There were some very good Detroit Lions teams that lost in Wisconsin. There were some very bad ones too. But for 23 years, spanning 24 games, they lost no matter what when they crossed this state’s borders. Then they brought a truly ugly team up to Lambeau Field, and they did the unthinkable.
They won.
Detroit, the laughingstock of the NFL, upset the division-leading Green Bay Packers in a 18-16 thriller Sunday at Lambeau Field. That snaps, at long last, the worst road losing streak against a single team in league history.
The Lions’ last win in Wisconsin occurred on Dec. 25, 1991, when eight of their players weren’t even born yet.
Detroit’s win comes in its first game since the firing of general manager Martin Mayhew and president Tom Lewand. Owner Martha Firestone Ford told the public how embarrassed she was by her club’s unraveling, and told interim general manager Sheldon White his mission was to win, and win now.
Then they went out, and got the win no one saw coming.
Green Bay (6-3) opened the game as a 10.5-point favorite, and immediately carved up Detroit’s porous defense for a 12-play drive. But then a funny thing happened. The Lions (2-7) tightened up, forced a field goal — and then stifled the mighty Aaron Rodgers for the next three quarters
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