The Detroit Lions Should Stop Trying To Kick Footballs

More misses in six games than any team in the entire 2013 season? Whoa.

The Detroit Lions have missed a whopping 10 field goals in six games this season, already eclipsing the nine tragic misses by both Houston and Oakland in all of 2013. Holy. Crap.

Impressive stuff.

If Detroit manages to continue this alarming misdirection of football-kicking, they will go on to miss 27 field goals, breaking Paul Hornung’s record of 26 misses set in 1964. On the bright side, at least they’ll be in the neighboring presence of good company. The guy did win the Heisman Trophy and experienced a world of success in Green Bay.

But everything about this distressing stat has “typical Lions” written all over it, much like this historic photo of ineptitude — one that perfectly encapsulates a franchise that so often trips over its own hashmarks.

Oft-forgotten factoid: When the area of which you are standing on the field is no longer green, you are probably no longer in-bounds.

Dan Orlovsky, forever in our hearts, and forever out of bounds … and still somehow the No. 2 QB “option” on the Lions depth chart?

Exactly, Mr. Colbert, exactly.

(h/t Cousin Mike)