Pigskin Jeopardy: Horrible GM/Owner Edition
badnewsbloggers.com 9/20/2008 — Featuring contestants Matt Millen, Al Davis, Daniel Snyder, and Jerry Angelo. Also includes a surprise guest host! Whoever wins gets to keep their job and the other three are fired. On the spot. Think you can guess who wins?
MILLEN IS OUT!
profootballtalk.com 9/24/2008 — Less than an hour ago, yours truly told the Sports Junkies on WJFK radio in D.C. that Matt Millen will continue to run the Detroit Lions for as long as William Clay Ford Sr. owns the team.
And, to no surprise, Millen has been fired. Jay Glazer of FOX ...
Report: Lions Remove Matt Millen
prideofdetroit.com 9/24/2008 —
Jay Glazer of FOXSports.com is reporting that the Lions have "removed" Matt Millen from his job with the team. Glazer goes on to say that as of right now it isn't known if Millen was fired or if he left on his own accord, but both are ...
Fired Millen! Matt Millen Out as Lions GM
nfl.fanhouse.com 9/24/2008 — My fellow Lions fans, our long local nightmare is over. Detroit Lions President, General Manager and all-around incompetent executive Matt Millen is no longer the general manager. Jay Glazer reports: FOXSports.com has learned that the Lions have ...
Puck Headlines: Chris Osgood adds GM of Lions to job wish list
sports.yahoo.com 9/24/2008 — Here are your Evening Puck Headlines: A glorious collection of news and views collected from the greatest blogosphere in sports and the few, the proud, the mainstream hockey media. • Detroit Red Wings goalie Chris Osgood ... what a card. ...
Lions Fans, You Have Been Liberated
s2nblog.wordpress.com 9/25/2008 — Not from franchise futility or managerial stupidity, but at least you no longer have to deal with the specific futility and stupidity of rightfully embattled president and GM Matt Millen any longer.
It’s not clear whether Millen quit or was ...
Matt Millen Fired by Detroit Lions
emqb.com 9/25/2008 — Team Owner and Chairman William Clay Ford announced that Matt Millen has been relieved of his duties (a nice way of saying he was fired) as President and CEO even though he had three years left on a five-year contract extension he signed in 2005.
Fire Millen
gautham.typepad.com 9/22/2008 — An extended argument about why Millen should be fired. Many funny references to past draft picks- did you know Shaun Cody was drafted in the second round? Hilarious!
And Millen actually thought that trading Charlie Batch was critical to Joey Harrington's development. How has that worked out?
Millen Fired…………..finally —
Sports Business Digest
Sports Business digest nemesis and the most hated man in Detroit Sports History Matt Millen has been fired by the Detroit Lions. For Lions fans this is almost as good as winning a regular season game, or maybe as good as not having a losing season. The real truth though is this, this is not the ...
Matt Millen Fired: F-cking Finally! —
Full of Sports
3 years in the making, Matt Millen was finally fired. At first it was just the Matt Millen experiment, a guy with no experience, “getting better” at his trade. He managed to fuck it all up in the end and the Lions still suck
FIRED MILLEN —
Gorilla Crouch
Bill Ford Jr said he didn’t have the decision-making power to remove Matt Millen as the Detroit Lions’ general manager. But there can be no question his public disapproval of the disgraced football executive was the action that set the wheels in motion that led to Matt Millen ...
Millen Gone —
The DC Sports Page
It appears the Matt Millen is finally leaving the Detriot Lions . It's unclear whether Millen resigned or was fired, but Lions Vice Chairman Bill Ford's comments were probably the catalyst for the move.
Millen will probably be remembered now and forever as the Detriot President/GM who ...
Matt Millen (Finally) Fired —
RCS Sidelines
One question: what took so long ?
FOXSports.com has learned that the Lions have finally removed team president and GM Matt Millen from his post, unseating one of the most criticized executives in Detroit sports history.
Millen was informed of the move last night during a late-night high-level ...
Happy Trails Matt Millen —
Grind It Out Sports
You will never be forgotten Matt, and I don't mean that in a good way.
Finally Detroit Lions fans can rest easy knowing their beloved franchise is no longer under the control of Matt (The Franchise Destroyer) Millen. Since Millen took the GM job in Detroit, the Lions have had the worst ...
