Do you believe in miracles?

Okay, so the Lions have won 3 games in a row, including.... 2 in a row on the road.

I bold that phrase because of its significance.  This is the Detroit Lions, a team that, before the win against Tampa Bay, had lost 26 games in a row on the road.  You only play 8 road games a year, so that's 3 full seasons plus 2 games of another since the last time they won.

Furthermore, if you want to look at the last time the Lions played back to back road games in consecutive weeks and won both of them, you have to go back to October of 1993, when they won at the Los Angeles Rams and Minnesota Vikings in back to back weeks.  That's over 17 years.  6,266 days.  The Rams haven't been in Los Angeles since 1994 for crying out loud. 

Winning on the road for the Lions didn't used to be such a difficult job, until Matt Millen-- aka The Grinch that Destroyed the Lions-- came to town.  Its been a major level of futility of epic proportions. 

That Lions team back in 1993 was one of the best ones I could remember.  Barry Sanders, Herman Moore, Brett Perriman, and the offense was dominant.  They went 10-6 and won the NFC Central Division. 

The thing that is impressing me most about these Lions are the players they are winning with.  2nd and 3rd stringers, along with guys that didn't have a NFL job about a month ago.  The last few years of Lions teams by Thanksgiving would of mentally packed their bags and called it a season.  This team doesn't give up, they fight to the end, and the best example to me was the last play of the game yesterday.  Ronnie Brown was trying to jump over Nathan Vasher and get out of bounds to stop the clock, and Vasher grabbed him in mid-air and slammed him to the turf, and the clock ran out before Miami could run another play. 

Jim Schwartz and Martin Mayhew are changing the culture of this organization.  Schwartz said a lot of similar things that other head coaches have said upon taking the job, but unlike those who preceeded him, he is starting to deliver on those.  Granted, some of that has to do with having someone who appears competent in what he does as far as acquiring players, but Schwartz and his staff is getting more out of these players than previous coaches got out of their squads. 

There's one more game in the season, and its a home game vs Minnesota.  It sure would be nice to end this year on a 4 game winning streak and 6-10 overall, especially when you consider the previous 2 years they were 2-30.  Either way, the future is finally looking bright for us fans of the Honolulu Blue.