more games to go, so I just don't want to ruin it.

02:10Push the panic button. Give up the ship.

02:12Because I think we've got the right people in place to pull this off,

02:15and I truly believe that.

02:17And I wouldn't say that if I didn't believe it.

02:21And this was her stepping in front of the media.

02:25Another quote,

02:26We're going to turn this thing around the right way.

02:29This is October 26th of 2022.

02:32And then they went 8-3.

02:34At the time, the Detroit Lions were 1-5.

02:38And lost the next game.

02:39Lost the next game.

02:40And then went 8-2.

02:41Yep.

02:42Then 12-5.

02:4415-2.

02:45And they have been an absolute juggernaut ever since.

02:48And, you know, she,

02:51I've told this story before,

02:53so I apologize if it's repeat for some people,

02:56but, you know, when she put Calvin,

02:59I think it was when they put Calvin into the Ring of Honor,

03:02and she went out there to introduce him,

03:04and she got booed.

03:05Oh, yeah.

03:06And I was told that, you know, she left,

03:09she stood there and took it, left,

03:11walked underneath, and you could tell it hurt.

03:14Now, whether that meant there were tears in her eyes,

03:16or whether, I don't know.

03:17I don't know.

03:18I just was told by an observer that was there

03:20that they said you could tell that it hurt her.

03:22And she kind of expected it was coming.

03:25But it was her job as the owner of the team

03:28to go out and to properly honor Calvin.

03:30And let's just say that this team is on the brink

03:34of bringing her cheers.

03:36I mean, like, perhaps never, ever before, right?

03:42No.

03:43And, look, you know how I feel about her as an owner,

03:46that I absolutely 100% believe

03:48that she's the catalyst of what happened.

03:50Because it's an extreme departure

03:53from what had happened prior to her taking over.

03:58You know, the fact that she's a woman I think matters

04:02because it breaks all the stereotypes that were out there

04:05that, oh, great, so the daughter's going to take over the team.

04:09Great.

04:10You know, and the fans want the Fords to sell the team

04:12for this, right?

04:13No.

04:14She took over because she had genuine interest

04:18in running the Detroit Lions.

04:20That's what she wanted to do.

04:22And all she's done since then is prove to everybody

04:27just how dedicated she is and how serious she is

04:29and made the right decisions and who she surrounded herself with,

04:32who she hired, and then, you know,

04:34trust those people to present her with options

04:37of who then should be the next hires.

04:39And it's worked out brilliantly.

04:41And she deserves a ton of the credit.

04:43When you get the big slice of pie or cake

04:46and you want to divvy it up,

04:47then I think she gets the biggest slice

04:49because she's the one that started it.

04:51Okay.

04:52Here's more.

04:53And again, this is from The Athletic.

04:54This is what she said that day.

04:56I know this is difficult.

04:57All right.

04:58So they are one and five.

04:59It's year two.

05:01I know this is difficult.

05:02Our rebuild is hard.

05:04We really believe in our process.

05:06We really believe in we're going to turn this thing

05:08around the right way through the draft.

05:10It requires patience.

05:12It's frustrating.

05:14Am I frustrated?

05:15Absolutely.

05:16Are the fans frustrated?

05:17Absolutely.

05:18But I think we're really making progress.

05:20You know, you've seen it.

05:21It's just this was a huge teardown and then turnaround, you know,

05:25and we really were only a third of the way through the season.

05:28We got 11 more games to go.

05:29And then, I mean,

05:31it's so funny looking back because what she said is now what we're all,

05:37what we're all saying and what I guess everybody hoped is that, yeah,

05:40we've got a draft Ninja who's crushed it.

05:43It does take patience.

05:45And they did turn it around.

05:47And, you know,

05:50we were doing shows for all that time and the great,

05:53one of the great parts about Dan Campbell is that he's one of one right

05:58now.

05:59You see, there was a, there was a,

06:02a preseason speech that the head coach in Arizona made and people are like,

06:10Ooh, this is his Dan Campbell moment.

06:12And I'm like, are they really doing that?

06:14Are people really doing that?

06:16And they are, they're looking for,

06:19for who's the next Dan Campbell and some writer in Arizona tried to comp

06:26Jonathan Gannon to Dan Campbell.

06:28And people are now, okay.

06:30Who's who's the next Dan Campbell because he was one of one.

06:33We got calls at the time saying nobody's done it like this,

06:38that you can't have this football caveman running a team.

06:45Who's done it.

06:46Who's one that with a guy like this and the best we could,

06:48I remember we'd be the best we came up with.

06:50It was kind of Ditka.

06:51Right.

06:52And, and,

06:53but Ditka was such a hard ass like Ditka wouldn't smile.

06:56Dan Campbell smiles.

06:58He laughs.

06:59He cries.

07:00He does it all with his team.

07:01It's it's he's,

07:03he is one of a kind,

07:05absolutely one of a kind.

07:07You can't come up with a comp.

07:09And,

07:10and like we go through these people call the time as I didn't believe or

07:13this,

07:14that,

07:15and the other,

07:16and they still have work to do.

07:17Let's be clear.

07:18You,

07:19nobody needs to apologize or feel bad for that because we'd seen different

07:22things tried over and over and over again.

07:24And being skeptical of the lions,

07:25it's okay.

07:26It's okay.

07:27It's okay.

07:28And it's great now to see,

07:31to see what's going on.

07:33It's just it's just remarkable.

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