{"id":6979,"date":"2008-07-23T14:30:51","date_gmt":"2008-07-23T14:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/23\/do-you-believe\/"},"modified":"2008-07-23T14:30:51","modified_gmt":"2008-07-23T14:30:51","slug":"do-you-believe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/23\/do-you-believe\/","title":{"rendered":"Do You Believe In Now?"},"content":{"rendered":"\u23f3 Approximate reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> min<\/span><\/span>

Detroit Lions training camp begins today, and the title above–word
\nhas it<\/a>–is the banner material leading their 2008-2009 charge toward the NFC
\nplayoffs.  <\/p>\n

What, no playoffs, you say? In that case, "Do you believe in now?" will
\nbe their slogan as they surge to a week eight "pundit’s mention" of a slim
\npossibility<\/i> that they will make the post-season. Right: like last year.<\/p>\n

Sean Yuille of Pride of Detroit<\/a>
\nputs it this way:<\/p>\n

Detroit undoubtedly could have come up with something that doesn’t draw
\n\tinstant mocking, but that’s exactly what happened with the slogan as most
\n\tpeople answer the question with "no." To be specific, 77% of over 1000
\n\tpeople voted no in a poll on Pride of Detroit that featured the Lions’
\n\tslogan. That means well over 800 people do not believe in now, which should
\n\tcome as no surprise.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Believe in now? I’m clinging to the response, "yes until no," which
\nmeans that I, for one, believe in now about the same as I believed in any Lions’
\nseason since I was old enough to have beliefs (I can’t pinpoint the date, but
\nthe very possibility of belief in the Lions’ chances must’ve come about during
\nthe Chuck Long era).<\/p>\n

Now? Not a whole lot more than then. Yet, sadly, I will persist
\nin my Lions fandom, so, ‘yes’ for the duration of training camp at the very
\nleast.<\/p>\n

Added: Also, there is this<\/a>, which includes this:<\/p>\n

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