"Geez, what's the big deal about a passing quarterback like Matthew Stafford wearing gloves? Nobody complains about Tim Tebow wearing shoes.

Oh, the red flags went up when Stafford -- still wearing those gloves -- threw interceptions on the Lions' first two series Sunday.

But he kind of shot those down with a 77.7% completion rate, 335 passing yards, five touchdown passes, a 121.9 completion rating and, of course, a comeback 49-35 win over Carolina at windless Ford Field.

Early on, though, the glove he's wearing to protect the fractured index finger on his throwing hand again was a story line for Fox, which kept getting shots of Stafford fiddling with it.

(Maybe they brought along their top hand guy, the cameraman who zeroed in on Kenny Rogers' smudge in the '06 World Series.)"