One of our favorite stories over the last year has been the drunken idiocy of former Lions assistant coach Joe Cullen? Remember him? The guy that got liquored up and went through a Wendy’s drive-thru completely naked? Jon Kitna and his wife sure do. Kitna and his wife honored Cullen by dressing up at Mike Furrey’s charity Halloween party.
“A lot of the guys on the team remember what happened,” Kitna told Fox 2 at the party. “It’s far enough removed that you can laugh at it now.”
Kitna’s Cullen costume involved a bodysuit, a T-shirt with a bare chest stamped across the front and a thong. He wore a dark wig with a Lions’ coaching visor. Jennifer Kitna wore a Wendy’s employee uniform with a headset to take the customers’ drive-thru order and a red pony-tailed wig that’s symbolic of the company’s logo, a red-haired little girl.
Coming from the devout Christian that said God was on the Lions’ side, this costume comes as a bit of a surprise. Nevertheless, it’s a hilarious gesture by a guy that seemingly can’t do many things wrong these days. After predicting ten wins in the offseason, I laughed. But sitting pretty at 5-2, Kitna’s predictions appear to have some validity.
Despite wowing everyone at the Halloween party, some people aren’t so amused. Detroit Free Press columnist Drew Sharp has already come out and criticized Kitna, saying the costume was in “poor taste.” Sure it was. But so was Cullen ordering a #4 in his birthday suit. Lighten up, Drew. Jon Kitna has helped make the Lions relevant again. For one day, he can be a little crude.
