Pair of Lions players say they are eager to ruin Chiefs’ Super Bowl banner raising
It’s just 42 days until the 2023 NFL season starts and in case you didn’t hear*, the first game will pit the Chiefs against the Lions.
*Yeah, I know you were aware of that fact
The Chiefs will raise their Super Bowl LVII banner that night, and Lions players are eager to make sure a night that begins with cheers at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium ends in silence.
Lions defensive end Aidan Hutchinson was a guest on Tuesday’s episode of “The Rich Eisen Show,” and he admitted that he’s visualized sacking Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes.
“Every day I put it into my regimen at home and I do my manifestations, my visualizations every day,” Hutchinson said. “I’ve really never been this with it in my life, and I’ve been doing this for many years now. but now that I’m in the NFL and got a lot of time, I don’t have to write papers for English class anymore, I’ve got a lot of time to invest in my future and see it before it happens.”
Hutchinson said he’s been fired up about the thought of opening the 2023 season at Arrowhead Stadium since the NFL announced the game.
“’Are you kidding me?’ That was my first thought,” Hutchinson said. “These prime-time games I get so pumped for. There’s nothing quite like these prime-time games. So when I saw we opened up with KC at KC, life doesn’t get much better than that. I’m so excited for the challenge ahead. I mean, I think it’s gonna be a hell of a game and, man, I’ve had my eyes set on this game since the moment they released it, so we’ll be ready. We’ll be ready to go.”
Hutchinson isn’t alone.
Earlier this month Lions cornerback Jerry Jacobs was a guest on Sirius XM’s NFL Rewind and said Detroit was ready to show that last season’s 9-8 record wasn’t a fluke.
What better way to show the Lions have playoff aspirations than by pulling off a stunning upset in the first of the NFL’s 272 regular-season games in the 2023 season?
“It’s time to show what Detroit is made of,” Jacobs said, per the All Lions blog. “When we knew we were playing them in the season opener, (coach) Dan Campbell came in and said, ‘They want us to lose, so what are we going to do?’ ... We almost went to the playoffs and they just won the Super Bowl, so they’re trying to see if we’re really like that. We’re ready, I know we’re ready. Every time I hear we’re playing the season opener against the Super Bowl team, we’re ready to go out there and play ball and shock the world.”
