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QOTW: Detroit Lions last meal?

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ALLEN PARK, Mich. -- If you had a chance to have only one more meal in your life, what would you eat? Have you ever thought about it?

This was the question posed to various Detroit Lions players this week -- and face it, football players know how to find good food to eat. So this week’s Lions Question of the Week: What would be your last meal?

Left guard Rob Sims: Oh man, last meal? Not going to lie, it’s this place called Baker’s Keyboard Lounge. It’s at 8th and Livernois. I’d have the turkey dinner in there. That’d be my last meal. It’s delicious. Elton Moore, our security guy, I was like, ‘I want to listen to some live music and get some soul food.’ He was like, "Go there." It became my favorite place in Detroit to go to. We go there all the time. It’s sweet. It’s a good place.

Reporter: Why the turkey?

Sims: I’m big on Thanksgiving. So in the middle of the year, when I can go get dressing and stuffing and yams and all that, I’m all for it. Thanksgiving is always the best day to eat, I want some Thanksgiving food before I go.


Cornerback Danny Gorrer: My last meal would be a home-cooked meal from my mom. Probably pork chops. Rice and gravy. Just call it and then ride off into the sunset.


Safety James Ihedigbo: Wow, I have no idea. We have our family chicken wings that are amazing. They are called the Ihedigbo Wings and they literally fall off the bone. So yeah, that would be the last. Back growing up family, it was my mom’s family recipe for wings and she taught it to all the kids and my wife knows how to make it and all that. That’s my last meal.


Kicker Alex Henery: It would be lasagna. Meatloaf? Lasagna, probably. I don’t know. It’s probably my favorite thing to eat, I guess. I never really thought about what I would eat if I was going to die.


Quarterback Dan Orlovsky: What time of day is it? I would have chicken parm with homemade pasta sauce, parmesan cheese on top for sure. A piece of cheesecake. And I’d be happy.

Reporter: Who is making the sauce?

Orlovsky: My wife.

Reporter: It could have been mom.

Orlovsky: My mom has some great sauce, too. My mom’s sauce is top of the line but my wife makes great sauce.

Reporter: Where’s the cheesecake coming from?

Orlovsky: I would let my wife make the cheesecake. She’s a really good cook, but she’s an even better baker. She likes to bake.


Wide receiver Corey Fuller: I would have my mother’s collard greens, macaroni and cheese, stuffing and potato salad. And then I would get crabs from Reter’s in Baltimore. I would get some Hip Hop Chicken, which is in Baltimore as well. And I think I would be good. I’d be good. And then any and every type of seafood. Doesn’t matter. Calamari. Clams. Oysters. Everything. All of it.