DETROIT — Jeff Fisher has a lot of memories of playing and coaching football in Michigan.
He has memories of the Thanksgiving Day games, even if he never played in one against Detroit. He remembers the old Pontiac Silverdome, where there were some great Bears-Lions clashes when he was a player in Chicago. He remembers coaching against Barry Sanders, "that little running back that used to run around and make everybody miss, year after year." And then there was 2011 when, with Fisher between NFL head coaching jobs, he spent a significant amount of time in Detroit, attending several games and practices with his oldest son, Brandon Fisher, on Lions coach Jim Schwartz's staff as a defensive assistant.
But one memory that, interestingly, stands out perhaps most of all was from 2008, when Fisher's Tennessee Titans came to Detroit to play the 0-11 Lions. Easy task? You'd think, and you'd be wrong. Talk about a no-win situation for the opposing team. Win? Well, you're supposed to. Lose? Well, what the hell.
