Not having any Detroit Lions on any of my fantasy football squads this season, I was unaware of how poorly the Lions were playing until a couple of weeks ago. But to finish 0-16 is something that only rarely happens even in Tecmo Bowl. Predictably, the Lions have already fired their coach. While it seemed that going winless was almost impossible in the salary cap era, it seems that there is one thing that this should sear into the collective wisdom of sports franchises. Professional sports teams are multi-million dollar businesses, and as such it makes no sense to hand the duties to someone with no experience in the management side of the business. Ex-players like Matt Millen and Michael Jordan who have basically been handed the reigns of the franchise without showing the required acumen can't be expected to be better at running a sports franchise than people who have spent their entire adult lives working running various aspects of a franchise.
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