BREAKING: Millen Fired —
F Juice.com
After 7 years of losing, Detroit Lions GM Matt Millen is out. A victory parade is being planned in Detroit, as we speak.
Sources say president and CEO Matt Millen was fired Tuesday night and was cleaning out his office today.
Calls to the Lions haven’t been returned.
...
"Millen" Around The Unemployment Office —
Sports Cards Uncensored
Detroit Motor City Kitties fans, your day has finally come. Matt Millen has been fired/canned/drawn and quartered and is no longer the team's GM. What a day for you guys. Even though I am about as much a Lions fan as I am a Yankees fan, I am happy for your loss. Hopefully there will be no more ...
…AND STAY OUT —
With Leather
Just days after Lions’ vice chairman Bill Ford publicly stated that bumbling oaf and team president/GM Matt Millen should be fired, Jay Glazer has reported that the reign of incompetence is finally over :
Millen was informed of the move last night during a late-night high-level ...
Fire Millen: Millen Fired —
MOUTHPIECE Blog // A Chicago-Addled Sports Blog
I have waited to either read or type that headline for nearly three years, for two reasons:
1. It’s snappy.
2. I have been periodically checking up on the blog Fire Millen since its inception in November 2005. Today, it reports that, indeed, Detroit Lions president/general manager ...
Millen out as president/GM of Lions —
NFL - Sports Rumors - Yahoo! Sports
Matt Millen is apparently gone. Two days after Bill Ford Jr. told reporters that if he had the authority he would fire him, Millen, according to Fox Sports, has either resigned or was fired. Millen was spotted packing up his office on Wednesday and he did not take part in the team picture ...
MILLEN REPORTEDLY FIRED —
Zoner Sports
What will valued reader PB sign off on his comments now? The Freep says that FOXSports.com and WDFN-AM (1130) are reporting that the Lions have removed team president and CEO Matt Millen from his post.
Maybe he will sign off with HIRE COWHER MANG!
Matt Millen - Gone —
Chuckie Hacks
You mean that 31-84 record will get you fired? No way. This is terrible news for Packers fans because now the Lions have a chance to turn it around, something that was impossible with Millen as GM.
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Matt Millen has finally been fired —
Walk Off Balk
According to The Detroit Free Press , Detroit Lions President & GM Matt Millen has finally been fired. The Lions team record while Millen has been in power: 31-84. While the big winners of this firing seem to be the fans of the Detroit Lions, the loser in this firing is not just Matt Millen. The ...
Matt Millen Fired By Detroit Lions —
FanIQ Blog
Huge news out of Detroit today. Matt Millen is gone. Time to celebrate, Detroit. And don't worry, this story isn't being reported by ESPN's Chris Mortensen, but instead by Jay Glazer, so you know it's true. Here are the details .
Millen was informed of the move last night during a ...
Matt Millen Fired: Great Day For Fans —
Dan Shanoff
Matt Millen was fired. Or finally fired, I guess you might want to say. Makes you wonder why today versus last week versus last month versus any one of the last few seasons. But the important part is that he's gone. "Fire Millen" is now a pleasant widespread grassroots memory. As for Millen, I'm ...
Report: Millen Finally Kicked Out Of Lions’ Den —
SPORTSbyBROOKS
At long last, Matt Millen’s moronic reign appears to be over in the Motor City. Jay Glazer of FOX SPORTS reports that the Detroit Lions have finally given their much-criticized president & GM the heave-ho .
It’s not immediately known if Millen was fired or resigned, but ...
Lions' Millen given the ax —
Boston.com -- Football news
The Detroit Lions fired Matt Millen seven-plus years after the acclaimed TV analyst and Super Bowl-winning linebacker took over as team president for one of the NFL's mediocre franchises and made it the worst.
Millen out as Lions CEO —
NYDailyNews.com - Football
After going a pathetic 31-84, Matt Millen, perhaps the league's most criticized executive, finally is out after an 0-3 start this season. It is unclear whether Millen, also the Lions' CEO, resigned or was fired.
Bill Ford Says He Would Fire Matt Millen —
Bleacher Report - NFL
In a stunning development in Lions management, Detroit Lions Vice Chairman Bill Ford commented today on the Lions' 0-3 start.
"It was an embarrassment, the fans deserve better, and if I had the authority, I would have fired the general manager, ...
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