Dave Fleming, in a few weeks, the Detroit Lions will kick off their season.

It should be an exciting one because they are considered contenders in the NFC North.

But I understand there's a very special way that this team came together and

shaped up to become a team. What is it?

Yes, I'm here to reveal the secret that has revitalized the Detroit Lions after half a century.

It's the one, the only, the single exercise that has changed the course of human history,

it is the burpee.

Okay, but Dave, like a lot of athletes do burpees. As you said, it's been around for a century.

Like I was forced to do them in high school field hockey. They are typically not enjoyable.

So why is this special for the Lions?

Yes, no, you're right. And we probably just lost half our audience because everybody,

everybody hates burpees. Like nobody enjoys burpees and it feels like

every single one of us at some point in whether it's like phys ed class or

as an athlete or being punished for being late to something, we've all done and hated burpees.

It's this simple fact of suffering and sweating and bonding together.

It's a ritual that the Lions started when Dan Campbell took over and as cheesy as it sounds,

it seems to be working.

So what does this look like for the Lions? Like how are they incorporating burpees so often

and with such importance?

It kind of went viral the first time they did it and Campbell's first training camp three years ago.

And it's become a ritual where on the very first day of camp, the defense and anybody else

who wants to join in, it's like a buy-in, right? They all do 40 burpees and it's just become this

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