Saturday, July 29, 2006

LIONS NOTEBOOK - Detroit Free Press
...Lions coach Rod Marinelli did most of the talking. His friend, former Southern Cal and Los Angeles Rams coach John Robinson, did most of the listening and drinking.

Marinelli spent the night before his first training camp as a head coach chatting with Robinson.

"They're so busy, it's hard to sit and talk," Robinson said. "I just listened. They had a bottle of wine in the room. I drank the whole ... bottle just about. We talked about, he talked about this -- this opportunity that he has."

Marinelli was a defensive line coach on Robinson's USC staff in 1995. Marinelli said it meant "a lot" to have Robinson in Allen Park...

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