White and Butler fight during warm-ups
Perhaps I was fooled.
But I got the sense that the Detroit Lions were taking steps toward not be the laughing stock in a league where the Oakland Raiders have a franchise.
Granted, there is nowhere to go but up for the first team in NFL history to lose every single regular-season game last year.
That being said, the 2009 Lions did something their 2008 counterparts never did.
Two players -- Dewayne White and Carson Butler -- fought during their pre-game warm-ups as they got ready for their game against the Cleveland Browns last night, per Tom Kowalski of MLive.com.
"You know, I didn't know if that was a good sign or a bad sign. I've never seen that before," Lions coach Jim Schwartz said. "Obviously, that's something that shouldn't happen and it's something that will be addressed. Actually, it already has been addressed.''
Schwartz might have "addressed" it, but White seems to believe there will be a rematch.
"There's no kissing and making up, what's wrong with you?" asked White (in a response to a question), according to Kowalski. "We'll probably have to go at it one more time -- when we're not playing a game in a few minutes. Next week sometime. ... There's going to be bad blood between us."'
White, a seven-year veteran, has started for the past two seasons. Butler, on the other hand, is an undrafted rookie trying to make the team and he didn't help his chances last night.
