| Letter To Mr. Joe Dumars Authored by James Morisette - November 25, 2005 - 11:37 pm
Dear Mr. Dumars,
I am writing to humbly request that you take some time out of your very busy schedule to contact Mr. William Clay Ford Jr. and help him figure out how to transform the perpetually flawed Detroit Lions football franchise into a champion.
I know this may seem to be a tall order but you as well as everyone else inside and outside Motor City limits understands that the leadership within the Lion’s organization is in dire need of guidance and direction. Mr. Ford has a General Manager who signed oodles of untapped talent but hired a coaching staff built, not for cracking the whip and instilling discipline in its youth, but for battle-tested veterans.
As a result, the Lions are father to a feeble offensive scheme that oftentimes leads to defensive fatigue, frustration and late game failure; father to uptight quarterbacks and inadequately used running backs; father to beat up linemen and linebackers; father to frequent acts of screaming and stammering on the sidelines that is normally recorded and printed in local and national headlines; and father to mothers and fathers and sons and daughters heading for the exits in the third quarter of action.
In other words sir, the situation swirling around the celestial sphere that is the Detroit Lions is beyond grave and we could certainly use your assistance. You are an excellent leader and competitor with valuable team building experience. You took a struggling Pistons basketball team and, through your remarkable usage of both the NBA draft and the free agency market, turned it into one of the most successful basketball franchises in the NBA. You hired strict disciplinarian coaches like Rick Carlisle and Larry Brown to teach road-weary players like Chauncey Billups, Ben Wallace, and Rasheed Wallace the importance of fundamentals. Two years later, after the Pistons made two trips to the NBA Finals, these core players, as well as everyone else on the battle-tested Pistons team, are able to enjoy the defense first but offense close second philosophy of Flip Saunders. Consequentially, the high-powered Pistons have won nine of their first ten games.
Your basketball success has made everyone in Motown recognize that you have what it takes to turn the Lion franchise around. At the same time, everyone recognizes the fact that you are a very busy man. Thus, if you cannot accept my invitation to contact Mr. Ford, I will write a letter to Detroit Red Wing owner Mr. Mike Illitch, to see if there is anything he can do. I thank you for your time and good luck to your Pistons tonight against the Washington Wizards, and may the Larry O’Brien Championship Trophy return to Detroit in the very near future.
Very Respectfully,
James M. Morisette |
