Nearly three weeks ago, we reported on the push for a Lions bailout. At Thursday's annual Thanksgiving game at Ford Field in Detroit, someone displayed a sign also urging the bailout.
A reliable source told us today, however, that since the Lions are insufficiently connected to certain key powerful football fans in congress, they would probably just be allowed to fail as the "Lehman Brothers of the NFL."
Carl Levin, Debbie Stabenow, and the members of the Michigan congressional delegation are reportedly unwilling to expend any political capital on an 0-11 Lions team. They are reportedly "keeping their powder dry" in case there is still a chance for the proposed auto company bailouts in the wake of John Dingell losing the chairmanship of the House Energy and Commerce Committee to Henry Waxman after merely "offhandedly raising the issue of a Lions bailout in the House cloakroom" within earshot of Bears Fan Rahm Emanuel (D-IL).
My previous post was linked on the popular "the Corner" blog on National Review Online. Thanks to John J. Miller, host of the great author interview show "Between the Covers", also on NRO.
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