Freep - Amari Spievey insists he was joking. Charlie Sanders isn't so sure. Either way, Spievey, the rookie cornerback, got a lesson in Lions history during his first week of training camp. Spievey and Sanders, the Hall of Fame tight end, were sitting next to each other at an after-practice autograph session last week when Sanders said Spievey asked him, "What position did you play, running back?" "And I said, 'Pardon?' " Sanders said. "He said, 'Well, my dad told me there was this great running back ...' And Calvin (Johnson) was sitting out here and he said, 'Are you (kidding) me?' " Believing he had been mistaken for former Lions running back Barry Sanders, Sanders brought his Hall of Fame jacket to practice the next day as part of a practical joke. When the Lions huddled after practice, coach Jim Schwartz asked Sanders to join him in front of the team. "Jim called everybody together and said, 'Some of you young guys don't understand the game, where it came from. Half of you guys don't even know who played here,' " Sanders said. "So he called me up and then he called Spievey up and introduced me to Spievey. And then Calvin came out of back of the group with the jacket. Put it on him. And I shook hands and introduced myself."
A third-round pick out of Iowa, Spievey can expect to be on the spot a lot more now that his nagging side injury is close to healing. He took part in individual drills Tuesday for the first time in about a week, and though he's "frustrated as hell" having to miss some time, he's working hard to catch up.
There hasn't been any Amari Spievey news because the dude has been at Lions' camp about as much as Wayne Fontes since getting drafted. So I gotta run with something and beggars can't be choosers. This fake story about Spievey "confusing" Charlie Sanders with Barry Sanders is retarded and the exact reason "Hard Knocks" will never feature the Lions. Is this really the best we got? The Schwartz needs to start staging fake murders and bring in some celebrities like Pete Carroll does if we wanna get this team ready to play. I'm pretty sure if you had Kid Rock running around pouring whiskey in peoples cereal while they're not looking, things would be a little more entertaining. So save the fake stories about getting one hall of famer confused with another cause this shit is insulting to Charlie Sanders and we're lucky he didn't clock Amari across the head and put him out for the first month of the season.
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