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Lions QB's Halloween Joke Considered Low, Late Hit

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By LARRY LAGE, The Associated Press

Published: November 1, 2007

ALLEN PARK, Mich. - Detroit Lions quarterback Jon Kitna and his wife dressed up as a naked man and a fast-food drive-through attendant at teammate Mike Furrey's Halloween party, depicting an embarrassing moment for one of the team's assistant coaches.

Now Kitna is getting some flak on local TV and in a newspaper column. Kitna said he was just trying to have fun, but regrets the scrutiny the costumes created.

'If I would've known this, I wouldn't have done it, because I didn't want to try to bring attention to it,' Kitna said Wednesday while surrounded by reporters and television cameras.

Defensive line coach Joe Cullen pleaded no contest to disorderly conduct and guilty to impaired driving after he was arrested twice last year, once in August 2006 after police said he was driving nude through a Wendy's drive-through lane, and a week later when they said he was driving under the influence of alcohol.

Cullen later was sentenced to two years of probation and ordered to attend Alcoholics Anonymous meetings twice a week.

Lions coach Rod Marinelli said Kitna's costume was a nonissue with the team.

'It's Halloween,' Marinelli said. 'I'll leave it at that.'

Cullen said 'no comment' as he walked off the practice field Wednesday, but the team said it asked him if the costume bothered him.

'No, not at all,' Cullen said in a statement released by the team. 'It's in the past.'

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