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Lack of “Franchise” Defensive Lineman Detroit Lions’ Bane for Decades
Published: October 31, 2009
We’ve had Steel Curtains and Doomsday and Purple People Eaters. There were the Killer Bees down in Miami.
Detroit and Los Angeles—when the NFL actually had a franchise there—shared the alliterate name Fearsome Foursome.
Pro football games are won in the trenches, they say. Rare is the championship team that doesn’t possess a solid line, both on offense and defense.
Lions fans will tell you that the team has been looking for its franchise quarterback for some fifty years or so. That’s difficult to refute, but how about a franchise defensive lineman?
The Lions haven’t had one of those around in these parts since the Carter Administration.
His name was Al “Bubba” Baker and he came from Colorado State and at his best, he appeared in the backfield frequently, as well as in quarterbacks’ nightmares.
Bubba Baker (pictured above) was, at times, simply unblockable. He played defensive end but he...
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