Detroit Lions

2012 record: 4-12

Most non-Lions fans don’t pay all that much attention to the team until they’re watching games with the family on Thanksgiving Day. Here are a few facts to wow your in-laws with as you wait for the day’s feast to begin.

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1) Ndamukong Suh has hosted a wheelchair basketball game for charity the past three years in Detroit.

The 2010 top overall pick may have a ferocious reputation, but he’s shown his softer side by helping with this annual charity initiative to benefit the DMC Rehabilitation Institute of Michigan. He’ll host this year’s event, which takes place next month.

2) Cornerback Darius Slay thought that Lambeau was a car.



The rookie from Mississippi State was in a defensive backs meeting this summer when several veterans started talking about the legendary Green Bay Packers stadium. Slay assumed they were talking about a Lamborghini sports car.

“I knew what a Lambo was, but I didn’t know it was Green Bay’s stadium,” Slay told MMQB’s Robert Klemko. “They said, ‘Man, that’s the stadium!’ I said, ‘Oh man . . .’”

3) Linebacker DeAndre Levy ate rats while on vacation in the Amazon this offseason.

“[My teammates] thought the Amazon was nuts, eating frogs and rats and piranha and stuff like that,” Levy told the Detroit News earlier this month. The team’s starting outside linebacker said he had to catch the jungle rodent with a spear during his trip in the rainforest.

4) Norwegian YouTube kicking sensation Havard Rugland learned English from the Wu-Tang Clan.



Rugland, also known by the nickname “Kickalicious,” is probably not going to win the team’s starting kicker job from David Akers, but he’s provided some entertaining moments with the team, particularly when he told teammate Rob Sims that he grasped most of his command of English from listening to the iconic Staten Island rap group. (UPDATE: The Detroit Free Press reports that the Lions released Rugland on Tuesday morning.)

5) First round pick Ziggy Ansah can see free movies for a year.





After wearing a pair of 3D glasses onstage at this April’s NFL Draft, IMAX gave the rookie a free pass to see all of their films he’d like in the next year. The Detroit Free Press reported in May that Ansah received a letter from the company after the draft with the offer and a compliment on his fashion sense.

Wednesday: The five most important useless facts about the Green Bay Packers



