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Millen removed as Lions team president, CEO

ESPN.com news services

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

ALLEN PARK, Mich. -- The Detroit Lions fired president Matt Millen on Wednesday, more than seven years after the former linebacker and TV analyst took over one of the NFL's most mediocre franchises and made it the worst. "I have relieved Matt Millen of his duties effective immediately," Lions owner William Clay Ford said in a statement Wednesday afternoon. Millen's teams won a league-low 31 games since he took over in 2001, but Ford refused to get rid of him until now. Bill Ford Jr., s ...

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