Don't let the title fool you: This is no panacea for the Detroit Lions' ills, no column-length magic spell to blow away 50 years of near-pure futility spiced with a little Barry Sanders and Alex Karras. Heck, there isn't enough gold on the planet to construct the Pulitzer Prize necessary to award anyone who could summarize and solve this...

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