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Volume 88, Issue 07 | October 7, 2009
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By CARA PETITTI
Detroit Lions Break Their 19-Game Losing Streak
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Lions 19, Redskins 14. No, that was not a typo. For the first time in nineteen regular season games, the Detroit Lions finally won on Sept. 27. It seemed like an eternity since Ford Field had seen the exhilaration that goes along with a home game victory. And in essence, it had been. The Lions became the first team in NFL history to go 0-16 within a regular season. On their way to catching the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, whose late 70’s record sported a 26 loss streak, the Lions had accumulated 19 losses in a row. Head Coach Jim Schwartz commented a week before the surprise win that the team was trying to ignore the constant mention of last season’s devastating record. “I look at it more as we’re 0-2,” Schwartz stated in a postpractice interview. He also mentioned that the press’ constant reminding of the team’s past shortcomings was not helping morale one bit. “It’s too much to ask them to try to correct what happened last year, this year. When you’ve got a zero in the wins column, you need to get that out from under you: it changes See LIONS page 10
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For the first time in nineteen games, the Detroit Lions won a game on Sept. 27, 2009.
Lucy...Now in the FBI Under Fire Sky
lowing the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing on the Alfred ––––––––––––––––––––– P. Murrah Federal BuildBy MELANIE ROVINSKY ing, which shows people treatment for lupus. STAFF WRITER As if it wasn’t enough running from buildings and Vodden’s connection ––––––––––––––––––––– with the Beatles came early for the families of the 168 tumbling wreckage. Howon in her life. When Julian victims, 19 children, and ever, the silent recordings, Lucy Vodden, the wom- Lennon, John Lennon’s injured to endure the af- taken from several compaan who inspired the Bea- son, was four years old, he termath of the 1995 Okla- nies and buildings in close tles’ song “Lucy in the Sky came home from school homa City bombing, now proximity to the Murrah with Diamonds,” died on one day with a drawing of they are forced to deal with building, appear blank at Sept. 28 at the age of 46. his friend Lucy. He told his new anguish that has the moments just before 9:02 Vodden died at St. Thomas’ father it was a picture of FBI at the central point of a.m. when a truck carrying investigation. Taped reHospital where she had reSee FOOTAGE page 2 cordings have surfaced folSee LUCY page 14 ceived over five years of By LIZ DE LA TORRE STAFF WRITER
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