It was a game with a lot of twists, but Detroit pulled off a miracle, beating the Green Bay Packers Sunday 18-16 at Lambeau Field.
And speaking of twists, fired Lions President Tom Lewand tweeted right after the game:
Amazing win @Lions!! Could not be happier for the Fords, Coach Caldwell, the players, and the entire organization. Congrats!!
— Tom Lewand (@tomlewand) November 15, 2015
It was a strange Sunday.
No one expected the Lions to win before the game began.
But suddenly the team was winning and even the cynical Lions fans had reason to believe an upset was possible.
Not that the Lions didn't do almost everything to give away the victory, including missing two extra points.
Suddenly, near the end of the fourth quarter, Green Bay scored and it was 18-16.
Thankfully for the LIons, the Packers missed the two point conversion.
Ahhh. Relief.
It looked as if it was over.
But nooooo.
The LIons fumbled an onside kick and it looked like Green Bay was going to pull it off.
Green Bay moved up the field, within field goal range.
Then Green Bay blew the field goal and miraculously, the Lions won.
Dave Birkett of the Detroit Free Press wrote:
In the middle of one of the worst seasons in franchise history, the Detroit Lions ended a losing streak that’s haunted them for more than two decades with the most unlikeliest of heroes.
The Lions held Aaron Rodgers and the vaunted Green Bay Packers offense in check most of the game and Crezdon Butler, who signed off the street Saturday as an injury replacement for Rashean Mathis, broke up the potential game-tying two-point conversion as the Lions won at Lambeau Field, 18-16, for the first time since Dec. 15, 1991.
Mike O'Hara, who writes for Lions.com, wrote this:
For this franchise, people in it, fans who support the Detroit Lions – it means everything. The streak that started with a loss in 1992 and all the misery, heartbreak and humiliation that goes with is dead and buried.
It’s in the history books, but it’s dead. Finished. Over.
It’s the first real ray of light for the franchise this year, and whether it leads to a continued turnaround remains to be seen. But for one moment, the Lions had the weight of the world off their shoulders.
They can party like it’s 2015 – not 1991, the last time they beat the Packers on the road.
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YASHINSKY: THE LAST TIME THE LIONS WON IN GREEN BAY . . . (Friday, Nov. 13)
