Detroit Lions steal page from Kirko Chainz, Minnesota Vikings playbook
Kirko Chainz started something. Icy drip and bling for days, the subtle six-packed Minnesota Vikings quarterback sent the football fashion world in motion when he danced shirtless with teammates' diamond necklaces draped around his neck following one of the Vikings' eight fourth-quarter comebacks last season.
Imitation is the most sincere form of flattery, right? That's what Detroit Lions fans will say after the team's social media accounts posted photos of quarterback Jared Goff dressed in his teammates' gold and diamond chains during a recent photoshoot.
But wait. There's more to the quote than meets the eye. The full quote from Oscar Wilde actually goes like this: "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness."
Lesson for the Lions? Get your own bit, because copying Kirk Cousins and the Vikings is an admission that the Lions are mediocre compared to the Vikings.
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— Detroit Lions (@Lions) June 6, 2023
If Kris Boyd were still with the Vikings, we're certain he'd have something to say to the Lions, just as he did when the Washington Commanders attempted to copy Kirk's style last season.
"Stop trynna [explective] be us…Lames…He couldn’t hold Kirk jockstrap!!" Boyd tweeted after seeing Commanders quarterback Taylor Heinicke trying to reach Kirk's level of swag. "Find your own trend!…Y’all [expletive] don’t even look like y’all having fun enjoying it.."
Yes, we've taken this way too seriously but that's a product of a lot of football trauma from six-plus decades of failure on the biggest stages. The Lions have even more failure, but it's more painful to almost summit the football peak and then fall into the icy offseason with playoff meltdown after playoff meltdown.
Detroit has been entrenched in losing seemingly forever, never giving locals a chance to fall from the top of the mountain. Maybe this is the Year of the Lion. Detroit is favored to win the NFC North while the Vikings are expected to finish second.
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