Kevin Smith, or more correctly, his career, has risen from the dead.
From the dead pool to the end zone...3 times.
3 weeks ago Smith was out of football, an afterthought in the eyes of the NFL. Dead and buried. Today, Smith is alive, well, and NFC Offensive Player of the Week.
Via Tim Twentyman of DetroitLions.com:
Lions running back Kevin Smith has been named the NFC Offensive Player of the Week by the NFL for his performance against the Panthers Sunday.
In only his second game with the team since signing as a free agent on Nov. 7, Smith rushed for 140 yards and two touchdowns and caught four passes for 61 yards and another score in the Lions’ 49-35 victory.
Smith leaped off his couch, onto the gridiron and into the starting lineup. Smith is getting 1st team reps with the Lions in preparation for their biggest regular season game in decades, and should get the start against the 10-0 Packers.
I honestly thought Smith was done as a productive NFL back. To see his career resurrected has been amazing. So amazing, I thought the following would come back in vogue before Kevin Smith...
1. The HP Touchpad: Cool ass tech (I should know, I got one in the $99 fire sale) offed by moron execs intent on running Hewlett-Packard into the ground, much like Marty Mornhinweg did as Lions head coach with his riding off on a Harley and "The bar is high." HP's press release announcing they were killing webOS and were thinking of selling off their PC division = Marty taking the wind in OT.
2 & 3. Jesus Christ/Steve Jobs: If you go by the tears of Mac fanbois, they're the same person. It's been more 6 weeks since Jobs went pinin' for the fjords. So much for that comparison.
4. Joe Paterno's reputation: Um...yeah. Too soon? Too soon. Let's just go with the Paterno = Zombie meme...
5. Firefly: (A few days ago I would have used Arrested Development...but the Bluth's pulled a Kevin Smith!) Had a semi-resurrection with a movie...which bombed like a Matt Millen draft pick, putting the final nail in the coffin. Even Captain Mal can't talk his way out of the dead pool at this point...
6. The career of coach killer Mike McMahon: Coach killer? Both Mornhinweg and Steve Mariucci wanted to play the athletic, yet erratic, McMahon over Joey Blue Skies. Turned out neither could play. Just because you can run and throw the ball a mile doesn't make you an NFL QB. Otherwise Uncle Rico would be playing in the NFL.
Mike McMahon...
...or Uncle Rico?
Don't see a difference.
7. The career of Joey Harrington: The Harrington era was so full of fail, I...I...I'm still at a loss for words. Though the pic below says more than I ever could.
8. The relevancy of Chris Berman: Mr. Bean has the only possible explanation as to why Berman has remained on ESPN for decades...
9. The Big East as a legitimate BCS conference: Watching the wannabe BCS conference trying to keep their auto-qualifier status by begging mid-major teams from around the country to join their conference has been either hilarious (BYU is 2500 miles away from Big East HQ...close enough!) or sad (San Diego St is their next target to join. SDSU? HA!) The Big Least are in desperation mode.
10. William Clay Ford: Wait...what?
