Prior to the 2007 season, former Lions starting quarterback Jon Kitna notoriously proclaimed that the team would win 10 games that year.
The Lions finally got that 10th win in October. Of 2010.
In 2007, the Lions started 6-2, but lost seven of their final eight. In 2008, they lost 16 of their final 16.
In 2009, the Lions won only two more games.
And so win number 10, cumulatively from 2007 through 2010, came when the Lions hosted the Rams on October 10. It was the first of only two wins in the Lions’ first 12 games of the 2010 season.
Kitna was directly responsible for one of those losses. As the replacement for Tony Romo in Dallas, Kitna completed 18 of 24 passes for 147 yards and three touchdowns in a 35-19 win over Detroit.
On Sunday, Kitna will have a front-row seat for a Lions team that has now won seven straight games, dating back to the final four games of last season. From 5-47 since the back half of the 2007 season to 7-0. If the Lions can keep it up, it will become one of the greatest turnarounds in NFL history, if not in the history of all pro sports.
If Tony Romo takes a hard shot to the ribs from Lions defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh, who said multiple times before the season that the Lions’ mentality is that they’ll win every game, Kitna could have more than a front-row seat for the revolution.